Ponti's designs are celebrated for their careful considerations of how space and furniture are truly inhabited and used by people. For many of his architectural projects, he also designed and furnished the interiors. His design of the Vembi-Burroughs offices in Genoa and Turin employed large, open rooms, glass doors and partitions and playful, responsive furniture to connect and enliven the work spaces. He asserted that an architect had to "imagine for each window, a person at the sill, for each door, a person passing through." The present lot, a secretarial desk from the offices, is notable for its lightweight structure, similar to his iconic Superleggera chair, its curved form and overall convivial nature.