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Rodolfo Dordoni designs Beds, Chairs, Tables, Wardrobes.
Rodolfo Dordoni is polite and elegant, like his designs, which range from art direction to industrial design, from refurbishments to exhibition and showroom fittings.
After graduating in Architecture at the Milan Politecnico in 1979, Dordoni started working in the world of design. He specialised in image strategy, from product to communication. He has been Art Director of firms like Artemide, for its glass collection, Cappellini, FontanaArte (for its furnishings), Foscarini and Minotti. He is also behind the shop concepts for Anteprima and Breil.
Despite his passion for communication strategies, Dordoni has never stopped designing furniture and furnishing accessories for large Italian and international firms.
Dordoni Architects also develops projects for homes, residential complexes, industrial and commercial spaces such as offices, shops and showrooms, restaurants, hotels, boats, as well as fittings and fair stands of different commercial areas.
For Molteni&C. he has designed various collections of furniture, from the small armchairs Lyz to the table Leaf, from the container system Look to the Lean chairs. His matching element furnishing systems are particularly important: Glide is a series of sliding panels, dividing elements for separating the various areas of the home.Stack is a wardrobe with an articulated system of drawers and shelves which slide up and down vertical runners and mean that each individual can personalise wardrobe space.–
Nicola Gallizia designs Tables
Born in Milan, Nicola Gallizia attended the Architecture Faculty at the Milan Politecnico. From 1990 to 1999 he worked with Luca Meda as assistant for the image and products for Molteni&C. and Dada, companies for which he still works as image consultant and product developer.
He has been art director and designer for the Camera group since 1999.
For Penta he designed the lamps Wood (2000), China (2002) and Jei-Jei (2004).
He has been working with Pitti Living since 2001 on fittings for exhibitions.
In 2003 he took over responsibility for the image of Molteni&C., with particular attention to the new graphics project and the product catalogues, from their conception to the stand fittings for major fairs, and the design and fitting out of several stores.
He designed the collection Domino for Molteni&C in 2004.
In 2005 he opened the studio CZ36 in Milan, from where he designs and creates interiors.
Ferruccio Laviani designs Sofas and armchairs
rIrony, playfulness and passion for design. A pupil of the great Italian design teacher Achille Castiglioni, Ferruccio Lariani represents a new direction in design.
Pietro Ferruccio Laviani was born in Cremona in 1960. After graduating in Architecture at the Milan Politecnico, he became a partner of the De Lucchi studio in 1986.
He was exhibition designer for “Technique discretes. Le design du mobilier italien 1980-1990” at the Louvre and worked with Memphis, taking part in the “12 nuovi Memphis” collection.
In 1991 he started working with Kartell as Artistic Director, and then with Flos, Tisettanta, Moroso, Piombo and Pandora Design. In 1997 he worked with Achille Castiglioni on the important show dedicated to Giò Ponti and Vico Magistretti. In the same year he designed the new De Padova image for the showroom in Corso Venezia, Milan. 2001 saw the start of a partnership with the fashion designers Dolce&Gabbana, for whom he designed the corners and the interiors of their new headquarters in Via Goldoni, Milan.
From 1999 to the present, he has worked with Dada on the kitchens Quadrante, Vela Quadra and Hi-Line. For Molteni&C. Laviani has designed the seating systemHi-Bridge and Hi-Cove, the brand name store in Milan and the fittings for the 2006 Furniture Exhibition. With Luca Meda, he designed other important pieces for the Molteni collection such as the container series Convivio and the Freestyle seating system.
Luca Meda designs Chairs, Tables
Luca Meda is an important name in the history of Italian industry, and has contributed to the design culture of the Molteni Group with great passion. An example of harmonic partnership between creativity and business, art and industry. Almost a paradox for a designer who loves design and used the pencil more than any other instrument to describe and reinvent reality.
Luca Meda was born in Chiavari by chance – his family spent their holidays there. He grew up and studied in Milan, graduating from the Brera Art School. He loved the centre of Milan and its urban landscape. Its monuments, its anonymous houses, the near invisible interiors and the good quality objects inside them all contributed to his emotional growth and development.
