The early 1950s marked a turning point in Gio Ponti’s furniture designs, towards highly innovative solutions linked to functional and essential shapes.‎ Several aspects pushed Ponti towards this new way of designing.‎ The end of the Second World War, with the desire to restart and rebuild a modern world full of novelties, thus moving away from the past; the availability of innovative materials, which made it possible to conceive objects that were previously unfeasible; an industrial vision of design, thanks to the new-born Italian industry which began to produce furniture in large series.‎ The Round project (D.‎154.‎5) fully satisfied Ponti’s design mind-set of the period.‎Designed in 1954, full production began in 1956/1957 and it was officially presented at the 11th Milan Triennale in 1957.‎ Today, Round (D.‎154.‎5) was reborn thanks to the Heritage Collection reissue project by Molteni&C, in collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives, and it is part of the 2021 Collection.‎Featuring a wooden structure of multi-layered ash and black chrome or brushed brass feet, the Round D.‎154.‎5 chair can be covered with all our range of Molteni&C textile and leather collections.‎Molteni&C is re-examining its own history with an eye to the future.‎ The 80!Molteni exhibition, the creation of the company’s historical archive and its recently inaugurated Molteni Museum have provided an opportunity for revival, from the origins of modernity.‎Intriguing traces have emerged from a past that turns out to be contemporary, ripe for a re-think today.‎ Unique pieces that can step straight out of their museum showcases and into our contemporary homes.‎