Gio Ponti - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Lisa Licitra Ponti, Gio Ponti: The Complete Works 1923-1978, London, 1990, p. 131 for a bottle with 'crinoline'
    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Milan, 2000, p. 98, fig. 45, p. 201, fig. 59 for a vase with 'crinoline'
    Marco Romanelli, Gio Ponti: A World, Milan, 2002, pp. 42-43 for examples of a bottle with 'crinoline'

  • 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 five 'crinoline' glasses

1950s
Coloured glass.
Each: 13.8 cm (5 3/8 in.) high
Manufactured by Venini, Murano, Italy. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 

Sold for £7,500

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Meaghan Roddy
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New York
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Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm