Gio Ponti - Design London Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan.

  • Literature

    Domus (Milan), no. 282, May 1953, 36-37 for similar examples
    Lisa Licitra Ponti, Gio Ponti: The Complete Works 1923-1978, London, 1990, p. 195 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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Unique single headboard, designed for a private commission, Milan

1960s
Plastic-laminated wood, glass, brass.
Drawer panel: 85 x 187 x 37 cm (33 1/2 x 73 5/8 x 14 5/8 in); other panel: 85 x 211 x 4 cm (33 1/2 x 83 1/8 x 1 5/8 in)
Together with a certificate of Authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £6,250

Design

27 September 2012
London