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Molteni is the only internationally acknowledged independent Industrial Group with a great tradition, combining collaboration with the most important designers, and a constant investment in research and technological development in order to provide its products with a quality that lasts in time.
Corporate Compound
A space that conveys the Molteni identity. It is the place, physical and virtual, where to live a total and immersive experience of the design reality, in every aspect – historical, cultural, design, productive and commercial – including the showroom and the factory as well, which are fully covered by a complete visit.
Corporate Compound | Spazio QallaM
Space of representation for the topic of Quality, designed in 2006 by Patricia Urquiola, it won a Menzione d’onore at the XXIII ADI Premio Compasso d’Oro.
Corporate Compound | Spazio QallaM
This is a dynamic space, a place of vision and inspiration for those who share the core values of design culture.
The historical Archive also plays a key part in the Group’s cultural strategy, as a point of reference for conserving and promoting business culture. The history of the Company and of its key players is entrusted to iconographic materials, products and machinery, as well as technical, administrative and commercial documents.
Industria 4.0
Molteni&C, that has always made innovation its founding value, has embraced and implemented the cues and opportunities arising from the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the new Industry 4.0 project.
Industria 4.0
A process that will lead to increasingly automated and interconnected industrial production, optimizing production systems designed to achieve the targeted use of raw materials and advanced production cycles
Galleria di Arte Moderna di Milano, 2015
Molteni&C and GAM – Milan’s Galleria di Arte Moderna –present 80!Molteni, an exhibition showcasing, for the first time, 80 years’ experience, quality and innovation on the part of the company.
505 UP System — Nicola Gallizia
Marteen seating system — Vincent Van Duysen
Marteen seating system — Vincent Van Duysen
Round D.154.5 armchair — Gio Ponti
Hector Night — Vincent Van Duysen
Hector Night — Vincent Van Duysen
Round D.154.5 armchair — Gio Ponti
“A long ride, with a few obstacles and many challenges, from 1934 to the present. And the feeling that it is never enough... No, "knowledge" is not enough anymore, but we have a magnificent obsession for quality every day and in every detail.”
The Molteni&C|Dada style has always been related to the protagonists of the world of architecture. Great masters of present times who design cities, spaces, interiors and furnishings, such as Aldo Rossi, Jean Nouvel, Foster + Partners, Michele De Lucchi, to name but a few.
The narrative project for Casa Molteni&C|Dada 2021, designed by our creative director Vincent Van Duysen, is intended as a tribute to two great protagonists of one of the most creative seasons of Italian architecture and design. Two figures who were simultaneously, but with their own independent languages, interpreters of the Modern Movement that started with the revolution of Rationalism: Ignazio Gardella and Carlo Scarpa.
505 UP System
design Nicola Gallizia
Piroscafo bookshelf
design Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda
505 UP System
design Nicola Gallizia
Ribbon
design Vincent Van Duysen
Marteen
design Vincent Van Duysen
Marteen
design Vincent Van Duysen
Margou
design Vincent Van Duysen
Tea
design Jasper Morrison
Ratio
design Vincent Van Duysen
505 UP Sideboard
design Nicola Gallizia
Azul
design Nicola Gallizia
More than 60 years after the original idea, Round (D.154.5) was reborn thanks to the Heritage Collection reissue project by Molteni&C, in collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives.
The project name, Round D.154.5, comes from the rounded shape of the seat and backrests, also referred to as the ‘soap bar’.
Round D.154.5 is also referred to as ‘Otto Pezzi’ (Eight Pieces) in the Ponti/Fornaroli/Rosselli study. A totally new product, an industrial design, thought for a world where we talk about assembly, ease of production.
There are eight pieces that make up the chair: backrest, seat, two curved plywood elements and four legs, which screw into the seat to hold the whole thing together.
Full production began in 1956/1957 and it was officially presented at the 11th Milan Triennale in 1957 (Feal Pavilion), along with other innovative Ponti furnishings, in a limited number of examples
Characterized by avantgarde materials and technologies, such as the Vipla for the upholstery.
Gio Ponti was very fond of this chair and often used it to furnish his architectural projects such as the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm (1957); the Parco dei Principi Hotel in Sorrento(1960); the villa Planchart (1955) and the villa Arreaza/Diamantina(1956), to mention a few.
Molteni&C offers Round D.154.5 featuring a wooden structure of multi-layered ash and black chrome or brushed brass feet.
The Round D.154.5 armchair can be covered with all textiles and leathers of the Molteni&C. collection.
