Molteni&C presents its first outdoor furniture collection
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For its inaugural outside collection, Molteni&C’s artistic director Vincent Van Duysen provides furnishings that is both equally visually expressive and remarkably practical, bringing the brand’s signature attributes of fashion and craftsmanship to exterior environments. Curating original styles by Foster + Partners and Ron Gilad, and rediscovering archive parts from Gio Ponti and Luca Meda, Van Duysen delved into the wealthy custom of Italian layout for inspiration, the assortment outlined by a sense of savoir-faire and a regard for heritage.
‘I pursued the idea of softness and wellbeing, of natural and organic playfulness in an architectural eyesight of the home furnishings,’ clarifies Van Duysen. ‘I was impressed by modernism to remember the thought of permeability and transparency between indoor and outdoor areas. That intimate relationship with mild and character.’
Molteni&C Outdoor Selection
Molteni&C’s outdoor selection encompasses quite a few principles that exist in a singular, natural vision. The Landmark Collection functions a reissue of famed designer Luca Meda’s vintage ‘Palinfrasca’ couch. Vincent Van Duysen’s Timeout Selection includes outside essentials that reference the clean types of modernist architecture, although the Heritage Assortment functions a revival of two of Gio Ponti’s most beloved armchairs.
‘Palinfrasca’ seating and ‘Regent’ side table by Vincent Van Duysen
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Tying the collections together are new rugs by Van Duysen, Nicola Gallizia and Marta Ferri, described by subtle patterns, wealthy fabrics and heat tones.
And lastly, there are two outstanding standalone parts from Foster + Associates and Ron Gilad, while Marta Ferri also edited a refined primary outside textile selection.
‘D.150.5’ chaise by Gio Ponti and ‘Regent’ table by Vincent Van Duysen
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The narrative is a discussion concerning products. The Landmark Collection’s luxurious use of good teak complements the strong steel profiles of the Timeout Selection.
‘D.154.2’ armchair by Gio Ponti and ‘Panna Cotta’ table by Ron Gilad
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In the meantime, the cement end of Foster + Partners’ parabolic-formed ‘Arc’ robustly contrasts the perforated iron best and lava-stone base of Ron Gilad’s ‘Panna Cotta’ desk. Woven motifs wend their way through the selection the Timeout Collection’s interlaced polypropylene rope specifics and the ‘Palinfrasca’ sofa’s banded woven backrest, created of teak or EVA polyurethane, are impressed by traditional basket building.
An out of doors kitchen
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The selection is done by an outside kitchen, also designed by Van Duysen. ‘Conviviality and sophistication are the key terms I desired to attribute to this out of doors kitchen,’ says the artistic director. ‘[It’s] furniture with a very simple still structured sense, where functionality and sophistication coexist to develop modern-day design and style.’ The Helios outside kitchen brings together Italian craftsmanship with progressive, outside engineering and exterior-helpful finishes. Its clean up, arduous traces and discreetly monolithic influence permit it to be blended with each the materials and finishes of the Landmark and Timeout Collections.
A huge array of textures – from a materials that resembles all-natural stone to ceramic and metal – make it possible for for intensive customisation, producing it suited for various variations and environments. Colours coordinate with the out of doors ranges’ robust palette of materials. Organic and natural tones this kind of as rust, desert yellow, earth brown, olive inexperienced, and anthracite imply parts from disparate collections stay simply jointly.
Natural products and timeless appeal
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With Molteni&C sustaining a steadfast motivation to sustainability, the home furniture in the collection is predominantly mono-substance and sourced from licensed source chains. Pieces are replaceable and upholstery is recyclable. The vitreous inserts of the Etna lava stone, made use of for the oven-baked enamelling of the surfaces, arrive from the crushing of recycled glass from Television set and Laptop monitors.
‘The know-how is chopping-edge but hidden, the materials are normal and timeless,’ suggests Van Duysen. ‘Characteristics that are intrinsic to the brand identity: the cautious craftsmanship of the manufacturing, the sophistication of the details, and the natural beauty of the specific objects that encapsulates the classes of the wonderful architects and designers it has interpreted. The new out of doors proposal reveals a graphic presence and a sense of timelessness inherent in the Molteni&C manufacturer DNA.’
‘Arc’ desk by Foster + Companions, ‘Green Point’ chair, by Vincent Van Duysen, and ‘Palma’ rug by Nicola Gallizia
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Molteni&C’s inaugural outdoor selection is now out there to check out at its immersive London showroom on Brompton Road. Site visitors can practical experience the household furniture parts and see how technological know-how and design and style, tradition and non-conformity, high quality and good structure perform jointly to create the elements of genuinely sophisticated style.
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‘Palinfrasca’ couch and ‘Golden Gate’ desk by Vincent Van Duysen. ‘Panna Cotta’ aspect desk by Ron Gilad
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‘Guell’ loungers and ‘Boulonge’ baskets by Vincent Van Duysen
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