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Gio Ponti
'Piume' vase, model no. 5911
- Estimate
- £3,000 - 5,000‡
£14,190
Lot Details
Painted and glazed earthenware.
circa 1930
21.5 cm (8 1/2 in.) high
Produced by Richard Ginori, San Cristoforo, Milan, Italy. Underside with manufacturer's mark RICHARD-GINORI/S.CRISTOFORO/MILANO/MADE IN ITALY, inscribed 478 and GioPonti.
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Phillips wishes to thank Dott.ssa Oliva Rucellai for her assistance cataloguing the present lot.
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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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