Count Cantoni-Marca, Lombardy
Roberto Aloi, L’ Arredamento Moderno, Milan, 1934, fig. 324 for a similar example of the table
'Il nuovo negozio di Fontana-Arte a Roma', Domus, no. 131, November 1938, p. 66 for a similar example of the table
Laura Falconi, Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Milan, 1998, p. 200, fig. 16, p. 202, fig. 32 for similar examples of the table
Lucia Miodini, Gio Ponti: Gli anni Trenta, Milan, 2001, p. 103 for a drawing of a similar example of the table
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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