He then studied in Germany, at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, one of the most prestigious international design schools, founded in 1954 by Inge Scholl-Aicher and directed by Max Bill.
His encounter with Aldo Rossi is a crucial moment. Together they opened a studio and took part in numerous competitions, such as that for the Contemporary History Museum in Milan.
Since the late seventies, Luca Meda has been working on design and mass produced series. His main partnership is with the Molteni Group.
His designs for Molteni&C. include a series of furnishings which are now considered icons, such as the Piroscafo bookcase designed with Aldo Rossi, the Zim and Hochairs, the armchairs Hi Cove and Vivette and the 505 programme. Meda has also created furnishing systems such as Pass, which allows the client to match simple and elegant open containers, sideboards, bookcases, benches and shelves, and909, a flexible system of chests of drawers.
Jean Nouvel designs Tables, Sofas and armchairs
Initially Jean Nouvel dreamed of becoming a painter, but in the end he chose architecture, for him “visual art, production and imagination”. Jean Nouvel is the last of the existentialists, black is his colour, cinema his inspiration. He is an architect of the present moment.
Jean Nouvel opened his studio after graduating from the National School of Fine Art in Paris in 1972. His turning point arrived in 1981, when he won the competition for the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Since then he has received a number of awards, such as the Grand Prix National d’Architecture, the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Leone d’oro from the Venice Biennial. In 2008 he won the prestigious Pritzker Award, the ‘Nobel prize’ in the field of architecture.
The aim of the Atelier Jean Nouvel is to develop an “architecture of design”, to design objects which are suited to the spirit of the age. Nouvel’s first approach to design stemmed from the necessity of creating objects for his own architecture: the Less tables for example, produced by Molteni & C., were created for the Paris headquarters of the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain. At times it is the furniture which takes on the lines of an architectural structure, becoming almost a miniature building, like the Graduate bookcase, a system of shelves in wood and aluminium supported by a complex system of invisible hooks. The house becomes an urban landscape, defined by simple, linear, minimal architectonic structures.
But Jean Nouvel has never forgotten his passion for art, still visible in his design: the sofa SKiN is a “sculpted” furnishing, where decoration becomes structure. Like his latest Parisian creation, the Quai Branly Museum.
Arik Levy designs Beds, Tables, Sofas and armchairs
Arik Levy, born 1963 in Tel Aviv, Israel, studied industrial design at Art Center College of Design in La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland. He taught at the École Nationale Supérieur de Création Industrielle / Les Ateliers, Paris, and led design workshops at various design schools in Europe. At the same time he created stage sets for modern dance performances at the Grand Theatre in Geneva, for the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Finnish National Ballet and the BatSheva Dance Centre in Israel. In 1997, he co-founded the firm “L design” with Pippo Lionni.
Aldo Rossi designsChairs
“Perhaps I’m a snob, but the more I travel the world, the more I feel that I’m a citizen of it, and the more I revert to a traditional sense of things. Your home country is the gate to your home and the gate to the world”. Aldo Rossi and his architecture, mystery and traditional sense of things. But at the same time the most contemporary Italian architect of the twentieth century, the only one, along with Renzo Piano, to receive the Pritzker Prize (the Nobel of architecture), in 1990.
Aldo Rossi designs, creates, writes and teaches. After graduating in architecture in 1949 from the Milan Politecnico, he began working with Ignazio Gardella and Marco Zanuso. In 1969 Carlo Aymonino invited him to create part of the “Monte Amiata” complex in the Gallaratese district of Milan. At that point Aldo Rossi started out with his competitions and largescale designs and started winning widespread acclaim. In 1996 he was nominated Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAAL) in New York.
Aldo Rossi still teaches in Italy, Switzerland and the USA and has filled a number of prestigious positions, such as Director of the Architecture Section of the 1983 Venice Biennial. During that period he designed a number of items which became twentieth-century icons, such as the Alessi coffee pots.
