Gio Ponti - Design London Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Christie's, Paris, 'Design', 19 May 2015, lot 67
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    'Tutto Ponti: Gio Ponti Archi-Designer', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 19 October 2018-5 May 2019

  • Literature

    Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas, Dominique Forest and Salvatore Licitra, eds., Gio Ponti: archi-designer, exh. cat., Milan, 2018, illustrated p. 53

  • 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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Unique 'Labirinto' embroidered textile

1928
Dyed silk, golden thread.
296 x 300 x 0.1 cm (116 1/2 x 118 1/8 x 0 in.)
Executed by Pia di Valmarna embroiderer from the Cernobbio embroidery school, Italy.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

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London Auction 31 October 2023