Gio Ponti - Design New York Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Phillips

Design

New York Auction 29 July 2020

  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan

  • Literature

    "Modern by Singer," Singer & Sons sales catalogue, New York, 1950, n.p.

  • 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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Gio Ponti

Side table, model no. 1128, from the "Modern by Singer" series

circa 1950
Brass, glass.
16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm) high, 39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm) diameter
Manufactured for Singer & Sons, New York. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $8,125

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New York Auction 29 July 2020