Gio Ponti - Design New York Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Giulio Cesare ocean liner, Genoa, Italy

  • Literature

    Giordano Tironi and Paolo Piccione, eds., “The Design of the Ship,” Rassegna, December 1990, p. 58; Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 1996, p. 214; Paolo Piccione, Gio Ponti: Le Navi: Il Progetto Degli Interni Navali, 1948-1953, Milan, 2007, pp. 103 and 106-108

  • Artist Biography

    Gio Ponti

    Italian • 1891 - 1979

    Among 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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Coffee table, from the Giulio Cesare ocean liner, Genoa, Italy

1950
Painted laminated wood, glass, brass.
19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm.) high, 39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm.) diameter
Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $43,750

Design

3 June 2009, 11am
New York