As with all the projects in the collection, the careful study of drawings, photos and period materials has made it possible to faithfully reproduce the Round Armchair
“The Round armchair was initially conceived by Gio Ponti in 1954. At that time, the design of this armchair was holding together all the energy, positivity and enthusiasm of the following decade."
- Salvatore Licitra
1956 Villa Arreaza Caracas, Venezuela Interni Interiors © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1956 Villa Arreaza Caracas, Venezuela Interni Interiors © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1956 Villa Arreaza Caracas, Venezuela Interni Interiors © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1957 Italian Cultural Institute Stockholm Photo Luciano Romano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1957 Italian Cultural Institute Stockholm Photo Luciano Romano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1957 Italian Cultural Institute Stockholm Photo Luciano Romano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1960 Alitalia Milano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1960 Alitalia Milano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
1957 XI Triennale Milano © Gio Ponti Archives Archivio storico Eredi Gio Ponti
A collection that looks to the future, an artistic and cultural heritage signed by great masters such as Gio Ponti, Werner Blaser, Yasuhiko Itoh as well as Afra and Tobia Scarpa.
D.154.2
The armchair, designed for one of the projects closest to Gio Ponti’s heart, the villa of the Planchart collectors in Caracas (1953-57), it is part of the Gio Ponti Collection.
D.153.1
Designed in 1953, the D.153.1 armchair is part of the furniture of Gio Ponti’s private house in via Dezza in Milan. It features a brass structure, cover in bicolor white-blue leather or “Punteggiato” fabric
D.859.1
The D.859.1 table, designed primarily as a meeting table for up to ten people, stands out not only for its impressive size—over 3,60 meters long—but especially for its simple yet refined design. The legs are notable for their fine-membered modernity, creating a trapezoidal single-span bridge upon which the large tapered top conveys the idea of aerodynamics.
D.156.3
Designed by Gio Ponti and produced for Altamira, an American company founded by the nephew of the Spaniard De Cuevas, was displayed in the company’s showroom in New York, along with furniture by Ico Parisi, Franco Albini, Carlo De Carli, Ignazio Gardella and others, chosen from among the most representative exhibitors at the 10th Milan Triennale.
D.151.4
Always passionate about nautical furnishings, Gio Ponti gained direct experience in four ocean liners and two cruise ships upgraded or built from scratch after the war, between 1949 and 1951: the Conte Grande, Africa, Oceania, Conte Biancamano, Andrea Doria and Giulio Cesare. Ponti designed this easy chair with slight variants for these ships.
MHC.3 MISS
Miss chair, designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa in 1986.. The form is linked to a system of soft, unbroken, linear rhythms
D.552.2
Architecture, a pan virtuosity, acrobatic proportions and an intersection of joints. An infinite table which is a geometric dialogue between the glass and rosewood – lightness and abstraction distilled.
D.555.1
From Gio Ponti’s house, located in via Dezza in Milan, the small table D.555.1, designed in 1954-1955, is produced by Molteni&C based on the original drawings from the ponti archives.
MHC.2
MHC.2 is a re-edition of the bookcase prototype designed in 1959 by Yasuhiko Itoh. Made in curved wood, a complex process for that time period, it won an award at the 3rd edition of the Selettiva competition in Cantù del 1959. This piece is both elegant and refined.
D.357.1 - D.357.2
Designed in 1956-1957, the bookcase is part of the furniture of Gio Ponti’s private house in Via Dezza in Milan. It is part of the Molteni&C Gio Ponti Collection.
Made from shaped multi-layered material with elm veneer, it is available in the versions with or without applied mirror.
The Molteni Group has always placed great emphasis on the concepts of quality and durability of its products as a contribution to environmental sustainability
At Molteni&C innovation is our founding value and we pursue the culture of the most advanced industrial production and embrace the technical evolution.
2021 has seen the introduction of two new fabrics in collaboration with Kvadrata, and a new eco-sustainable upholstery.
Reflect, new fabric in partnership with Kvadrat
The project offers the same 23 colours in a 100% recycled yarn from PET bottles.
Eco-sustainable Upholstery
Exclusively for the Paul sofa system,t he new fibre is synthetic, in 100 % recycled and biodegradable polyester.
Reflect, new fabric in partnership with Kvadrat
The project offers the same 23 colours in a 100% recycled yarn from PET bottles.
Reflect, new fabric in partnership with Kvadrat
The project offers the same 23 colours in a 100% recycled yarn from PET bottles.
Eco-sustainable Upholstery
Exclusively for the Paul sofa system,t he new fibre is synthetic, in 100 % recycled and biodegradable polyester.
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