Gio Ponti - Design London Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Giordano Chiesa, Milan
    Thence by descent to the present owner

  • Literature

    'Camera d'albergo', Domus, no. 265, December 1951, p. 12
    'Studio legale a Milano', Domus, no. 286, September 1953, p. 34
    Marco Romanelli, ed., Gio Ponti: A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, p. 90
    Paolo Piccione, Gio Ponti Le Navi: Il Progetto degli Interni Navali 1948-1953, Milano, 2007, pp. 126-29, 131

  • 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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Property from a Milanese Estate

18

Pair of armchairs

circa 1955
Walnut, vinyl, brass.
Each: 84.5 x 56.7 x 55.1 cm (33 1/4 x 22 3/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Executed by Giordano Chiesa, Milan, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £19,530

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London Auction 2 November 2022