An armchair, a story: D.153.1
Between technical prowess or audacity of shapes and colours, every week, L'Officiel returns to the history and origins of a mythical armchair that we dream of seeing enthroned at home.
Designer, architect, essayist and one-of-a-kind character, Gio Ponti is considered one of the most influential visionaries of the 20th century whose creations contributed concretely to the reconstruction of the Italian taste for art, especially in the critical post-war period. Domus magazine, which he founded in 1928, introduced a wave of curiosity and freshness into the world of furnishings, greatly contributing to influencing public tastes. The D.153.1 armchair is a project from 1953, reissued by Molteni & C to celebrate the master of the Heritage Collection in collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archive. Designed for his personal home in Via Dezza in Milan, Gio Ponti's armchair features a satin brass structure, two-tone leather upholstery or Rubelli “Dotted” fabric as well as fabrics from the Molteni & C range. dots, whose design by Gio Ponti dates back to 1934, reinterprets the age-old technique of velvet, updating it with contemporary motifs, such as the tight sequences of staggered stamps in colour gradations.
