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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Illustration of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde 1920
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Designs of the twenties 1920 - 1929
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Paintings 1920 - 1970
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House in via Randaccio 9, Milan 1924-1926 - Milan
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Villa Bouilhet "L' ange volant" Garches, Paris, France 1926 - Garches, Paris, France
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Competition entry for furnishing for an italian Embassy 1926
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Objects in pewter and silver for Christofle (at the beginning of the collaboration withChristofle) 1927
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Vestibule to "The Small Rooms" at La Rinascente - Domus Nova, Milan 1927 - Milan
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Pavilion for the Graphic Arts and Book Industry, fiera Campionaria, Milan 1927 - Milan
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Entry in the competitionfor the Milan Development Plan withthe "Forma Urbis Mediolani" 1927 - Milan
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Furniture for Studio L'Officina 1927-1928 - Milan
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Furniture for La Rinascente - Domus Nova 1927-1929 - Milan
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Furniture for "Il Labirinto" 1927-1930 - Milan
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Borletti house in Via San Vittore , milan 1928 - Milan
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Richard Ginori stand, Fiera Campionaria 1928 - Milan
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Interiors of Semenza House 1928 - Levanto (Genoa)
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Participation in the construction of the Monument to the War Dead in Piazza Sant'Ambrogio 1928 - Milan
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"La Penna d'Oca" restaurant 1928 - Milan
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Design of the dome and the La Rotonda central hall, Italy pavilion, 16th Venice Biennale 1928 - Venice
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Vimercati furnishing in Via Domenichino 1928 - milan
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House in Via Domenichino 1928 - Milan
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Schejola furnishings in via Pisacane 1929 - Milan
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Malagoli hairdressing salon in Piazza Virgilio 1929 - Milan
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Borletti Chapel, Monumental Cemetery 1929-1931 - Milan
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Large aluminium table presented at the 4th Monza Triennale 1930 - Monza
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Furnishing for a luxury cabin on board an ocean-going liner at the 4th Monza Triennale 1930 - Monza
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Fabrics for Vittorio Ferrari ( at the beginning of the collaboration) 1930-1933
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Three bookcases for the Complete Works of Gabriele D'Annunzio 1931
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Furniture for Turri 1931 - Varedo (Milan)
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Contini Bonacossi furnishing 1931 - Florence
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Headquarters of Banca Unione (later Banca Barclays Castellini) in Via Santa Maria Segreta 1931 - Milan
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Glass furnishings for the Dahò stores 1931 - Milan
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"Typical Homes": Domus Julia, Domus Carola and Domus Fausta in Via De Togni 1931-1933 - Milan
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FerrarioTavern in Palazzo Mezzanotte 1932 - Milan
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Borletti furnishings in Via de Togni 1932 - Milan
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Italcima plant on the corner of Via Crespi and Via Legnone 1932-1935