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Gio Ponti

Desk from Vembi-Burroughs, Genoa

Giordano Chiesa
Italy, 1951
ash, ash veneer, laminate, brass, plastic 30¼ h × 37 w × 20¼ d in (77 × 94 × 51 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
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Desk features one drawer. Sold with a digital copy of the letter of expertise issued by the Gio Ponti Archives.
provenance: Vembi-Burroughs, Genoa | Phillips, London, Design, 21 September 2016, Lot 200 | Private Collection | Phillips, New York Design, 5 June 2024, Lot 12 | Important Private Collection
literature: Gio Ponti: L'Arte Si Innamora Dell'Industria, La Pietra, pg. 194 illustrates in situ Domus 1950-1954, Volume III, Fiell and Fiell, ppg. 270-275

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Everything is going from heavy to light, from the gross to the subtle, from the colorless to the colorful [...] from the fragmentary to the unitary, from the complicated to the linear. Anyone going in the opposite direction is in error.

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