Gio Ponti - Important Design London Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan
    Private collection, Monaco

  • Literature

    Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile Italiano Degli Anni '40 e '50, Bari, 1992, p. 171 for similar examples

  • 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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Rare coffee table

circa 1940
East Indian rosewood-veneered wood, walnut-veneered wood, walnut, brass, glass.
45 x 84.8 x 45.1 cm (17 3/4 x 33 3/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.

Estimate
£18,000 - 24,000 

Sold for £37,500

Contact Specialist
Madalena Horta E Costa
Head of Sale
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Important Design

London Auction 18 October 2018