1893-2018 PERMANENTE MOBILI CANTÙ CELEBRATES 125 YEARS The Permanent Exhibition of Canturini Furniture was born on 11 May 1893 , an initiative that in a few years would have allowed the wood manufacturing company to make a decisive entrepreneurial leap, thus overcoming the weak point of an activity that for a good number of enterprises had reached the second generation. Its constitution brought not only economic benefits to the members, but also a new awareness in the sector. Also due to the effects of this kind of initiatives, at the beginning of the twentieth century the Canturina manufacturing was considered at the top of national production. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Permanente Mobili was indicated as a cooperative model of reference for all small furniture manufacturers. Permanente Mobili was one of the great ideas on which the economic development of our territory was based and with this maxim, engraved on our building, it will still be: THE MONKEY ZIZI Permanente Mobili Cantù has acquired the reproduction rights of Bruno Munari's Zizì Monkey. This site is being updated THE FURNITURE OF CARLO DE CARLI On the centenary of his birth in collaboration with the Politecnico di Milano he proposes some famous furnishing elements designed by Carlo De Carli. ▸ The furniture of Carlo De Carli, Italian master of design. GIO PONTI AND CANTÙ. 1923-1973 Furniture design and craftsmanship from the Rinascente to the Selective 30 September - 22 October 2017 La Permanente Mobili, piazza Garibaldi, Cantù. Attraverso una serie inedita di mobili, documenti, fotografie e riviste d’epoca la mostra ricostruisce il rapporto di collaborazione di Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Tomaso Buzzi, Michele Marelli, Emilio Lancia, Paolo Buffa, Luigi Daneri con alcune tra le più affermate aziende canturine a partire dagli anni Venti sino al secondo dopoguerra. Indaga infine il ruolo svolto da Gio Ponti tra il 1954 e il 1959 nella nascita e nell’affermazione della Selettiva del Mobile. Curatela: Tiziano Casartelli. In contemporanea con la mostra è stato editato il volume omonimo "Gio Ponti e Cantù. 1923-1973. Design e artigianato del mobile dalla Rinascente alla Selettiva” di Tiziano Casartelli, che verrà presentato il 6 ottobre 2017 alle ore 21 presso la sede della mostra. La Permanente Mobili Cantù Consortium 22063 Cantù (Co) - piazza Garibaldi, 9 Tel 031 712539 - fax 031 720412 - VAT number 00580090132 web: www.permanentemobilicantu.com | email: info@permanentemobilicantu.com