Gio Ponti - Design London Thursday, October 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Turin

  • Literature

    Cornelio Brandini, Gio Ponti: Arte Applicata, exh. cat., Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milan, 1987, p. 23
    Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti, New York, 1996, p. 299 for other examples from the same series
    Marco Romanelli, ed., Gio Ponti: A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, p. 49

  • Catalogue Essay

    The model illustrated on the right was exhibited at the XI Milan Triennale, 1957.

  • 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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Two plates

circa 1957
Enamelled copper, silver leaf.
Each: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.) diameter
Manufactured by Del Campo, Turin, Italy. Underside of each signed Gio Ponti/del campo.

Estimate
£3,500 - 5,500 

Sold for £7,500

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Design

London Auction 17 October 2019