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,...