His work with the Molteni Group includes design objects and furnishings created for projects such as the Maastricht Museum in 1994 and the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa. In 1980 Aldo Rossi designed the Cabina dell’Elba for Molteni&C, a synthesis of his poetry, along with the chairs Teatro and Milano. Then cameCarteggio, Piroscafo, Domino, Providence and a number of other furnishing designs. The latest is the refurbishment of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, to Aldo Rossi’s competition winning design.
Patricia Urquiola designs Beds, Chairs, Tables, Sofas and armchairs
A legend of Italian design, cultivated and elegant, with an extrovert Spanish temperament. This is the secret to Patricia Urquiola’s success. A designer who has given new meaning to living, classic and informal, intimate and versatile. Like her chairs and armchairs, soft and undulating.
Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo, Spain. After studying at the Facultad de Arquitetura in Madrid, she graduated in 1989 from the Milan Politecnico under the supervision of Achille Castiglioni. In 1991 she worked on the De Padova product development, where she met Vico Magistretti. In 1993 she opened a studio with partners M. de Rienzo and E. Ramerino developing interior, showroom and restaurant design. In 2001 she opened her own studio, taught seminars at the Domus Academy Designing Exhibition in Australia and started acting as a member of the jury in important international competitions such as the 19th CDIM Award. She still works as a designer for large companies, creating products able to catch the public’s attention. “I understand how much my design pleases the public by how many people touch it,” she says. “I need people to approach it, want to touch it. I like the object to inspire active curiosity.” Philippe Daverio is right when he says that tomorrow’s design is female, Spanish and colourist.
Patricia Urquiola has created several designs and collections for Molteni&C. Gloveis a seating family completely upholstered in microfibre, fabric or leather “worn” by a metal structure. Clip is an original double bed. The table Diamond won the Red Dot Award as best product for 2005.
Hannes Wettstein designs Beds, Chairs, Wardrobes , Tables, Sofas and armchairs
Severe and perfect, Switzerland is a wonderful place to escape from. Hannes Wettstein knows this well, living there and travelling elsewhere with his designs. Born in 1958, Wettstein is one of the most interesting designers of his generation, a fact witnessed by the many prizes and competitions he has won, including the 2004 Compasso d’Oro for the Nomis kitchen designed for Dada. His success is in large part due to his curiosity regarding materials and all forms of creativity. From products to communication, from industrial design to architecture. Furniture, watches, lights. Long live the product seems to be his motto.
He has worked for the Grand Hyatt hotel chain in Berlin, he designed the Swiss Embassies in Teheran and Washington DC, he has worked in partnership with international design companies: Cassina, UMS Pastoe, Shimano, Baleri Italia, Artemide and the Molteni Group.
He started out working freelance, and then became a partner of the Eclat Design Agency. In 1993 he co-founded 9D Design. But it is with his own studio, an interdisciplinary laboratory Zed, that Wettstein really develops his all-round ability as a designer and architect, taking care of company images and creating architectural designs.
For Molteni&C. Hannes Wettstein has designed various products, including the chairAlfa, made from avant-garde material, a resin-polyester composite reinforced with fibreglass, the chair Dart, ergonomic and inviting, the Joseph tables, useful and minimal, and beds which have become classics like Dodicesimanotte Q and theWave series.
Molteni Design Team designs Beds, Tables, Sofas and armchairs
The Molteni Design Team is at the technological heart of Molteni&C., and has always been at the centre of the company’s research and development projects. The Centre conducts research into the avant-garde materials, mechanisms and mechanical movements which make Molteni&C. products unique both for their design and for their reliability in time, two guarantees of Molteni quality.
More than ten highly specialised technicians now work in the wood and the soft furnishings departments.
Along with research geared towards quality mass production of Molteni designs, the Team has designed and built a series of systems, furnishings and soft furnishings, unique in their severe look and functional precision. Among these are the table Rialto, the series of beds Twing, the small armchairs Clipper and Francine and the innovative Gliss5th, the system which has revolutionised the traditional world of wardrobe.
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