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Gio Ponti Set of eight armchairs, model no. 498, designed for the First Class Game Room of the 'Giulio Cesare' transatlantic ocean liner designed 1949, produced 1950s Walnut, fabric. Each: 88 x 58 x 65 cm (34 5/8 x 22 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.) Manufactured by Cassina, Meda, Italy. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Provenance Office of a law firm, Turin, 1950s Literature Gio Ponti and Nino Zoncada, 'Interni di una nuova nave', Domus, no. 267, February 1952, p. 14 Paolo Piccione, Gio Ponti le navi: il progetto degli interni navali, 1948-1953, Viareggio, Italy, 2007, p. 114, figs. 139-41 Ugo La Pietra ed., Gio Ponti L’arte si innamora dell’industria, New York, 2009, pp. 204, 215, fig. 453 Artist Bio 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. View More Works