This armchair was designed for one of the projects closest to Gio Ponti’s heart, the Planchart collectors’ villa in Caracas (1953-57). It is part of the Gio Ponti Collection, which was curated by Molteni & C under the artistic direction of Studio Cerri & Associati. The architecture reflected the ideas he had gathered during his travels to Latin America in 1952-53. Today, the armchair, which is like a cozy shell, has a rigid polyurethane frame, a soft polyurethane counter-frame, and a cushion, and is upholstered in the Molteni & C textile range, with the option of differentiating the three component parts.
In 2016, this “love chair” won the prestigious Wallpaper Design Awards and became a Molteni & C icon. Today, the chair, which is like a cozy shell, has a rigid polyurethane frame, a counter-frame of soft polyurethane, and a cushion, and is upholstered in the Molteni & C textile range, with the option of differentiating the three component parts. In 2016, this “love chair” won the prestigious Wallpaper Design Awards and became a Molteni & C icon.
