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Heritage Collection

Heritage Collection,

a forward-looking collection,

an artistic and cultural

heritage, otherwise lost,

still to be enhanced.

A duty of choice, a legacy

to be shared. And a desire

to rediscover, in the history

of Molteni&C, traces

of a magnificent obsession,

quality. From 1934 to the

present day.

The Gio Ponti collection, successfully

re-made since 2012, the Molteni80!

exhibition, the creation of the historical

archive and the Molteni Museum,

within the Molteni Compound,

provided the opportunity to rediscover

forgotten treasures and to start from

the beginning again, from the origins

of modernity. In this way traces

emerged of a past that turned out to

be contemporary. Intuitions, directions

to be explored, experimentation

towards design. Artisan know-how

to be interpreted with technological

innovations. A noble material to

be fashioned, wood, for new great

classics. The first prototypes of modern

furniture. Unique pieces, designed for

competitions or for special projects, to be

reproduced on an industrial scale and in

numbered editions, signed by Gio Ponti,

Werner Blaser, Yasuhiko Itoh as well as

Afra and Tobia Scarpa. Great masters,

associates and travelling companions

of Molteni&C, by vocation, all over the

world. Architects, such as the six Pritzker

prize winners – Herzog&De Meuron,

Aldo Rossi, Jean Nouvel, Álvaro Siza,

Renzo Piano and Norman Foster – who

chose the Molteni Group to realize their

most daring designs. Always avant-

garde, always tradition, hand in hand,

the hallmark of quality living.

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1989

Papyro, Teatro,

Milano.

Anni ‘60

Angelo e Carlo

Molteni in Birmania

per acquistare

il legno.

Angelo and Carlo

Molteni in Burma

buying wood.

Anni ‘70

Reparto produzione

tranciati, Molteni&C.

Veneers production

plant, Molteni&C.