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Chair

Gio Ponti, 1935 - 2012

"We spend most of our time at work and so the wor­king environment needs to be a very suitable, at­tractive and civil space" [Gio Ponti]. The Montecatini chair was designed between 1935 and 1938 for the first Palazzo Montecatini in Milan. For this building Ponti designed everything, the archi­tecture, the furnishings, and even the tubes of pneu­matic mail systems.

Design Gio Ponti, 1935 - 2012

Molteni&C produced a remake of the chair in 2012 in two variants - in polished aluminium and with leather-covered seat and back like the original.

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Gio Ponti

Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century.
Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas.

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Gio Ponti

“[...] The majority of the objects in our lives are created and characterised by industry [...]”

Gio Ponti