Gio Ponti - Design Masters New York Tuesday, December 16, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Italy

  • Literature

    Laura Falconi, Gio Ponti: Interiors, Objects, Drawings, 1920-1976, Milan, 2004, p. 160 for a similar example
    Michael Webb, Modernist Paradise, Niemeyer House/Boyd Collection, New York, 2007, p. 101 for a similar example
    Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 2009, p. 200, fig. 429 for a similar example

  • 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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118

Early center table, from a private commission

1940s
Walnut, walnut-veneered wood, glass.
31 1/2 in. (80 cm) high, 50 5/8 in. (128.6 cm) diameter
Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $50,000

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale
New York
+ 1 212 940 1266

Design Masters

New York Auction 16 December 2014 6pm