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Author: Brian Kish ,
Fabio Marino ,
Lisa Licitra Ponti ,
Salvatore Licitra
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Dimensions:
Width: 36.00cm
, Height: 7.10cm
, Length: 36.00cm
Weight: 6.512kg
ISBN: 9783836501347
ISBN 10: 3836501341
Pages: 572
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: German, French, English
Reviews
The most resistant element is not wood, is not stone, is not steel, is not glass. The most resistant element in building is art. Let's make something very beautiful. * Gio Ponti *
The most resistant element is not wood, is not stone, is not steel, is not glass. The most resistant element in building is art. Let's make something very beautiful. * Gio Ponti * The book is full of revelations. But for those who know Ponti for his architecture and his furniture, the real surprise is the ways they came together in rooms that display his seemingly endless supply of creativity. * 1stdibs.com * There's an irony here, that a prince of lightness such as Ponti should be remembered with something so massive, but it's hard to do justice to his output in any other way... It successfully captures Ponti's spirit. * The Observer * ...a tour de force investigation of the designer's oeuvre. * architecturaldigest.com * ...an absolute beauty about the refined Italian architect-designer who defined a vein of elegant, uncontroversial mid-century chic. * The Financial Times * Gio Ponti aims to be the final say about the designer's work and importance. * architectmagazine.com *
Author Information
Brian Kish is a 20th-century Italian architecture and design historian, with a focus on BBPR, Caccia Dominioni, Gardella, and Ponti. He curated, in 2001, the first US exhibition on Gio Ponti and wrote for both Entryways of Milan and Gio Ponti Archi-Designer (M.A.D. Paris). Fabio Marino is an architectural historian and researcher at the Polytechnic of Milan. He investigates contemporary architecture and its connection to Italian Design of the 1950s and 1960s. He has coauthored various books on Italian Design. Widely known as a poet and artist, Lisa Licitra Ponti (1922–2019) flanked her father Gio Ponti at Domus, becoming Managing Editor until 1979, while also contributing to Stile. In 1990, she edited the important monograph: Gio Ponti. The Complete Work, 1923–1978. Photographer, artist, and curator Salvatore Licitra created the ""Gio Ponti Archives"" in the studio of his grandfather Gio Ponti in 1996. Notable curated exhibitions are Gio Ponti Archi-Designer at the Museè des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, in 2018, and Gio Ponti: Loving Architecture at the MAXXI in Rome, in 2019. Stefano Casciani is an Italian writer and designer. The innovative inspiration of his own work has been recognized with awards such as the Compasso d’Oro 2001. Managing Editor of Domus from 2000 to 2011, he has been Editor and Publisher of disegno magazine since 2012. Based in Berlin, freelance editor and art director Karl Kolbitz worked with Mario Testino and Wolfgang Tillmans for many years, before founding his own creative practice focusing on the development and design of publications, such as Entryways of Milan and Gio Ponti.
