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In the beginning there was a pencil
Drawing the design
10 – 13 April 2019, 10.00 – 22.00.
Inauguration 10 April at 18.30 hours
at the Archivio Giovanni Sacchi
via Luigi Granelli 1,
Sesto San Giovanni
Design always starts with a sketch, the tool
often a pencil. But is that still true today?
Among their objects and tools, design museum
archives preserve a wealth of sketches, technical
drawings, preparatory drawings, executive designs,
and notes made by designers throughout the process
that leads up to a new product. During Milan Design
Week 2019, the Circuito Lombardo dei Musei
del Design presents an exhibition highlighting
the centrality of drawing to design at a time
of extreme digitalization in which the expressive
quality of graphic design has been relegated
to second place. The Molteni Museum is taking
part in the project through Luca Meda’s exceptional
Capotavola table design (1988).
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M&C issue 13-2019
collaborators
Johanna Agerman Ross
Zara Arshad
Cristiana Colli
Caroline Corbetta
Francesca Gregson
Peter Hefti
Fulvio Irace
Salvatore Licitra
Francesca Molteni
Debika Ray
Oli Stratford
editorial consultants
Johanna Agerman Ross
Disegno Works
Chris Jones
Disegno Works
Oli Stratford
Disegno Works
translations
Maxima Service
graphic design
ma:design
Massimiliano Patrignani
Monica Zaffini
printing
Adda Officine Grrafiche
Litopat S.p.A.
thanks to
Arflex
Vincent Van Duysen
Ron Gilad
Gio Ponti Archives
MUSE Factory of Projects
Neri & Hu
Jean Nouvel
Renzo Piano
Yabu Pushelberg
printed
April 2019
M&C is a magazine
registred at Monza Court
on March 7, 2013 n°10
chief editor
Cristiana Colli
#MolteniGroup
Newmuseum(S)
Stories of Company Archives
and Museums
The identity, history, values and challenges
of corporate archives and museums of the
present and future: this is the subject to which
Museimpresa, the Italian association of corporate
museums and archives, has dedicated the new
documentary film Newmuseum(s). Stories of company
archives and museums, directed by Francesca Molteni.
The film focuses on the particular nature of company
archives and museums in order to understand how
an archive/museum links to companies today –
what values should they reflect, which instruments
and languages should they adopt in order to create
meaningful institutions that can converse with
contemporary culture and with international
audiences. For the story of this changing identity,
the producers have interviewed museum directors,
curators and experts on the subject, but also
architects, artists, musicians and creatives who
have contributed to projects for company museums.
Gio Ponti Magnified
On the occasion of the Tutto Ponti,
Gio Ponti archi-designer exhibition at the Musée
des Arts Décoratifs, Richard Ginori has created
a new installation in the Paris museum’s Hall
des Maréchaux. The installation is a homage
to Ponti, emphasising his most iconic motifs
and underlining the profound link between art
and Manifattura Ginori’s creativity. It is Gio Ponti
magnified. Richard Ginori’s never before seen work
was exhibited with the cooperation of important
partners such as Molteni&C, provider of furnishings
from the Heritage Collection, which is dedicated
to Ponti, such as the D.552.2 coffee table and the
D.153.1 and D.154.2 armchairs.
Molteni&C with MuseumCity
at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Molteni&C has renewed its support for cultural
sites, joining an important project promoted by
MuseumCity, the Milanese non-profit association
dedicated to enhancing the city’s great museums.
Muse Dialoganti is a project designed to offer
a moment’s rest and contemplation in Milan’s most
prestigious museums, enabling visitors to enjoy
a more direct relationship with the works on display.
Eleven museums for eleven seats, selected by Studio
Palomba e Serafini, donated by the most prestigious
maisons of Italian design, and placed in front
of a particular artwork selected by the museums
themselves. Molteni&C has been chosen by
the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, custodian of one of the
world’s most important collections of Renaissance art,
including works such as Caravaggio’s Cesto di frutta,
Raffaello’s preparatory Cartoon for the Scuola di
Atene, Tiziano’s Adorazione dei Magi, Botticelli’s
Madonna del Padiglione, Jan Brueghel’s magnificent
Vasi di fiori, and, last but not least, Il Musico by
the genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci.
The 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death
is this year, with a series of major exhibitions
planned throughout 2019.
Design Stories in Vicenza
There has been great success for the “Storie di Design
a Vicenza 2018” initiative, promoted by ALA
Assoarchitetti and Icona Arredamenti, in partnership
with Vicenza City Council, the Order of Architects
of the Province of Vicenza and the Bertoliana Civic
Library. The programme featured five international
design exhibitions, in parallel with conferences and
debates, held in the heart of the old town for Vicenza’s
design week. Protagonists at Palazzo Cordellina,
Basilica Palladiana and Loggia del Capitaniato
included the great masters of 20th-century design,
such as Vico Magistretti and Gio Ponti, as well as
top international contemporary designers including
Roberto Palomba and Vincent Van Duysen. Key
players at the event were Molteni&C, Vitra and Dada,
with proceedings followed by a large group of design
professionals and enthusiasts.
Molteni&C and Dada partners
of the Jaguar Land Rover
Winter Tour 2018/19
This year, the new “Mountain home” of two iconic
British automobile brands was Courmayeur,
a celebrated tourist location at the foot of Mont Blanc.
Here, Jaguar and Land Rover models were the key
attractions, with a winter lounge set up to receive
guests in the Chalet de l’Ange. Designed as a real
home, the lounge developed over two floors and
was furnished to provide a warm and welcoming
atmosphere in partnership with Molteni&C and Dada.
