Gio Ponti, Important executive desk
circa 1951
Walnut-veneered wood, walnut, glass, brass, painted steel.
77.8 x 210.2 x 79.5 cm (30 5/8 x 82 3/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
Executed by Egidio Proserpio, Barzanò, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Provenance:
Private collection, Forlì
Literature:
'Il pannello-cruscotto per la scrivania di un dirigente d’azienda', Domus, no. 228, September 1948, pp. 22-23 for a similar example
Roberto Aloi, Esempi Di Arredamento Moderno, Di Tutto Il Mondo: tavoli tavolini carrelli, Milan, 1955, fig. 151 for a similar example
Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti: L’arte si innamora dell’industria, New York, 2009, p. 190 for a similar example
Daria Guarnati, ed., Aria D’Italia: espressione di Gio Ponti, Milan, 2011, p. 80 for a similar example
Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas, Dominique Forest and Salvatore Licitra, eds., Gio Ponti: archi-designer, exh. cat., Milan, 2018, p. 31 for a similar example
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circa 1951
Walnut-veneered wood, walnut, glass, brass, painted steel.
77.8 x 210.2 x 79.5 cm (30 5/8 x 82 3/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
Executed by Egidio Proserpio, Barzanò, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives.
Provenance:
Private collection, Forlì
Literature:
'Il pannello-cruscotto per la scrivania di un dirigente d’azienda', Domus, no. 228, September 1948, pp. 22-23 for a similar example
Roberto Aloi, Esempi Di Arredamento Moderno, Di Tutto Il Mondo: tavoli tavolini carrelli, Milan, 1955, fig. 151 for a similar example
Ugo La Pietra, ed., Gio Ponti: L’arte si innamora dell’industria, New York, 2009, p. 190 for a similar example
Daria Guarnati, ed., Aria D’Italia: espressione di Gio Ponti, Milan, 2011, p. 80 for a similar example
Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas, Dominique Forest and Salvatore Licitra, eds., Gio Ponti: archi-designer, exh. cat., Milan, 2018, p. 31 for a similar example