Molteni&C new home concept, conceived by Vincent Van Duysen on stage at the 2022 Salone del Mobile.Milano. Light becomes an integral part of the design of the space, because it modulates the way the architectural composition is perceived and expressed. Recalling the words of Walter Gropius: the new Architecture opens the walls, as if they were drapes, to allow as much fresh air, light and sunshine to come in.

Living is once again central to every corner of the home. A theater of life experienced, where the quality of the home environment is the key premise for planning the various rooms: increasingly more versatile, multifunctional, able to adapt and mould itself to a second usage. An idea of a cosy, reassuring and welcoming home. But constantly evolving, which Molteni&C interprets through wall systems, the protagonists of the project and part and parcel of the architecture.

While in the previous few years the narrative project paid tribute to the great protagonists of international modernism, this year references to the roots of the movement are fleetingly mentioned, evocative. It mentions the atmospheres: the fluid homes, to be lived in, the large and convivial rooms linked one to the other, the permeable internal and external spaces. And above all that idea of space, extremely elegant but without any ostentation for ostentation’s sake, in tune with the surrounding landscape. Paraphrasing Alvar Aalto: spaces that in their form express content and that content is linked to Nature.

Explains creative director Vincent Van Duysen, who is looking for lightness, fluidity and the etherial in the Molteni&C|Dada 2022 narrative project. Like the great examples of the homes of American modernism, Vincent van Duysen imagines a single storey house, in which you can feel in touch with the ground, with the outdoors. Think of homes marked by transparency, organized with light-weight partitions and wide outward-looking verandas and terraces: thresholds, open spaces halfway between indoors and outdoors, spaces that are private but in direct contact with light and Nature.