GIO PONTI (ITALIAN 1891-1979) FOR GIORDANO CHIESA, MILAN ‡§
SOFA, c.1951
Estimate: £15,000 - £25,000
Auction: MODERN MADE Part II | 01 November 2024 | Lots 80 to 444
Description
brass and upholstery
Dimensions
91.4cm high, 132cm wide, 80cm deep (36in high, 52in wide, 31 ½in deep)
Provenance
Casa Lucano, Milan;
Phillips, London, Casa di Fantasia, 21 March 2019, lot 303, where acquired by the present owner.
Footnote
This lot is sold together with a facsimile Certificate of Expertise from the Gio Ponti Archive.
The current work was designed for the Casa Lugano, a large apartment in the elegant Fiera district of Milan, around 1951. It became the height of his journey to create a fantasy home melding French Surrealist and Italian Metaphysical art of the mid-20th century into a domestic realm.
The sofa captures Ponti's dispensation with the house as ‘machine à habiter’, introducing a luxurious element and in the Casa Lugano he created a space where the client was a spectator for whom spatial inventions were being staged for endless divertimenti.