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Gio Ponti
Unique and large dining table
- Estimate
- £60,000 - 80,000†
£194,500
Lot Details
Walnut-veneered wood, walnut, brass.
circa 1959
77.2 x 299.9 x 110 cm (30 3/8 x 118 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.)
Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The present table is a variant of the conference table from the auditorium of the Time-Life building, New York, 1959.
Provenance
Gio Ponti
Italian | B. 1891 D. 1979Among 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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