Epistolary

The correspondence of Gio Ponti collects the letters written and received by Gio Ponti from 1923 to 1979, the year of his passing.

Gio Ponti's epistolary collects the letters written and received by Gio Ponti from 1923 to 1979, the year of his death. Apart from a few years that were destroyed during the Second World War, the documentation of sixty years of activity is complete. The correspondence is divided into dossiers that contain an average of 600 documents each. These are letters, newspaper clippings, documents of various kinds, and sometimes even photographs. It can be divided into two parts: the first, more conspicuous, concerns Gio Ponti strictly; the second includes the other partners of the firm, Antonio Fornaroli and Alberto Rosselli, who joined Ponti after the Second World War. The number of original documents contained in Gio Ponti's correspondence is approximately 98,000 documents. To these must be added another 35,000 documents that represent the correspondence of the Ponti, Fornaroli, Rosselli Studio.

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The subjects of the correspondence are varied and reflect the moments, initiatives, opinions, and interventions of Ponti in various fields: the publishing sector and the magazine Domus, Stile with their respective editors; the design sector that documents the relationships with clients and institutions in Italy and abroad; finally the correspondence with artists, architects, scientists, designers or simply friends and acquaintances.
In Gio Ponti's correspondence with authors, and architects, the names to be cited are many and reflect the periods and interests of Ponti in the various sectors of architectural and literary culture. In total, the people with whom Gio Ponti had relationships over the course of sixty years of activity are approximately 6,400.

Letters

Recipients

Some examples

Ugo Ojetti, Giulio Carlo Argan, Riccardo Bacchelli, Piero Bargellini, Massimo Bontempelli, Alberto Savinio, Leonardo Borgese, Guglielmo Marconi, Filippo Marinetti, Margherita Sarfatti, Tony Bouilhet, Daria Guarnati, Gianni Mazzocchi, Adalberto Libera, Aldo Garzanti, Adriano Olivetti, Edgar Kaufmann, Le Corbusier, Paolo De Poli, Edoardo Persico, Salvatore Fiume, Massimo Campigli, Romano Rui, Giuseppe Bottai, Cesare Zavattini, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Carlo Mollino, Giuseppe Pagano, Luigi Gho, Piero Bottoni, Ludovico Magistretti, Nathan Shapira, Josef Singer, Joseph Rickwert, famiglia Planchart, Henry Luce, Tapio Wirkkala, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josè Antonio Coderch, the Corriere della Sera with its directors and collaborators from the 1930s to the 1970s.