Flights of Fancy

Molteni&C launches a collection of Gio Ponti objects that epitomize the legendary architect's explorations and fertile imagination

- MAYER RUS

It comes as no surprise that Gio Ponti, the 20th-century Italian design maestro, showed an early interest in painting before pursuing his studies in architecture. Artistry is the through line that connects the Milanese polymath's extraordinary oeuvre, encompassing skyscrapers, houses, interiors, furniture, fabrics, industrial design, and signature creations in wood, metal, glass, and ceramics. This fall, Molteni&C expands its collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives by debuting a collection of eight objects originally designed in the 1950s and refined in the following decades as new editions