Andrea Branzi obituary

Architect and designer who was part of a radical Italian movement in the 1960s and 70s that rejected mass productionAndrea Branzi, who has died aged 84, was the last of a generation of Italian architects and designers that made their country the world’s leading centre for design. The art curator Germano Celant coined the term “radical design” to describe the work of Branzi and his friends Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, even before he had identified the arte povera move