Molteni – Tea chair upholstered back

The Tea chair is a tribute to lightness.
The structure, completely made of solid wood, outlines and reveals the profile of the chair in its entirety. With Tea, the London designer redefines the concept of seating in a contemporary way, adapting it to all types of furniture, with stability and practicality being of primary importance.

Jasper Morrison

Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959 and raised in New York in the United States, Jasper Morrison attended the Bryanston School. He graduated from Kingston Polytechnic Design School with a degree in Design in 1982 and obtained two masters in Design: one from the same Kingston Polytechnic Design School in 1982, the other from the Royal College of Art in London in 1985.

He also studied at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) in Berlin. Known for thinking outside the box, Jasper Morrison is one of the most successful industrial designers of the recemt decades. Along with his colleague Naoto Fukasawa, he defined the term “super normal”, which he believes answers the question of what “good design” should be. In his work, he try to create good examples of simple, useful and responsible design.

He has worked for Alessi, Alias, Cappellini (for which he created the Three Sofa De Luxe sofa), FLOS, FSB, MAGIS, Rosenthal, Rowenta, SCP, Furniture, Vitra, Lamy (fountain pens), Schiffini. Furthermore, Morrison has developed several projects in collaboration with Vitra. Among the many, the All Plastic chair, the Soft Modular sofa and the HAL family of chairs. His drawings are represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in other major museum collections around the world.

Molteni

Angelo Molteni, born in 1912, began his entrepreneurial activity in Giussano, now the province of Monza and Brianza, the furniture district. His workshop becomes, in a short time, synonymous with high quality product. The 60s began in the best way, in fact Angelo Molteni is in the founding committee of the first Salone del Mobile in Milan, which opened on 24 September 1961 with great success. This is the decade of the revolution: in a few months, the production is converted from classic to modern, to create well-designed furniture, designed for the series. Luca Meda, a student of the Ulm School, is the man of the revolution, his Iride containers presented at the Salone del Mobile in 1968. From the 70s until today, Molteni grows, is renewed and concretizes in a definitive way its value, and the undisputed style in the world panorama. In 2008 the distribution expanded beyond the Italian borders and was structured with foreign branches. New molteni&c | Dada monobrand stores are opening: about 600 in the world, including 40 Flagship Stores, also present in the largest international design metropolises such as London and New York. Moltenigroup.com is born, the web address of the new website of the Molteni Group. Key words are narration, inspiration, contemporaneity of molteni&c and Dada brands. As of April 2016, Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen has been appointed creative director of molteni&c and Dada. After the success of the Gliss Master wardrobe collection, the new collaboration focuses on image coordination and the retail concept.