Molteni Vernici awarded at the Compasso d'Oro International Award 2025
Molteni Vernici is once again recognized as one of the most authoritative realities in the international design scene. On the occasion of the Compasso d'Oro International Award 2025, our Maison was celebrated at the ADI Design Museum in Milan with a selection dedicated to the special paints that have defined the company's identity since 1948.
The award represents one of the highest awards in the world of industrial design and confirms the role of Molteni Vernici as a global reference in research applied to surfaces, material experimentation and process innovation. A result that comes after the official exhibition at Expo Osaka 2025, where the Maison presented a series of special finishes developed for the international market.
A path that combines art, design and technology
Since its foundation, Molteni Vernici has built a precise vision: not “a paint factory”, but a Maison specialized in the creation of special paints and material surfaces created to accompany architects, contractors and designers in the realization of their most ambitious projects.
The award obtained at the ADI Design Museum confirms the solidity of this path, the result of more than seventy-five years of research and development conducted within the Cantù Chemical Atelier. Here, technique and creativity meet to generate new aesthetic, functional and sustainable solutions, designed to anticipate market needs and transform every material into a unique sensory experience.
Molteni Vernici special paints are used today in the most iconic projects of interior design, luxury retail, contemporary architecture and international industrial production, bringing Italian quality and excellence all over the world.
Compasso d'Oro International Award 2025: a recognition of the Maison's vision
The new edition of the Compasso d'Oro International Award focused on the cultural value of design as a tool for transformation and innovation.
The installation “Alchimia — The Revolution of Italian Design”, hosted at the ADI Design Museum, traces the key moments of the Italian project, giving space to the companies that have most contributed to its evolution.
Molteni Vernici was selected for its ability to transform ordinary materials into extraordinary surfaces thanks to proprietary technologies, advanced processes and constant research on metals, oxides, coatings and ultra-thin high-strength finishes.
This award does not celebrate a single product, but an entire working method based on three principles:
• Technical precision
• Aesthetic innovation
• Low-thickness industrial applicability
An approach that has led Molteni Vernici to collaborate with the main architectural firms, contractors and luxury brands in Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia.
After Expo Osaka 2025, a new chapter of Italian design
The presence at Expo Osaka 2025 has further consolidated the Maison's international vision.
The exhibition presented a selection of special paints and surfaces developed for the global market, highlighting the quality of Made in Italy and the ability of Molteni Vernici research to adapt to the most diverse contexts: from high-end hotels to experiential retail, from private residences to large public spaces.
The new participation in the ADI Design Museum therefore represents a natural continuation of this path, strengthening the Maison's position as an ambassador of Italian excellence in the world. An authoritative confirmation for a company that has focused on design culture for over seventy-five years.
Special paints as a language of contemporary design
The identity of Molteni Vernici is based on the ability to give shape to surfaces that are not simple coatings, but narrative elements of the project.
Special paints become a language, a material code capable of expressing values, emotions and identity.
Ultra-thin finishes, controlled oxidation, metal effects and patinas certified for architectural use allow designers and contractors to obtain technical and aesthetic solutions that are difficult to reproduce with natural or traditional materials.
Each formulation is developed internally, tested according to industrial standards and designed to be applicable on metal, wood, plastic and composite surfaces, maintaining high performance and a contemporary aesthetic.
A celebration of project culture
The Compasso d'Oro International Award 2025 is not just an award, but a confirmation of the vision that has always guided Molteni Vernici: to promote a design idea based on quality, research and the continuous evolution of materials.
The presence at the ADI Design Museum testifies to the Maison's ability to actively contribute to the culture of Italian design, bringing innovation to a strategic sector such as surfaces.
Your Design for Better Lives
With this recognition, Molteni Vernici continues to write a new chapter in the history of special surfaces.
A path that looks to the future with a clear objective: to create special paints that improve the aesthetic, technical and sensory quality of the spaces in which we live.
Your Design for Better Lives.
Molteni Vernici — Since 1948.
