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When Monk re-enters Molteni&C’s catalogue this year, it will mark 35 years since the chair was last in production. “Designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, ‘Monk’ is simple and solid,” reads the company’s 1990 catalogue.
But in addition to his homes in Antwerp and Melides, there is a place to which he has returned time and time again: Milan.
The Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen has become synonymous with one word: serenity.
Ponti believed that architecture should serve the lives of its occupants, creating environments that inspire and enrich daily living, and all of the life that he imagined the house would contain is scribbled on to this large sheet of tracing paper.
