Gio Ponti - Saturday @ Phillips New York Saturday, October 25, 2008 | Phillips

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  • 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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Assembled flatware service for eight

1970s
Stainless steel.
Serving spoon: 10 in. (25.4 cm) long.
Mostly manufactured by Krupp, Italy. Dinner forks, luncheon forks and dinner sppons impressed "ARTHUR/KRUPP/MILANO/ITALY," serving pieces, teaspoons and fish forks impressed "ART.KRUP," manufacturer's logo, "NIGRO," and "MILANO ITALY," dinner knives impressed with manufacturer's logo and "INOX/ITALY," five cheese knives impressed with manufacturer's logo and "ROSTFREI," and two cheese knives impressed "KRUPP-MILANO/INOSSIDABILE/ITALY." Comprising eight teaspoons, eight dinner spoons, three serving spoons, eight dinner forks, eight luncheon forks, eight fish forks, two serving forks, eight dinner knives, and seven cheese knives (60).

Estimate
$1,500 - 2,000 

Saturday @ Phillips

25 Oct 2008, Noon
New York