Proust armchair designed by Alessandro Mendini for Magis mass-produced in plastic.
The Proust armchair designed by Alessandro Mendini in 1978 has been revisited now in mass-produced plastic that debuted at the Milan 50th furniture fair.
Originally created as a rebuke to austere modernism while redefining design’s dualism of good and bad taste, the chair is an icon of 20th century Postmodern design.
Inspired by the French writer Marcel Proust’s theory of continual flux, the past is as relevant as the present. Reviving decoration and historicism, the Proust chair has been interpreted using Impressionist brush strokes with its rococo detailing.
The armchair’s timing of its current relaunch just may have the same influence as the original on design’s current modernistic mood.
Proust armchair designed by Alessandro Mendini.
Proust Geometrica armchair by Alessandro Mendini
