D.154.2

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Gio Ponti's D.154.2 encapsulates Ponti's architectural brilliance and ebullient spirit with its enveloping and sinuous profile that inspires both admiration and comfort. It was designed for one of the projects closest to Gio Ponti’s heart, the villa of the Planchart collectors in Caracas (1953-57).

Compasso d’Oro Career Award for Products, 2024 | Wallpaper Design Awards, 2016

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D.154.2 was reissued by Molteni&C in 2015. Faithful to the original, enveloping shape, the re-edition of Gio Ponti’s iconic design is like a cosy 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 armchair won the prestigious Wallpaper Design Awards and became a Molteni&C icon. Imagined in weather-proof materials for exterior environments, D.154.2 was a featured design in the first Molteni&C Outdoor Collection, launched in 2023. In 2024, D.154.2 won the Compasso d’Oro Career Award for Products.

The Icon of Villa Planchart

The iconic armchair was created for the Villa Planchart in Caracas (1953–1957), the private residence of art collectors Anala and Armando Planchart, which they commissioned Gio Ponti to design from top to bottom as both the architect and the interior designer. Now a foundation and a museum, Villa Planchart is a testament to Gio Ponti’s brilliance and the Planchart’s passionate devotion to art and design. To celebrate the Compasso d’Oro Career Award for Products for Gio Ponti’s D.154.2 and perpetuate the designer’s contribution to the culture of quality living, Molteni&C has donated two special re-editions of the chair in the original colors envisioned by Ponti in the 1950’s — one to Fundación Anala y Armando Planchart in Caracas, Venezuela, and the other to ADI (Italian Design Association).

The original D.154.2 at Villa Planchart, Caracas. From Domus, 1961 Courtesy @ Gio Ponti Archives

“I dedicated myself heart and soul to designing Villa Planchart, and in it I was at liberty to express my own approach to architecture, both outside and inside”

Gio Ponti, 1955

Special re-editions of D.154.2 created to celebrate the chair's 2024 Compasso d’Oro Career Award for Products and donated to Fundación Anala y Armando Planchart in Caracas

“Villa Planchart in Caracas is the result of my experiences, following my travels in Latin America in 1953”

Gio Ponti

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Gio Ponti

Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century. Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the “Ponti” style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas.

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