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Gio Ponti and Ettore Calvelli
Double bed, designed for Casa Matteo Longoni
1950s
Sapele veneered wood, brass, silvered metal, laminate, fabric.
Overall: 41 x 118 1/4 x 91.5 in. (104.1 x 300.4 x 232.4 cm)
Woodwork executed by Fratelli Radice, Milan, Italy. Lamps designed by Gino Sarfatti and manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. Both silvered metal plaques incised CALVELLI. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.
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Gio Ponti created the following five lots for the home of fellow designer Matteo Longoni. The two designers had worked together on the interior furnishings of the ocean liner Andrea Doria, whose first outing at sea took place in November 1952. Ponti designed the lounges on the promenade deck while Longoni designed the Cabin Class.