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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designs for Venini (bottles and chandeliers) 1946-1949 - Murano (Venice)
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Furniture for Spartaco Brugnoli 1947 - Cantù (Como)
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Sewing machine prototypes for Borletti 1947-1948
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Villa in Via del Tiro a Volo 1947-1950 - Sanremo (Imperia)
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"La Cornuta" Espresso coffee maker for La Pavoni 1948 - Milan
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New ceramics for Richard Ginori, Manifattura di Doccia 1948 - Sesto Fiorentino (Florence)
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Furnishings for the Cremaschi apartment in Via Alberto da Giussano 1948 - Milan
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Lepetit Monument to Concentration Camp Victims 1948 - Ebensee (Austria)
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Swimming-pool of the Hotel Royal 1948 - San Remo (Imperia)
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designs for fabrics for Pasini 1948 - Milan
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The headboard-panel for Spartaco Brugnoli 1948 - Cantù (Como)
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Furnishings for publisher Gianni Mazzocchi's study in Via Monte di Pietà 1949 - Milan
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Chair with tips and tilted backrest for Cassina 1949 - Meda (Milan)
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Interiors of the Conte Biancamano liner, Finmare Italia Group 1949 - Genoa
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Dulciora shop on the corner of Via Orefici and Via Cantù 1949 - Milan
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"Visetta" sewing machine for Visa 1949 - Voghera
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Villa Plodari 1949 - Rapallo (Genoa)
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Interiors of the Conte Grande liner, Finmare Italia Group 1949 - Genoa
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Ponti - Fornasetti 1950 - Milan
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M.U.S.A exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 1950 - New York (USA)
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1950
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1950
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1950
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Urban development plan for Unity-INA Casa Harrar - Dessiè District 1950 - Milan
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Ceccato furnishings 1950 - Milan
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Interiors for the San Remo Casinò 1950 - San Remo (Imperia)
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Furniture for M.Singer & Sons 1950 - New York (U.S.A.)
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Vembi-Borroughs offices 1950 - Genoa, Turin, Florence, Padua
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RAS Building in Corso Vittorio Emanuele 1950 - Milan
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"A Dining Room to Look at" mechanized dining-room displayed at the MUSA exhibition 1950 - New York
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Interiors of the Andrea Doria liner, Società di Navigazione Italia 1950
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1950 - 1958
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Houses in the INA Casa Harrar Dessiè District 1951 - Milan
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Espresso coffee makers for La Pavoni 1951 - Milan
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Prototype of a bed-room for the 9th Triennale di Milano 1951 - Milan
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Interiors of Giulio Cesare liner, Società di Navigazione Italia, 1951
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"Triennale" armchair for Isa 1951 - Bergamo
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"646 La Leggera" chair for Cassina 1951 - Meda (Milano)
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Second Montecatini Building in Largo Donegani 1951 - Milan
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"Conca" cutlery for Fraser 1951 - New York (U.S.A.)
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School complex 1951 - Chiavenna (Sondrio)
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Lamps for Greco 1951 - Milan
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Prototype of an "Hotel Bed-room"for the 9th Triennale di Milano 1951 - Milan
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Competition entry for the interiors of Asia and Vittoria ships 1951
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"Conca" steel cutlery and silver items for Krupp Italiana 1951 - Milan
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1951 - 1957
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Furnishing of Giulio Ponti's room 1952 - Milan
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Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli practice offices in Via Dezza 1952 - Milan