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D.355.1 / D.355.2 By Molteni & C.
Collection: Heritage
Designer: Gio Ponti
Type: Wall-mounted floating bookcase
D.355.1 / D.355.2 is a suspended bookcase made with elm veneer, partly with natural transparent finish, partly hand-painted in white. This year the Molteni&C Collection designed by Gio Ponti is enriched with the D.355.1 hanging bookcase, an object that the great Milanese architect was to re-design several times over the years, re-fashioned in the version for his Via Dezza house in Milan, with an elmwood finish, hand-painted white, 240 or 195 cm long, with two partitions that recall the bookcase in the 2013 Molteni&C catalogue. Molteni&C is re-examining its own history with an eye to the future. The 80!Molteni exhibition, the creation of the company’s historical archive and its recently inaugurated Molteni Museum have provided an opportunity for revival, from the origins of modernity. Intriguing traces have emerged from a past that turns out to be contemporary, ripe for a re-think today. Unique pieces that can step straight out of their museum showcases and into our contemporary homes.