Gio Ponti Unique tiered coffee table circa 1940 Elm burl-veneered wood, maple, aluminum, glass. 19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm) high, 34 1/4 in. (87 cm) diameter Executed by Fratelli Strada, Cesano Maderno, Italy. Underside with paper label printed with FS/Fratelli STRADA - Cesano Maderno/INDUSTRIA MOBILI - ARREDAMENTI and handwritten with Sig. Dott. Giovanni Moreno/Pretore/Cairo Montenotte. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Provenance Giovanni Moreno, Cairo Montenotte, 1940 Thence by descent Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature "In visita alle case," Domus, no. 113, May 1937, p. 41, fig. 5 for a similar example Marco Romanelli ed., Gio Ponti A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, p. 32 for a similar example Ugo La Pietra ed., Gio Ponti New York, 2009, p. 61, fig. 139 for a similar example Catalogue Essay The present coffee table was gifted to Giovanni Moreno as part of a suite of furniture commissioned from Gio Ponti on the occasion of the former's wedding in 1940. The remainder of the suite included a dining table, six chairs, a buffet, and two armchairs. Read More 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
Gio Ponti Unique tiered coffee table circa 1940 Elm burl-veneered wood, maple, aluminum, glass. 19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm) high, 34 1/4 in. (87 cm) diameter Executed by Fratelli Strada, Cesano Maderno, Italy. Underside with paper label printed with FS/Fratelli STRADA - Cesano Maderno/INDUSTRIA MOBILI - ARREDAMENTI and handwritten with Sig. Dott. Giovanni Moreno/Pretore/Cairo Montenotte. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Provenance Giovanni Moreno, Cairo Montenotte, 1940 Thence by descent Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature "In visita alle case," Domus, no. 113, May 1937, p. 41, fig. 5 for a similar example Marco Romanelli ed., Gio Ponti A World, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 2002, p. 32 for a similar example Ugo La Pietra ed., Gio Ponti New York, 2009, p. 61, fig. 139 for a similar example Catalogue Essay The present coffee table was gifted to Giovanni Moreno as part of a suite of furniture commissioned from Gio Ponti on the occasion of the former's wedding in 1940. The remainder of the suite included a dining table, six chairs, a buffet, and two armchairs. Read More 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
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