Gio Ponti - Design Day New York Thursday, December 13, 2018 | Phillips

Design Day

New York Auction 13 December 2018

  • Provenance

    Private collection, Lake Como

  • Literature

    Laura Falconi, ed., Gio Ponti: Interiors, Objects, Drawings, 1920-1976, Milan, 2010, p. 178 for a drawing of a similar example of the garden chair

  • 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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Gio Ponti

Set of six garden chairs and one armchair

circa 1940
Painted metal.
Each chair: 34 1/2 x 18 1/8 x 19 1/8 in. (87.7 x 46 x 48.7 cm)
Armchair: 35 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (90.3 x 57.3 x 51.4 cm)
Produced by Casa e Giardino, Milan, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $11,875

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Design Day

New York Auction 13 December 2018