Palazzi Montecatini by Gio Ponti

Cliente: Orma S.r.l.

Location: Milano

Prodotto: clinker 6x12 cm 3D

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In 2020 Teamwork made the reproduction of the facade of one of the buildings of the Montecatini complex, in Milan, Brera. Designed by architects Giò Ponti, Fornaroli and Soncini, and built at different times and on two contiguous lots, the buildings for Montecatini were designed to house all the administrative offices of the Milanese company.

 

Reproduction of the 2 × 2 mosaic (damaged original mosaic on the left; TeamWork’s reproduction on the right).

TeamWork reproduced the mosaic tiles and the 6 × 12 cm diamond-shaped 3D clinker tiles that characterise the façade of the building overlooking Via Montebello. Built fifteen years after the first building, which overlooks Via della Moscova, on an adjacent plot, it echoes some of its compositional principles, although—as the renowned architect Piero Bottoni observed—«the external form, compared with the adjoining building, appears overshadowed by the richness and visual prominence of the materials.(1954), such as the Apuan marble used on the street-facing surfaces or the white mosaic tiles cladding those facing the interior.

Reproduction of the Gio Ponti's tile (6x12 cm diamond shape 3D)
The damaged facade
The renovated facade
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