Gio Ponti - Heatwave: Online Auction London Wednesday, July 14, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galleria Cristiani, Turin
    Acquired from above by the previous owner in mid-2000

  • 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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Pair of side chairs designed for the Montecatini Office Building, Milan

aluminium, synthetic leather and Bakelite
each 83.6 x 43 x 41.9 cm (32 7/8 x 16 7/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
Executed circa 1938 and manufactured by Ditta Parma Antonio e Figli.

Estimate
£1,000 - 2,000 

Sold for £1,512

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Heatwave: Online Auction

Online Auction 14 - 22 July 2021