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SILVER Seller in Pistoia, Italy
Round three-legged coffee table in walnut with brass details, designed by the Italian master Gio Ponti, produced from the late 1940s to the early 1950s in Italy. Gio Ponti was an icon of the modernist movement: the Italian designer, architect, artist and publisher contributed significantly to the world of architecture and design with his extensive work in fine furniture and ceramics, education, office buildings and residential and all. Giovanni, known as Gio Ponti was born in 1891 in Milan. It was there that he spent his childhood and in 1921 he began studying architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. From 1923 to 1930 he was artistic director of the Richard-Ginori porcelain factory. In 1927 Ponti opened his first architecture studio, together with Emilio Lancia, and in 1928 he founded the Domus magazine, which is still considered one of the most influential European architecture and design magazines. He was also very influential during his time as curator of the Milan Triennale. After the collaboration with Emilio Lancia, the Torre Rasini completed, he began to work as an architect together with the engineers Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini. It was during this period that Ponti designed many of his most famous buildings, such as the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Rome, the Primo Palazzo Montecatini, the Casa Marmont and the Villa Donegani in Bordighera. The best known of his architectural works is the Pirelli Skyscraper, which Gio Ponti completed in his hometown of Milan in 1956. He continued to work well into his eighties, completing such impressive works as the Gran Madre di Dio Co-Cathedral in Taranto and the Museo art of Denver. Gio Ponti died in Milan on 16 September 1979 after having produced countless pieces of furniture, ceramics and thousands of other objects during his life.
ID: 6186-1683793980-63314
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