Gio Ponti - Design London Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli ann '40 e '50, Roma—Bari, 1992, p. 41 for a similar example; Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 1996, pp. 205, 231 and 279 for similar examples; Gio Ponti, oggetti di design 1925-1970, exh. cat., Galleria Babuino Novecento, Rome, 2007, pp. 24-25 for a similar example

  • 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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Set of eight dining chairs

c. 1955
Stained oak, fabric.
Each: approximately 93.3 cm. (36 3/4 in.) high
Manufactured by Cassina, Italy (8).

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Design

30 Apr 2009, 2pm
London