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Davide Medri

Davide Medri

Davide Medri was born in Cesena on August 7, 1967 and graduated from the Fine Arts of Ravenna, the Mosaic Art Institute and the Albestainer Mosaic Professional School, considered one of the best schools in the world for teaching the mosaic technique.

After various artistic experiences and in the world of design, in 1997 the designer began the production of mirror mosaics, entirely handmade with extreme meticulousness. Immediately these highly decorative objects, the result of an aesthetic marked at times maximalist, become design icons, desired all over the world; the shapes are manifold, united or broken down to form different compositions, square or curved, in natural mirror, gold or black glass for an always very spectacular effect.

The work is totally handmade and every single piece of glass is fixed by hand ensuring high quality; each work of art and design is unique.

Parallel to the mirrors, panels and large frames, the designer also creates tables, coffee tables, consoles and lamps with the same characteristics, combining stainless steel with the glass or mirror mosaic, in a pleasant play of glossy-opaque and clear- dark. Among these furnishings we can mention the conical tables with mosaic interior illuminated by light, the long steel table with mosaic inserts and the famous lamps that can be combined with rings in a luminous mirror mosaic.

Many years after their first appearance, the mirrors and their grandiose frames remain the most ingenious, original and recognized product of Davide Medri, now called “the king of the mirror mosaic”. In more recent years, a new ironic and very decorative collection has been added to the famous type of mosaic mirrors, consisting of large mirrors with the enlarged appearance of real or imaginary road signs. This apparently playful collection must not be misleading: each specimen is made entirely by hand, painting, as on a painting, the road sign with its related symbols and colors.

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Molteni&C - mobili e design, sedie, divani, tavoli, arredi

Molteni

Molteni & C was founded as a craft company in 1934 in Giussano in the province of Milan (later in the province of Monza and Brianza), by Angelo Molteni, a businessman from Brianza, among the promoters of the Milan International Furniture Fair, which will see its first edition in 1961 In the first post-war period the company made furniture starting from the trunk and covering all the production phases and in the mid-1950s it participated in the first “Selective Exhibition – International Furniture Competition” in Cantù, with a project by the Swiss architect Werner Blaser, a pupil by Alvar Aalto and assistant to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who wins first prize. The chest of drawers, with the triple fork geometric joint, is the first prototype of modern furniture and has recently been reworked in a precious numbered and certified edition.
1968 is the year of the revolution: in a few months, production is converted from classic to modern, to create well-designed furniture, designed for the series; Luca Meda, a pupil of the Ulm School, is the man of the revolution, his Iride containers presented at the Salone del Mobile in 1968. The following year the complete conversion to design furniture took place, followed by the purchase of the Unifor companies and Citterio, in the office sector and, in 1979, of Dada, a kitchen furniture company. Over the years Molteni & C therefore becomes a reality for the production of furniture.
During the artistic direction entrusted to Luca Meda, the architects Aldo Rossi and Afra and Tobia Scarpa are called to design for Molteni; Aldo Rossi will design some now iconic furnishings such as the theater sofa, the weekly Carteggio and the Milano chair, rare examples of the Maestro’s forays into the world of design.
In the 1990s, however, collaboration began with some Italian and international designers, including Jean Nouvel, Foster and Partners, Patricia Urquiola, Rodolfo Dordoni, Hannes Wettstein.
In 1994 Molteni & C received the Compasso d’Oro for Lifetime Achievement. “Among the protagonists of the Italian furniture culture”, says the jury, “he has been able to present an offer of products designed with constant dignity, safe quality and a broad vision of the cultural context”. In the same year Jean Nouvel designed the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Molteni created all the furnishings through Uniforo: thus the Less series was born, an icon of design in the world, tables with minimal thickness and with elementary and rigorous shapes.
In early 2000 To support international expansion, Molteni & C created the Padded division and, in a few years, established itself among the best international manufacturers with the projects of Patricia Urquiola, Ferruccio Laviani, Rodolfo Dordoni, Hannes Wettstein and Ron Gilad and many others.
In 2012 Molteni & C presented the Gio Ponti Collection at the Salone del Mobile, furnishings never mass produced by the great Milanese architect, in collaboration with Gio Ponti Archives. The collaboration between Molteni and Gio Ponti’s heirs continues annually thanks to an exclusive agreement for the rights of the Maestro’s projects.
The Molteni Group recently celebrated 80 years of activity with an exhibition at the Modern Art Gallery in Milan, entitled 80! Molteni. With an installation curated by Jasper Morrison and the graphic project by Studio Cerri & Associati, prototypes and furnishings from all the companies of the Group recount, for the first time, 80 years of experience, quality and innovation. The exhibition has become the core of the Molteni Museum in Giussano.
As of April 2016, Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen has been appointed creative director of the Molteni & C brands; after the success of the Gliss Master collection of wardrobes, the new collaboration focuses on coordinating the image and the design and artistic choices of the group.
Born as a company specialized in the production of systems, today the company still fully produces in Italy an integral offer for the home, from containers to upholstered items, from chairs to tables … flanked by a contract division that manufactures cruise ships, theaters , museums, hotels, restaurants and collective residences.

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