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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.
1989
Papyro, Teatro,
Milano.
Anni ‘70
Reparto produzione
tranciati, Molteni&C.
Veneers production
plant, Molteni&C.
Anni ‘60
Angelo e Carlo
Molteni in Birmania
per acquistare
il legno.
Angelo and Carlo
Molteni in Burma
buying wood.