GIO PONTI COLLECTION

Gio Ponti
1891 1921 1923 1926 1928 1933 1934 1936 1941 1946 1947 1948 1950 1953 1955 1956 1957 1960 1964 1966 1970 1979 Born in Milan, spends his childhood there and enrolls for an architecture de
gree at the Politecnico.
Finally graduates, having interrupted his studies during World War I.
Becomes artistic director of Richard-Ginori, the ceramics manufacturer for which he wins the Grand Prix at the 1925 Paris Expo.
Designs his first house on Via Randaccio in Milan.
Founds Domus, which he establishes as Europe’s most influential architecture and design magazine.
Organizes the 5th Triennale exhibition (originally in Monza) in Milan.
Completes work on Mathematics Department at Rome University.
Construction of the first Montecatini headquarters in Milan.
Quits Domus to found Stile, an art and architecture magazine.
Start of three year project to design Murano glassware for Venini.
Leaves Stile to resume the editorship of Domus.
Unveils the La Pavoni coffee machine and begins a four year commission to restore four Italian liners with Nino Zoncada.
Collaborates with Fornasetti on interior of the Casino at San Remo.
Launch of Series P sanitaryware for Ideal Standard and the angular Distex armchair for Cassina.
Completion of Villa Planchart, or the “Butterfly House”, in Caracas.
Construction of the Pirelli Tower as “a graphic slogan” in Milan.
Design of Superleggera Chair for Cassina, a lighter version of 1955’s Leggera Chair. Publication of Amant L’Architettura, a new version of a book of essays which orginated in Ponti’s 1940 pamphlet, Architecture is a Crystal.
Builds Villa Nemazee in Tehran in the same “joie de vivre” style as the two Caracas houses, Villa Planchart and Villa Arreaza.
Interior design of Hotel Parco dei Principe in Rome and its (recently restored) sister hotel in Sorrento. Builds Church of San Francesco in Milan.
Completes Church for the Hospital of San Carlo in Milan.
Construction of Taranto Cathedral conceived as a very visible “sail”.
Gio Ponti dies in his family home on Via Nezza in Milan.
Gio Ponti
Collection
Reissued by Molteni & C, 2012
Gio Ponti with Armchair
Opening Reception May 2nd, 5-8 p.m.
Gio Ponti
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