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Gio Ponti
"Diamond" flatware service
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
$37,500
Lot Details
Forks and spoons: sterling silver.
Knives: sterling silver, stainless steel.
Knives: sterling silver, stainless steel.
circa 1958
Largest utensil: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm) long
Manufactured by Reed & Barton, USA and distributed by Arthur Krupp, Italy. Forks and spoons impressed, Reed & Barton/STERLING, hollow handle pieces impressed, REED & BARTON/MIRRORSTELE/STERLING HANDLE. Comprising 20 dinner forks, 20 salad forks, 20 dinner knives, 20 butter knives, 20 dinner spoons, 23 dessert spoons, 6 cocktail forks, 5 serving pieces, and a bottle opener (135).
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Gio Ponti
Italian | B. 1891 D. 1979Among 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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