Pirelli Tower, Milan; Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, Taranto; Villa Planchard, Caracas;[1] Denver Art Museum (with James Sudler Assoc.);[2] Palazzo Montecatini, Milan.[3]
Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ([d͡ʒo] 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.[4]
During his career, which spanned six decades, Ponti built more than a hundred buildings in Italy and in the rest of the world. He designed a considerable number of decorative art and design objects as well as furniture.[5] Thanks to the magazine Domus, which he founded in 1928 and directed almost all his life, and thanks to his active participation in exhibitions such as the Milan Triennial, he was also an enthusiastic advocate of an Italian-style art of living and a major player in the renewal of Italian design after the Second World War.[6] From 1936 to 1961, he taught at the Milan Polytechnic School and trained several generations of designers. Ponti also contributed to the creation in 1954 of one of the most important design awards: the Compasso d'Oro prize.[7] Ponti died on 16 September 1979.
His most famous works are the Pirelli Tower, built from 1956 to 1960 in Milan in collaboration with the engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, the Villa Planchart in Caracas and the Superleggera chair,[8] produced by Cassina in 1957.
Giovanni "Gio" Ponti ([d͡ʒo] 18 November 1891 – 16 September 1979) was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher,...
unique emphasis on decorative diversity. Collaborating with figures like GioPonti, Fornasetti's atelier became synonymous with bringing art into everyday...
company Giò lụa, a Vietnamese pork sausage GioPonti (horse), an American Thoroughbred race horse Ibanez GIO, a series of guitars General Inspection Office...
in Louisiana Ettore Ponti (1855–1919), Italian politician Gianluca De Ponti (born 1952), Italian professional footballer GioPonti (1891–1979), Italian...
was located in the 19th century. The project was developed by architect GioPonti, with the assistance of Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. Construction...
architect GioPonti in 1971. In 2018, the museum began a transformational $150 million renovation project to unify the campus and revitalize Ponti's original...
("Branca Tower") is a steel-frame panoramic tower designed by architect GiòPonti in 1933, located in Parco Sempione, the main city park of Milan, Italy...
such as Adolfo Wildt, GiòPonti, Arturo Martini, Agenore Fabbri, Lucio Fontana, Medardo Rosso, Giacomo Manzù, Floriano Bodini, and Giò Pomodoro. The main...
Royal Highness. Other highlights of 2007 were stakes winners Meribel, GioPonti, Revved Up, Naissance Royale, Vacare, In Summation, and Rutherienne who...
admiration he has won. And we should to be grateful to him for this also. GioPonti Born in Padua, and after an early training in drawing and embossing on...
doubles as a small set of steps when folded out. Superleggera chair by GioPonti (1955) Swan chair, designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the SAS Royal...
post office). During the 1920s, important architects and designers like GioPonti worked with their Rinascente's in-house designers to design new modern...
Nakashima (1905–1990) George Nelson (1908–1986) Greta von Nessen (1898–1975) GioPonti (1891–1979) David Rowland (1924–2010) Gaby Schreiber (1916–1991) Bauhaus...
which had become part of Milan in 1923). This hospital was designed by GiòPonti and inaugurated in 1932. It kept the name Ca' Granda, whilst the new general...
Territory. Such world-renowned architects as Edward Durell Stone and GioPonti have been associated with the city's development. Islamabad has attracted...
(1925) Cabinet by Ruhlmann (1926) Cabinet design by Ruhlmann Furniture by GioPonti (1927) Desk of an administrator, by Michel Roux-Spitz for the 1930 Salon...
late 1950s and early 1960s – The Pirelli Tower is also built in Milan by GioPonti and Nervi. It is regarded as one of the finest examples of modernist Italian...
greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Achille Castiglioni, GioPonti, and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly...
Muzio, featuring GioPonti's Torre Branca. The Triennial was recognised by the Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) in 1933. With Ponti and artist Mario...
studio on Via Santa Ursula in Milan, along with Giuseppe De Finetti, GioPonti, Emilio Lancia and Mino Fiocchi and actively participated in the cultural...
following competition from industrial production. The architect and designer GioPonti was inspired by the structural system of the Chiavari chair for his Superleggera...
flanked by a seven-story section of the base. An auditorium designed by GioPonti, with colored triangles, was installed on the eighth-floor setback. The...
This work was in a 'Special Interior' designed by architect GioPonti. Altara and Ponti collaborated on a number of projects. A painted chest of drawers...
Belgium by Charles Vandenhove (1962–82) The Pirelli Tower in Milan, by GioPonti and Pier Luigi Nervi (1958–60) The Fondation Maeght by Josep Lluis Sert...
said GioPonti's trainer, Christophe Clement. "My horse ran a great race, but he couldn't beat her." "I believe if there was another horse ahead of Gio Ponti"...
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