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7 1989 Papyro, Teatro, Milano.
Heritage Collection
Anni ‘60 Angelo e Carlo Molteni in Birmania per acquistare il legno. Angelo and Carlo Molteni in Burma buying wood.
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 avantgarde, always tradition, hand in hand, the hallmark of quality living.
Anni ‘70 Reparto produzione tranciati, Molteni&C. Veneers production plant, Molteni&C.
