Gio Ponti Via Dezza Chair

Ponti the apartment in which gio ponti lived with his family from 1957 onward his last house contains all of the pontian inventions with regard to layout walls furniture and objects that had appeared during the fifties and that had originated even earlier.

Gio ponti via dezza chair.

Ponti apartment in via dezza 1957 milan. Designed in 1965 the dezza armchair embodies some of gio ponti s most important design principles from both a formal perspective like the leg with its characteristic tapered triangular cross section and a methodological standpoint thanks to the revolutionary modular system comprising of a limited number of pieces to assemble. Bookcase designed in 1956 1957 for ponti s house on via dezza in milan. For those that might want ponti s custom armchair in their own home molteni c is now reissuing it in limited quantities.

Quick view bookcase suspended. The distex chair form became an important communicator of ponti s innovative and distinctly modern vision of the midcentury period. The houses in via randaccio 1925 casa laporte in via brin 1926 and the last in via dezza in 1957 is an expression of his home design ideas. The data bank gio ponti archives is based on photographic materials from the study of gio ponti reorganized by his daughter lisa in the mid eighties on the occasion of the book gio ponti l opera by lisa ponti and from important additions in photos.

Italy s own gio ponti 1891 1979 succombed to that hankering. In case of multicolor order please specify the color of each chair during the order in the notes space or sending. An architect furniture and industrial designer and editor gio ponti was arguably the most influential figure in 20th century italian modernism ponti designed thousands of furnishings and products from cabinets lamps and chairs to ceramics and coffeemakers and his buildings including the brawny pirelli tower 1956 in his native milan and the castle like denver art museum 1971. Gio ponti was an italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea of interior furnishing ranges produced as being a sophisticated economic democratic and modern.

White and yellow identical. The gio ponti archives are located in premises that were gio ponti s office the building he designed and lived in on via dezza 49 milan. Armchair designed in 1953 by gio ponti. Polyurethane frame covered in leather or fabric in various colors.

From gio ponti s house located in via dezza in milan the small table d 555 1 designed in 1954 1955 is produced by molteni c based on the original drawings from the ponti archives.