Gio Ponti

Experience the boundless vision of one of the greatest architects, designers and art directors of the 20th century. Formed in close collaboration with Ponti's grandson Salvatore Licitra , founder of the Gio Ponti Archives, Gio Ponti is an immersive book on the scale of his kaleidoscopic universe, with texts by Lisa Licitra Ponti and a comprehensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani. An unprecedented tribute to Ponti's achievements as an ingenious publisher and timeless creator, the images and texts of this compelling XL rendering bring the reader closer to his work than ever before.

To study the prolific oeuvre of Gio Ponti is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. His creations, a synthesis of the arts, intuitively expand with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that define his iconic style. Ponti's rare ability to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as an entire city. He was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet and human being. His contribution is a treasure in itself, but also a distinctive landmark of the Italian Renaissance in the middle of the last century and the modernist values it sought to realize.

This is the most comprehensive description of Ponti's work to date, unprecedented in scope and scale. It traces the development of his oeuvre over six decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had made it. As windows on his elusive life, unpublished material and candid images create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known achievements. A rich layer of texts, including an extensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archive and offers an intimate insight into his life's work. Materializing Ponti's core philosophy of modernity, this book presents architecture as a performing object, a "self-illuminating" stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.

Specifications
Title: Gio Ponti
Author: Stefano Casciani, Brian Kish
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 397 x 423 x 76 mm
Size: 572 pages
Weight: 6514 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836501347

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