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Gio Ponti
'Diamond' flatware service for 10
- Estimate
- £5,000 - 7,000‡
Lot Details
Precious metal, stainless steel.
circa 1958
Largest utensil: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.) long
Manufactured by Reed & Barton, Taunton, Massachusetts. Reverse of each solid-handled piece impressed Reed & Barton/STERLING. Blades of each hollow-handled piece impressed REED & BARTON/MIRRORSTELE/STERLING HANDLE. Comprising 10 dinner forks, 11 dinner knives, 10 dessert forks, 12 dessert spoons, 10 butter knives, 10 teaspoons, 1 serving spoon, 1 cake server (67).
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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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