Molteni&C presents its first outdoor furniture collection

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For its inaugural outdoor selection, Molteni&C’s artistic director Vincent Van Duysen presents furniture that is both equally visually expressive and highly purposeful, bringing the brand’s signature attributes of fashion and craftsmanship to exterior environments. Curating primary patterns by Foster + Partners and Ron Gilad, and rediscovering archive parts from Gio Ponti and Luca Meda, Van Duysen delved into the rich custom of Italian layout for inspiration, the assortment defined by a sense of savoir-faire and a regard for heritage.

‘I pursued the idea of softness and wellbeing, of organic playfulness in an architectural eyesight of the home furniture,’ clarifies Van Duysen. ‘I was inspired by modernism to recall the idea of permeability and transparency involving indoor and outside spaces. That personal link with light and character.’

Molteni&C Out of doors Collection

Molteni&C’s outdoor variety encompasses a number of ideas that exist in a singular, natural vision. The Landmark Collection characteristics a reissue of famed designer Luca Meda’s traditional ‘Palinfrasca’ couch. Vincent Van Duysen’s Timeout Collection includes outside necessities that reference the easy types of modernist architecture, although the Heritage Selection functions a revival of two of Gio Ponti’s most beloved armchairs.

Woven seating and metal side table

‘Palinfrasca’ seating and ‘Regent’ facet table by Vincent Van Duysen

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Tying the collections with each other are new rugs by Van Duysen, Nicola Gallizia and Marta Ferri, described by refined designs, rich fabrics and heat tones.

And eventually, there are two exceptional standalone items from Foster + Partners and Ron Gilad, while Marta Ferri also edited a sophisticated primary outdoor textile collection.

Outdoor furniture in garden, by Molteni & C

‘D.150.5’ chaise by Gio Ponti and ‘Regent’ table by Vincent Van Duysen

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The narrative is a conversation among supplies. The Landmark Collection’s sumptuous use of solid teak enhances the strong steel profiles of the Timeout Selection.

Outdoor chair and table

‘D.154.2’ armchair by Gio Ponti and ‘Panna Cotta’ table by Ron Gilad

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In the meantime, the cement complete of Foster + Partners’ parabolic-shaped ‘Arc’ robustly contrasts the perforated iron top and lava-stone foundation of Ron Gilad’s ‘Panna Cotta’ desk. Woven motifs wend their way throughout the vary the Timeout Collection’s interlaced polypropylene rope aspects and the ‘Palinfrasca’ sofa’s banded woven backrest, made of teak or EVA polyurethane, are impressed by classic basket earning.

An outside kitchen

Molteni & C outdoor kitchen

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The collection is accomplished by an outside kitchen area, also developed by Van Duysen. ‘Conviviality and sophistication are the keywords I wanted to attribute to this outside kitchen,’ claims the resourceful director. ‘[It’s] furniture with a straightforward yet structured experience, exactly where features and sophistication coexist to make modern-day style.’ The Helios outdoor kitchen combines Italian craftsmanship with progressive, outdoor technological know-how and exterior-friendly finishes. Its clear, demanding lines and discreetly monolithic impression make it possible for it to be combined with both the products and finishes of the Landmark and Timeout Collections.

A extensive array of textures – from a substance that resembles pure stone to ceramic and metal – enable for in depth customisation, creating it suitable for diverse models and environments. Colours coordinate with the out of doors ranges’ solid palette of elements. Organic tones these as rust, desert yellow, earth brown, olive eco-friendly, and anthracite signify items from disparate collections live quickly with each other.

Organic products and timeless charm

Wooden arm of chair

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With Molteni&C sustaining a steadfast commitment to sustainability, the home furnishings in the collection is predominantly mono-materials and sourced from certified offer chains. Areas 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, come from the crushing of recycled glass from Tv set and Pc monitors.

‘The technological innovation is slicing-edge but concealed, the products are all-natural and timeless,’ says Van Duysen. ‘Characteristics that are intrinsic to the brand identification: the thorough craftsmanship of the manufacturing, the sophistication of the aspects, and the natural beauty of the particular person objects that encapsulates the classes of the wonderful architects and designers it has interpreted. The new outside proposal reveals a graphic existence and a perception of timelessness inherent in the Molteni&C brand DNA.’

Arc table and outdoor rug

‘Arc’ table 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 collection is now offered to see at its immersive London showroom on Brompton Highway. Site visitors can expertise the home furniture items and see how know-how and layout, tradition and non-conformity, top quality and great structure operate alongside one another to produce the components of genuinely subtle fashion.

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Outdoor seating in garden setting