This winter, Molteni&C rings in the festive season with a special gold edition of the D.154.2 armchair, celebrating the company's 90th anniversary. The armchair has been customised in gold for the occasion, illustrating a sophisticated idea to welcome friends and family during the festivities.
The D.154.2 armchair is an iconic project part of the Gio Ponti Collection since 2015. It features a welcoming wrap-around form, a rigid polyurethane shell, a soft polyurethane counter-shell, and a cushion, standing as an exemplar of fine Italian craftsmanship and high design standards.
With the agreement signed with the Ponti heirs, which grants worldwide exclusivity for the reissue and commercialization of all furnishings designed by Gio Ponti (except for rights granted to other manufacturers), Molteni&C has launched a program to bring to light the valuable research work carried out by the great master of the 20th century over more than 50 years of activity in various fields – architecture, design, applied arts, and publishing. The reissue project has resulted in a collection of furnishings – models conceived by Ponti as unique pieces or in small series – following an extensive process of research, selection, and prototype study.
The collection, developed in collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives and initially under the artistic direction of Studio Cerri & Associati, includes furniture and accessories designed by Gio Ponti from 1935 to the 1970s, now part of the Molteni&C Heritage Collection.
The armchair was created by Gio Ponti for the Villa Planchart in Caracas in 1954. The Planchart collectors' villa (1953-57) was one of the projects dearest to Gio Ponti. As he wrote in Domus in 1955, 'I dedicated myself heart and soul to designing Villa Planchart, and in it I was at liberty to express my own approach to architecture, both outside and inside.'
Gio Ponti thought of Villa Planchart as a Florentine villa in Caracas, combining elements of his Italian heritage with the Venezuelan environment. He continues: 'Villa Planchart in Caracas is the result of my experiences, following my travels in Latin America in 1953. It derives from my reflections on seeing some minor but very beautiful things by Niemeyer […] and from thinking, by contrast, about Luis Barragán's Pedregal in Mexico City, that is about those huge villas as rooted in the lava rock as this building of mine appears detached from it.'
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