Molteni and C

Molteni and C was founded in Giussano in the Brianza region of Lombardy in 1934, and has developed over nine decades into one of Italy’s most architecturally serious furniture manufacturers. The company’s design collaborations with major architects and designers, from Aldo Rossi and Luca Meda in the 1960s and 1970s through Patricia Urquiola and Foster and Partners in the contemporary period, have produced a furniture catalog that reflects the full arc of postwar Italian design while maintaining an architectural seriousness that distinguishes the brand from the purely decorative furniture.

The wardrobe and storage systems that Molteni and C has developed are the most technically sophisticated in the Italian furniture market: the floor-to-ceiling wardrobe system that integrates seamlessly with the room’s architecture, the sliding door mechanisms that operate with absolute precision, and the interior organization that the closet planning service develops for the specific client’s storage requirements are the elements that make Molteni’s wardrobe systems the choice of the architect who wants the bedroom storage to disappear into the room’s architecture.

The bed program at Molteni and C includes designs by the brand’s major collaborators, from the minimalist timber-framed beds of the Aldo Rossi collaboration to the more upholstered and architecturally complex beds of the current program. The Georgetown residential client who is renovating a master suite finds in the Molteni bed and wardrobe system the complete bedroom specification at the highest level of Italian design.

The M Street Georgetown showroom at 3306 is in the design district block adjacent to Poliform and Calligaris. Hours run from 10am most days and noon Sunday. The Molteni wardrobe system design at the Georgetown showroom proceeds through the planning consultation in which the client’s room dimensions and storage requirements determine the configuration of the wardrobe before the material and color selections are made. The wardrobe planning service, which is a standard offering at the Molteni showroom, produces a detailed specification that the Georgetown client can take to the renovation project manager for the installation coordination.

The Molteni design collaboration history, which has included major architectural practices alongside individual designers, means that the furniture at the Georgetown M Street showroom at 3306 has a direct relationship to the broader discourse of contemporary architecture and design. The Molteni client who is also engaged with the Georgetown architectural community, through the renovation of a historical property or the commissioning of new work, finds in the Molteni catalog furniture that shares the architectural concerns of the buildings it is placed in. Hours run from 10am most days and noon on Sunday. Molteni and C at 3306 M Street NW is open most days from 10am and from noon on Sunday, providing the Georgetown client with the complete furniture program in a single showroom. The Molteni product planning service, which covers the wardrobe system specification as well as the living and sleeping furniture selection, coordinates the full furniture renovation project through a single design relationship that simplifies the Georgetown client’s renovation management.