ALESSANDRO MENDINI (1931) 'because change is perhaps more important than stability, indeterminacy more than certainty, romanticism more than rationality ' mendini says, 'a design is a temporary thing, it is part of the ephemeral vibrations of the apparent or the unknown, where the spiritual design prevails over the functional ... decorationsdisappear as fast as they arrive, and in their fleeting existence they hold a morbid fascination for us. they transfuse energy and tension into the most arid structures of our everyday existence.'