When architect Gio Ponti designed the Dezza armchair in 1965, he couldn't have known that it would change the direction of Italian manufacturer Poltrona Frau, founded in 1912, for good.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s first venture in Milan is an adaptive reuse of an early 60’s building, originally designed by architects Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi and Antonio Fornaroli.

The symposium will take place in two locations: the Padiglione Reale, the waiting room once used by the now-deposed Italian royal family at Milano Centrale station, and the Arlecchino (Harlequin) ...

Designed by Gio Ponti in 1965, the ‘Dezza’ armchair, named after the Milanese street where the architect’s home-studio was located, is characterised by a soft, sleek silhouette with a tapered ...