
Gio Ponti
Archi-designer
- Edited by Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas, Dominique Forest, Salvatore Licitra
- Binding Hardcover
- Size 24,5 x 32 cm
- Pages 312
- Illustrations 350
- Language English
- Year 2018
- ISBN 9788836641253
- Price € 55,00
- Not available
A prolific creator, Gio Ponti (1891-79) not only played a key part in Italian architecture, but also opened up the way for a new art de vivre. This book covers the whole of his long career, from the 1920s to the late 1970s, both in Italy and abroad. It looks at the various fields in which he exercised his talent; private, public and religious commissions, furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass, silverware and textiles, as well as the central role he had in transmitting new ideas through the reviews Domus and Lo Stile. This work, an important reference book on Gio Ponti, pays tribute to the creative universe of this legendary figure on the modern art scene.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, October 2018 - May 2019
Foreword
Olivier Gabet
Essays
Gio Ponti: A Guide for Contemporary Use
Salvatore Licitra
In Praise of Architecture (and of Gio Ponti, too)
Fulvio Irace
Gio Ponti, or the Romantic art of Industry
Ugo La Pietra
Bridges between Milan and Paris
Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas
Catalogue
1920-30
1930-40
1940-50
1950-60
1960-70
1970-78
Appendix
Timeline
Selected Bibliography
Archive Funds
Acknowledgements
Authors
Index
Photographic Credits
Finestre aperte sulla natura, sul mistero, su Dio
e il Gonfalone dell'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano
Catalogue raisonné 1943-1987
Design. Catalogue Raisonné 1936-1960
Selected Works 1938-1973