Denis Bosselet, Paris
Audrey Friedman, New York, 1980s
Wright, "Important Design," December 9, 2007, lot 129
Private collection
Wright, "Design," June 12, 2014, lot 210
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Albrecht Bangert, Italienisches Möbeldesign: Klassiker von 1945 bis 1985, Germany, 1985, illustrated p. 129, cat. no. 90
Marco Romanelli, ed., Gio Ponti: A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, pp. 136-37 for a similar example exhibited at the X Milan Triennale
Laura Falconi, Gio Ponti: Interiors, Objects, Drawings 1920-1976, Milan, 2004, p. 245 for the Triennale table
Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 2009, p. 235 for the Triennale table
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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