Italian designer and theorist Alessandro Mendini dies

Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, famed for designs including the Proust armchair and the Groninger Museum, has passed away aged 87.
A key figure in the radical design movement of the 1960s, as well as the postmodern movement that followed, Mendini produced influential works of architecture, interior design, furniture and lighting through his 60-year career.
But he was also an important theorist, who served as editor of Italian design magazines Casabella, Modo and Domu