Gio Ponti - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Office of a law firm, Milan, 1953
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    'Across the seas collaborations for the new Singer collection', Interiors, December 1951, pp. 120, 122, 127
    'Studio legale a Milano', Domus, no. 286, September 1953, illustrated p. 34
    'Singer's radiant spaces', Interiors, December 1956, p. 120, fig. 1

  • Artist Biography

    Gio Ponti

    Italian • 1891 - 1979

    Among the most prolific talents to grace twentieth-century design, Gio Ponti defied categorization. Though trained as an architect, he made major contributions to the decorative arts, designing in such disparate materials as ceramics, glass, wood and metal. A gale force of interdisciplinary creativity, Ponti embraced new materials like plastic and aluminum but employed traditional materials such as marble and wood in original, unconventional ways.

    In the industrial realm, he designed buildings, cars, machinery and appliances — notably, the La Cornuta espresso machine for La Pavoni — and founded the ADI (Industrial Designer Association). Among the most special works by Gio Ponti are those that he made in collaboration with master craftsmen such as the cabinetmaker Giordano Chiesa, the illustrator Piero Fornasetti and the enamellist Paolo de Poli.

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Set of eight dining chairs, model no. 111, from an office of a law firm, Milan

1953
Oak, leather, brass, brass studs.
Each: 86.4 x 43.2 x 52 cm (34 x 17 x 20 1/2 in.)
Manufactured by Figli di Amedeo Cassina, Meda, Italy. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £27,500

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale
New York
+44 20 7318 4027

Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm