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.
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, profiling and data collections carried out by Salvatore Licitra from 1996 onwards.
"Archives" is plural in order to express the aim of creating a database for Gio Ponti which will succeed in relating information and materials of different kinds, properties and origins. Check: Publix Weekly Ad and Kroger Weekly Ad.
This approach is essential if we are to give an adequate account of Ponti's work and achievement, as he was engaged on multiple fronts, from architecture to product design, from communication to art, and by nature and temperament inclined to form relationships and experiment widely.
The task of the database of the Gio Ponti Archives is thus also to compose the richest possible mosaic of the background against which he moved, for the reasons explained above and in the knowledge that in those years (1920-70) art, architecture and design in Italy attained peaks of quality subsequently unequalled.
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Ledoga Offce Building in Via Carlo Tenca now Via Roberto Lepetit 1934 - Milan
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Interiors of the Italian culture Institute, Palazzo Füstenberg 1935-1936 - Wien, Austria
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Ferrania Building (later Fiat Building) on the corner of Corso Matteotti and Via san Pietro all'Orto 1939 - Milan
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Competition entry for the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1939 - Rome
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EIAR Building (now RAI building) in Corso Sempione 1939 - Milan
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Buildings in Piazza San Babila 1939 - Milan
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Competition entry for theBuilding of Water and light at the E42 1939 - Rome
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Design for the Marzotto Building on the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Piazza San Babila 1939 - Milan
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Garzanti Building in Via della Spiga 1944 - Milan
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Davila building and furniture 1954 - Caracas (Venezuela)
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Design for "Casa D'Italia" in Buenos Ayres 1937 - 1939 - Buenos Ayres (Argentina)
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RAS Building in Corso Vittorio Emanuele 1950 - Milan
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Second Montecatini Building in Largo Donegani 1951 - Milan
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Edison Building in Via Carducci 1952 - Milan
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design for the "Predio Italia", Italo-Brazilian Centre 1953 - Sao Paulo (Brazil)
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design for Lancia Building 1953 - Turin
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Italian Culture Institute - Lerici Foundation 1954 - Stockholm (Sweden)
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Aldo Garzanti Foundation 1954-1957 - Forlì
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Pirelli skyscraper inPiazza Duca D'Aosta 1956 - 1960 - Milan
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First Montecatini Building, on the corner of Via della Moscova and Via Turati 1936 - Milan
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Assolombarda Building in Via Pantano 1958 - Milan