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Molteni&C

Pantalica

Designed by Elisa Ossino, the Pantalica stools bring sculptural clarity and multifunctionality to the Molteni&C Outdoor Collection. Inspired by archaic Mediterranean forms and named after the UNESCO-listed site in southeastern Sicily, these pieces reinterpret ancient geometry through a contemporary lens—merging cultural resonance with practical elegance.

The stools are available in two distinct versions: one features four cylindrical legs with a cube-like top, while the other rests on a single central cylinder with a square top. Both are constructed on a durable aluminum base and wrapped in hand-woven synthetic rattan made of weather-resistant polypropylene. The woven surface offers softness and support, eliminating the need for added cushions when used as seating.

Designed to function as stools or small side tables, the Pantalica pieces are lightweight, versatile, and beautifully textured—ideal as standalone accents or paired with other elements from the Pantalica family, such as the coffee table, daybed, or rug.

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Meet the designer
Elissa Ossino

Elisa Ossino is an architect and designer. Sicilian, she trained in Milan, where she studied at Politecnico di Milano. In 2006, she founded Elisa Ossino Studio, focusing on residential and retail interiors, product design, art direction and set design. Her work combines geometric abstraction, monochromes, metaphysical and surrealist references, creating a coherent and allusive relationship between light, objects and space, identified by the strong feature of her sign. To inspire Elisa’s compositional style is a figure of scenic suspension, recurring in the weightless design
of each intervention. Essential lines and geometries are the distinctive features of her design designs, giving to the space they are located in a deep scenographic feeling.

Her works have been published in Italy and abroad and exhibited in prestigious locations and galleries. In 2016, some of her design projects were exhibited at “W-Women in Italian Design” for the 9th edition of the Triennale Design Museum. Over the years she has received several national and international awards including the EDIDA 2020 – Elle Deco International Awards – with Balnea designed for Salvatori winning ‘Best bathroom’; in 2019 and 2020 she was included among the ‘Top 100 Interior Designers of the year’ by AD.

Next to her Studio activity, Elisa Ossino pursues a research that brought her to create together with other partners, in 2004, a kids design brand, Nume, for which she designed the furniture collection. In 2010, she set up with others Officina Temporanea, a project that connects design and artistic expression, identifying social issues as one of the main areas of interest. In 2019 she co-founded H+O, a brand dedicated to surface design, exhibitions and multidisciplinary installations that explore new languages for interiors and contemporary lifestyles. The same year she inaugurated the apartment gallery located in the historic Brera district of Milan.

Since 2016 she has been teaching at the IUAV University of Venice in the Master “Interactive Media for Interior Design”. Among the directions that she has recently impressed on her work lies a renovated interest for visual arts and multimedias’ potential linguistics.

Pantalica Stools by Molteni&C: Archaic forms reimagined in woven versatility

Crafted from aluminum and hand-woven polypropylene rattan, the Pantalica stools by Elisa Ossino function as seats or side tables, offering sculptural texture and ancient-inspired geometry.

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