Perfection belongs to this (Many) World

“I have always been fascinated by their precision, their professionalism, the way they strive to create absolutely perfect objects,” he says Jean Nouvel in the book Molteni Worldbio-epic book celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Giussano company.

“He's probably the most brilliant person I've ever met,” he replies Giulia Molteni, Marketing and Communications director of the Molteni Group, third generation of the family in the company. «In 1994 he arrived at Unifor (brand of the group that produces office furniture, ed.) with a paper bag in his hand: he wanted a table as transparent as a sheet of paper for the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Unifor delivered Less, a steel table with a very thin rigid top, obtained by successive folding of the sheet metal, L-shaped legs and an aerodynamic profile.

And, to celebrate these precious 90 years, a dinner was organized with a parterre of exclusive guests, at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, a former industrial building once home to a factory for the construction of locomotives, which, with a surface area of ​​15,000 meters squares, is today one of the largest horizontally developed exhibition spaces in Europe.

Perfection is of this World
Perfection is of this World
Giulia Molteni with Vincent Van Duysen

Giulia Molteni with Vincent Van Duysen

Matteo Daltri

Source: Vanity Fair

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