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Molteni&C
A wide range of sober and elegant furnishings characterizes Molteni & C., where comfort and high quality standards are the constant reference points. Collaborations with renowned international designers and technological innovation made Molteni&C. a benchmark for the whole furnishings industry. The history of the company began in 1934 when in Giussano the "Arredamenti Angelo Molteni" was founded, a small artisan workshop specialized in the production of furniture. In the ‘40s, the company became one of the national furniture production leaders, with an exponential growth that brought the company to hire more than 60 employees, recruited among the best artisan workers.Read more

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Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was in 1990 the first Italian architect to win the Pritzker prestige, the highest recognition in the field, considered as a Nobel Prize for architecture. Born and lived all his life in Milan, he studied under Piero Portaluppi and took his first steps in the world of architecture, first in the studio of Ignazio Gardella and later in that of Marco Zanuso. His most famous architectures, such as the Monte Amiata residential complex in the Gallaratese district of Milan, the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa or the Teatro del Mondo created as an installation for the Venice Biennale stand out for a rigorous interpretation of postmodernism, played on solids primary geometric volumes. And the same poetics has also been applied to the design of furniture and objects since in the 80s he was convinced by his friend Luca Meda to measure himself in this new field and to inaugurate a fruitful collaboration with the company Molteni & C. His furniture - and even his table accessories, designed for Alessi - reflect a rigorously architectural approach, which makes them almost small domestic monuments.Read more