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1957

Casa Ponti in via

Dezza, Milano.

Ponti House in via

Dezza, Milan.

1957

Appartamento Ponti

in via Dezza

a Milano.

Ponti apartment

in via Dezza.

Anni ‘50

La famiglia Ponti

a tavola in via

Dezza, Milano.

Ponti family having

lunch in via Dezza,

Milan.

Gio Ponti

There are fascinating links

between industry and art.

Art has fallen in love with

industry and industry

has joined the category

of intellectual phenomena.

Today most of our everyday

objects are created by

industry and are characterized

by it: so industry produces

style, that’s the way it works

these days.

The lengthy process of researching,

studying and selecting, conducted

in the archives with Ponti’s heirs,

in particular with the curator Salvatore

Licitra, led to remakes of historic items

made by the great designer for private

homes, special projects or small series.

While respecting the originals, the new

additions were, however, produced

industrially, applying the latest

technologies, to bring them

up to date, in line with Molteni&C’s total

living concept and with contemporary

living. The collection, which is enriched

with new additions year by year, includes

furniture that Gio Ponti designed

between 1935 (chair for the first Palazzo

Montecatini in Milan), the 1950s

(bookcase, chest of drawers, small

table, frame and rug for Casa Ponti

in via Dezza in Milan; armchair for

Villa Planchart in Caracas; table for the

Time&Life Auditorium in New York;

occasional table produced in a small

series for Singer&Sons; armchair for

Altamira; seat for motor ships).

Bookcases, chests of drawers,

shelves, armchairs, chairs, small tables,

frames and rugs, numbered and complete

with a certificate of authenticity.

An international success, which confirms

he value of a rediscovered inheritance

and the vitality of the great designer, which

Molteni&C has also promoted with the

“Vivere alla Ponti” roadshow and the film

“Amare Gio Ponti”. Consolidating its relations

of trust with Ponti’s heirs, with a 10-year

worldwide license contract signed in 2017,

Molteni&C produces and remakes the

collection of furniture designed by Gio Ponti.

(Gio Ponti)

The Gio Ponti collection, which

Molteni&C dedicates to the great

designer, was formed in 2012

in partnership with the Gio Ponti

Archives and under the artistic direction

of Studio Cerri & Associati. A tribute

to one of the most complex architects

of the 20th century and an opportunity

to exchange views with history, thereby

renewing attention for the leading figures

of Italian and international architecture.

In a career spanning more than fifty

years, Gio Ponti (Milan, 1891-1979)

founded Domus magazine, lectured

at Milan’s Politecnico University,

painted and designed everything –

buildings, interiors, furniture, objects

and furnishings for his homes.

Designs which, without Molteni&C’s

intervention, would have been lost,

depriving us forever of a legacy that

belongs to Italy’s cultural heritage.

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