Gio Ponti - Design London Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan

  • Literature

    Lisa Licitra Ponti, Gio Ponti: The Complete Work 1923-1978, London, 1990, p. 160 for a similar example
    Marco Romanelli, ed., Gio Ponti: A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, p. 58 for a similar example
    Gio Ponti, Oggetti di design 1925-1970, exh. cat., Galleria Babuino Novecento, Rome, 2007, pp. 38, 79 for a similar example
    Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti: L’arte si innamora dell’Industria, New York, 2009, p. 226 for similar examples
    Laura Falconi, ed., Gio Ponti: Interiors, Objects, Drawings, 1920-1976, Milan, 2010, p. 172 for a similar example
    Salvatore Licitra et al., Gio Ponti, Cologne, 2021, p. 385 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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Prototype 'Distex' armchair, model no. 807

circa 1953
Fabric, stained beech.
80.6 x 70 x 107 cm (31 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 42 1/8 in.)
Manufactured by Cassina, Meda, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
+44 20 7901 7944
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Design

London Auction 31 October 2023