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Enzo Mari

Enzo Mari (1932 - 2020) was active/lived in Italy.  Enzo Mari is known for Industrial design, painting, sculpture, posters, conceptualism, teaching.

Those We’ve Lost: Enzo Mari, Industrial Designer Who Kept Things Simple, Dies at 88, online obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, October, 2020.

He railed against material excess, consumerism and fame, but made poetic and useful objects that influenced generations of designers. He died of the coronavirus. He was among the postwar generation of industrial designers who made Milan a design capital, and his grumpy pronouncements about design are as well known as his humble and humane objects. 

Enzo Mari, an irascible industrial designer, artist and polemicist who made simple, beautiful objects, including toys and traffic bollards, that delighted generations of Italians and design buffs all over the world, died on Oct. 19 at a hospital in Milan, Italy. He was 88.

The cause was complications of the coronavirus, said Hans Ulrich Obrist, who, with Francesca Giacomelli, curated a major retrospective of his work at the Triennale Design Museum in Mil   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8838 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Enzo Mari

   Enzo Mari  Born:  1932 - Novara, Italy
Died:   2020
Known for:  Industrial design, painting, sculpture, posters, conceptualism, teaching

Those We’ve Lost: Enzo Mari, Industrial Designer Who Kept Things Simple, Dies at 88, online obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, October, 2020.

He railed against material excess, consumerism and fame, but made poetic and useful objects that influenced generations of designers. He died of the coronavirus. He was among the postwar generation of industrial designers who made Milan a design capital, and his grumpy pronouncements about design are as well known as his humble and humane objects. 

Enzo Mari, an irascible industrial designer, artist and polemicist who made simple, beautiful objects, including toys and traffic bollards, that delighted generations of Italians and design buffs all over the world,  ...  Displaying 750 of 8838 characters.

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