The new Molteni Museum has been unveiled within a Glass Cube space located in the industrial compound at the company’s headquarters, revamped by Ron Gilad.
The space showcases the company’s achievements products, prototypes, stories and images – as well as its identity and its values, by telling extraordinary stories of the men and women that have invented, produced and built objects, work and social relationships.
The Museum hosts a permanent collection of approximately 50 iconic products and original prototypes belonging to the Group’s companies: Molteni&C, Dada, UniFor and Citterio, as well as an area destined to host temporary exhibitions and special initiatives. But it also tells the story of an Italian enterprise, founded in 1934 by Angelo and Giuseppina Molteni, which developed from the 1950s with the cooperation of Italian and international architects and designers, such as Luca Meda, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Aldo Rossi, Werner Blaser, Richard Sapper, Foster + Partners, Jean Nouvel, lvaro Siza, Pierluigi Cerri, Michele De Lucchi, Hannes Wettstein, Rodolfo Dordoni, Dante Bonuccelli, Patricia Urquiola, Ron Gilad, Ferruccio Laviani, Michael Anastassiades and Vincent Van Duysen, right through to the re-edition of a collection of furnishings designed by Gio Ponti between 1935 and 1970.
The permanent Collection is still the nucleus of the project, re-arranged and reorganised by Ron Gilad according to new criteria. It is flanked by special initiatives, thanks to the flexibility of the spaces, such as temporary exhibitions ranging from architecture to photography and art, with the creation of a programme of events linked to the Museum.
Along with the Museum, the Giussano Compound itself is also having a make-over. The QallaM (Quality to the power of M) Space, designed by Patricia Urquiola, is being renovated as a multimedia space offering a broad catalogue of films and videos about the designers and architects, as well as the technologies involved in our Molteni’s for perfect quality. It is to become a knowledge hub, and will host, among others, theme workshops, conferences and presentations. QallaM has received a number of awards, including the Premio dell’Innovazione della Presidenza della Repubblica and the Menzione d’Onore del Compasso d’Oro.
The historical Archive also plays a key part in the Group’s cultural strategy, as a point of reference for conserving and promoting business culture.
The history of the Company and of its key players is entrusted to iconographic materials, products and machinery, as well as technical, administrative and commercial documents. Material evidence that can be considered cultural assets, the expression of the company’s ethical and aesthetic values and of its capacity for innovation handed down from past to present.
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