AL MOMENTO ESAURITO
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100847819507
ISBN-139780847819508
eBay Product ID (ePID)304626
Product Key Features
Book TitleGio Ponti
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicHistory & Criticism, Interior Design / General
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Non-Classifiable, Architecture
AuthorUgo La Pietra
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length11.5 in
Item Width9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-072948
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal709.2
SynopsisThe work of Italian architect, artist, planner, craftsman, designer, and visionary Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is pivotal in the history of twentieth-century artistic culture. This remarkable book offers an extensive selection of Ponti's projects - over 150 of them - accompanied by designs, sketches, plans, photographs, and Ponti's own copious writings. Following an initial classical period of activity, Ponti went on to champion the importance of the individual during the overwhelming surge of mass-production promoted by Modernism. Ponti's writings in Domus during his long tenure as editor, and his designs for ceramics manufacturer Richard-Ginori, Alfa Romeo, the furniture company Cassina, fixtures-maker American Standard, and many other manufacturers, all testify to his vision for a modern society in which good design was available to the common person, and life, art, and architecture were inseparable. Gio Ponti also presents Ponti's architecture, including the famous Montecatini Building in Milan (1936), the interior of the luxury liner Andrea Doria (1951), the Pirelli Tower (1956), the Museum of Modern Art in Denver (1972), and numerous other residential and office buildings, churches, retail spaces, villas, and universities that Ponti designed between the early 1920s and 1978.
LC Classification NumberN6923.P6226A4 1996
