Gio Ponti - Design: Online Auction New York Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Lisa Licitra Ponti, Gio Ponti: The Complete Work 1923-1978, Cambridge, 1990, p. 184
    Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 2009, p. 301
    Laura Falconi, Gio Ponti: Interiors, Objects, Drawings, 1920-1976, Milan, 2010, p. 251

  • 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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Property of an East Coast Collector

114

"Domus" flatware service for 12

circa 1956
Stainless steel.
Dinner knife: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm) long
Manufactured by Fraser's, Milan, Italy. Each impressed DOMUS/NICRO/FRASER'S/ITALY. Comprising 12 salad forks, 12 dinner forks, 12 dinner knives, 12 soup spoons, and 12 dinner spoons (60).

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $6,096

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Design: Online Auction

26 July - 2 August 2023