Mendini Proust
Emilio Neri Tremolada
Italy, 2017, 7′
Original language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Original language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Synopsis
Why and how did Alessandro Mendini make Proust’s armchair?
From the mid-1970s, Mendini began to think about a “Proust fabric,” a fabric arising from the literary and pictorial inspirations of the French novelist.
In 1978, Proust’s first armchair was created; an object, as Mendini said, that “is not craftsmanship, it is not design, it is not painting, it is not sculpture, but it is the negation of all these things.”
Credits
Directed by Emilio Neri Tremolada
Editing by Neri Sandor
Production design[in]video
With Alessandro Mendini
Sound Reben Aud