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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Design for hotels on the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts 1938
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Victory Exhibition 1938 - Padua
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Fabrics for Vittorio Ferrari 1938 - Milano
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Villa Tataru 1938 - Cluj (Romania)
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Ferrania Building (later Fiat Building) on the corner of Corso Matteotti and Via san Pietro all'Orto 1939 - Milan
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Competition entry for the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1939 - Rome
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EIAR Building (now RAI building) in Corso Sempione 1939 - Milan
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Furnishings for the Vetrocoke offices 1939 - Milan
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Buildings in Piazza San Babila 1939 - Milan
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Competition entry for theBuilding of Water and light at the E42 1939 - Rome
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Design for the Marzotto Building on the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Piazza San Babila 1939 - Milan
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scenery and costumes for the "La Vispa Teresa" ballet, by Ettore Zapparoli 1939 - Sanremo (Imperia)
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Design for an INA House in Via Manin 1939 - Milan
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Scenery and costumes for "Pulcinella" by Stravinsky 1939 - Milan
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"Aria D'Italia" magazine 1939 - 1941
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Lamps for Lumen 1940
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Enamelwork panels made by Paolo de Poli (beginning of the collaboration) 1940 - Padua
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Villa Donegani 1940 - Bordighera (Imperia)
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Bedroom for the 7th Triennale di Milano 1940 - Milan
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design for furnishings for the Giustiniani Apartment in Foro Bonaparte 1940 - Milan
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Door handles for Sassi 1940 - Milan
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Hotel du Cap, design for holiday homes for the Eden Roc, Cap D'Antibes 1940 - Cap D’Antibes (France)
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Columbus Clinic for the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of the Blessed Cabrini, Via Buonarroti 48 1940 - Milan
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Paintings at Palazzo of "Popolo D'Italia" 1940 - Milan
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Furniture for Cassina 1940 - Meda
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Drawings of the fourties and fifties 1940 - 1950
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Bormioli furnishings 1941 - Milan
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Cutlery and other objects for Krupp Italiana (beginning of the collaboration) 1941
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"Bellezza" magazine 1941 - 1944
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"Stile" magazine 1941-1947
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Design for the cableway and hotel network of the Upper Dolomites 1942
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Furnishings for the Krupp silverware store 1943 - Milan
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Villino Marmont "La Cantarana" 1943 - Lodi
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Design for the new Mondadori plant 1943 - Rho ( Milan )
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Ponti House (first version) 1944 - Civate Brianza (Como)
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Garzanti Building in Via della Spiga 1944 - Milan
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Scenery and costumes for the "Festa Romantica" ballet, by Piccioli, at the La Scala Opera House 1944 - Milan
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design for the QT8 Pilot District 1944 - Milan
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Scenery and costumes designs for the "Mondo Tondo" ballet at the La Scala Opera House 1945 - Milan
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Paintings on glass 1945-1950
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Picture frames, heads and sculptures in Paper Mache for Enrico dal Monte 1946 - Faenza
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Ceramics for Melandri 1946 - Faenza
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Design of Breda District 1946 - Milan
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Scenery and costumes for "Orfeo" by Gluck, at the La Scala Opera House 1946-1947 - Milan