Newness remains to be attainable from Italian design legend Gio Ponti, even 46 years after his loss of life.
In November, Molteni&C offered its first assortment of objects designed by Ponti which included eight choose items from the archive. Ponti designed with such ardour and frequency, he crammed his artistic wealth with over 250 design objects, a few of which have by no means been seen by the general public.
Ponti’s grandson Salvatore Licitra, a recent artwork photographer and curator of the Gio Ponti Archives, describes these items — which vary from a sculpted hand to a seven-tubed vase as “lovely and inconceivable objects, appropriate just for flights of fancy — an invite to dwell and to get pleasure from magnificence.”
His creativity and the impact he had on a technology of designers fueled a definite chapter of Italian midcentury trendy design. Over his 60-year profession, Ponti designed buildings, houses, furnishings and design objects that stay trendy it doesn’t matter what the period. In 2012 the Molteni Group, Gio Ponti’s heirs and the Gio Ponti Archive established a partnership to supply Gio Ponti Objects. That settlement was expanded in 2016 with unique worldwide rights to supply Ponti’s furnishings — apart from these already licensed to different producers. Amongst Ponti’s most well-known furnishings items, Molteni&C produces Ponti’s well-known D.859.1 desk.
Molteni&C Gio Ponti Objects can be found at choose Molteni&C flagships worldwide and on Molteni&C’s web site.
The Gio Ponti Objects assortment from Molteni&C.
