{"id":440826,"date":"2026-05-23T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440826\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:40:11","slug":"the-exhibition-on-alessandro-mendini-transforms-a-lake-maggiore-villa-into-his-imaginary-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440826\/","title":{"rendered":"The exhibition on Alessandro Mendini transforms a Lake Maggiore villa into his imaginary \u201crooms\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>130 works spanning the entire career of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domusweb.it\/en\/biographies\/alessandro-mendini.html?_gl=1*1au2pnm*_gcl_au*MTU2MzAzNTc3NC4xNzc2MjU2NzI1*_ga*OTk5Mjc2NDIzLjE3NzYyNTY3MjY.*_ga_TKPHQ83E3D*czE3Nzk0NTUxMzkkbzkxJGcxJHQxNzc5NDYzMzAwJGo1OSRsMCRoMTQ4NDM3Mzk2OQ..\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alessandro Mendini<\/a> \u2014 from his early years in Milan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domusweb.it\/en\/design\/gallery\/2022\/09\/07\/when-design-is-critical-the-legacy-of-radical-design-through-20-projects.html?_gl=1*1au2pnm*_gcl_au*MTU2MzAzNTc3NC4xNzc2MjU2NzI1*_ga*OTk5Mjc2NDIzLjE3NzYyNTY3MjY.*_ga_TKPHQ83E3D*czE3Nzk0NTUxMzkkbzkxJGcxJHQxNzc5NDYzMzAwJGo1OSRsMCRoMTQ4NDM3Mzk2OQ..\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radical Design<\/a> movement to his projects for Alessi and his postmodern experiments of the 1990s and 2000s \u2014 are now on view at Villa Giulia, the historic 19th-century residence overlooking Lake Maggiore in Verbania.<\/p>\n<p>Running until September 27, 2026, the exhibition is one of the largest retrospectives ever dedicated to the designer, architect, artist, theorist, and two-time editor-in-chief of Domus, widely regarded as one of the most influential creative figures of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 130 works spanning the entire career of Alessandro Mendini \u2014 from his early years in Milan\u2019s Radical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-440826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}