Alchimia @ Bröhan Museum & ADI Design Museum

The Italian group Alchimia revolutionised design worldwide.

In the late 1970’s, this avant-garde collective dared to make a radical break with functionalism and ushered in a new era of design.

Frans Vogelaar was part of Alchimia in 1981-1982.

Alchimia

The Italian group Alchimia revolutionised the design worldwide.
In the late 1970’s, this avant-garde collective dared to make a radical break with functionalism and ushered in a new era of design.
With bright colours, inexpensive materials and a pinch of irony, the designers transformed everyday objects into provocative works of art.
Alchimia’s guiding principle was to counter insensitive mass production with individual and sensual unique pieces – even at the expense of practicality.
Its visionary power inspired an entire generation of designers and made Alchimia a legend in design history.

Members

Paola Albani / Francesca Alinovi / Gian Mario Andreani / Paola Ardissone / Massimo Audiello / Gae Aulenti / Gianfranco Barberi / Benedetta Barzini / Mario Bellini / Giovanna Benzi / Gaston Bertin / Damiano Biella / Donatella Biffi / Achille Bonito Oliva / Pier Carlo Bontempi / Andrea Branzi / Remo Buti / Valerio Castelli / Achille Castiglioni / Piero Castiglioni / Carla Capalbo / Lucia Cappelli / Sergio Cappelli / Stefano Carmi / Carla Ceccariglia / Stefano Casciani / Nives Ciardi / Sandro Chia / Francesco Clemente / Ave e Sandro Colbertaldo / Phoenix Color /Tina Corti / Coop Himmel(b)lau / Massimo Costa / Enzo Cucchi / Riccardo Dalisi / Almerico De Angelis / Nicola De Maria / Johannes Dinnebier / Michele De Lucchi / Marina De Marchi / Margherita Di Girolamo / Giacinto Di Pietrantonio / Claudia Donà / Gianpaolo Fabris / Beatrice Felis / Stefano Fera / Fiorucci Dxing / Piero Gaeta / Maria Teresa Galli / Gabriella Gatti / Giacomo Ghidelli / Anna Gili / Milton Glaser / Michael Graves / Bruno Gregori / Giorgio Gregori / Frank Gross / Adriana Guerriero / Alessandro Guerriero / Walter Garro / Maria Christina Hamel / Claudia Hammers / Reiner Haegele / Angela Hareiter / Hans Hollein / Fulvio Irace / Isia-Firenze Arata / Isozaki / Guido Jannon / Charles Jenks / Eva Kulakowska / Sandra Kessler / Jeremy King / Yumiko Kobayashi / Ugo La Pietra / Anna Lombardi / Marianne Lorenz / Magazzini Criminali / Bepi Maggiori / Vico Magistretti / Giannino Malossi / Enzo Mari / Cristina Marino / Maria Grazia Mattei / Maria Grazia Mazzocchi / Richard Meier / Alessandro Mendini / Davide Mercatali / Mario Merz / Claire Misese / Monique Mizrahil / Nadia Morelli / Massimo Morozzi / Francesca Morpurgo / Bruno Munari / Alex Mocika / Paola Navone / Ugo Nespolo / Occhiomagico / Sinya Okayama / Cecilia Oliva / Padiglione Italia / Mimmo Paladino / Pasquale Palmieri / David Palterer / Ornella Papaleo / Mauro Panzeri / Paolo Pedrizzetti / Lorenza Peregrini / Javier Perez / Massimo Podestà / Gio Ponti / Lisa Licitra Ponti / Paolo Portoghesi / Daniela Puppa / Franco Quadri / Barbara Radice / Franco Raggi / Patrizia Ranzo / Prospero Rasulo / Arturo Reboldi / Pierre Restany / Rosa Maria Rinaldi / Franco Maria Ricci / Aldo Rossi / Cinzia Ruggieri / Jean Rouzaud / Caterina Saban / Silvio San Pietro / Denis Santachiara / Kazuko Sato / Patrizia Scarzella / Fabrizia Scassellati / Luigi Serafini / Marisa Silvagna / Ettore Sottsass / Speciale / Philippe Starck / Frank Stella / Studio Ombra / Studio Stilema / Stanley Tigerman / Oliviero Toscani / Oscar Tusquets / Emilio Tricerri / Barbara Uttini / Bob Venturi / Luigi Veronesi / France Vogelaar / Gerda Vossaert / Wistthorpe / Kazumasa Yamashita / Marco Zanuso jr. / Ferry Zayadi