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Gio Ponti
Unique inset drinks cabinet with integrated 'Le bariste' painting and shelf
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- £10,000 - 15,000‡♠
£22,860
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Painted veneered wood, painted wood, ash-veneered wood, oil on panel, plastic laminate-covered wood, glass, brass.
circa 1948 and circa 1955
Cabinet: 163.3 x 74.8 x 41.7 cm (64 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 16 3/8 in.)
Shelf: 2.5 x 75.2 x 43.6 cm (0 7/8 x 29 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
Shelf: 2.5 x 75.2 x 43.6 cm (0 7/8 x 29 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
Designed for APEM and executed by Radice, Milan, Italy. Painting signed PONTI bottom right. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.
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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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