Price loading...

Taschen Gio Ponti

Name: Gio Ponti
Brand: Taschen

Architects

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Also available as Art Edition (No. 1–1,000) including an exclusive, square format reproduction of the Arlecchino coffee table and a set of four numbered ocean liner interior prints. To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti’s rare capacity to move seamlessly between scales allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as he did an entire city. He was as much an architect and designer as he was a publisher, poet, and man. A treasure in its own regard, his contribution is also a distinctive landmark of Italy’s mid-century Renaissance and the modernist values it sought to realize. This new book is the most comprehensive account of Ponti’s work to date, unprecedented in scale and scope. It tracks the development of his oeuvre over 6 decades, with 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution, each object framed by the context in which Ponti had created it. Like windows onto his elusive life, unpublished materials and candid imagery create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known feats. A rich layer of texts, featuring an extensive biographical essay by Stefano Casciani, was produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives offering an intimate insight on 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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Taschen
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 3836501341
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Architects
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 May 2020
Listed Since: 13 April 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Taschen Gio Ponti

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Piano: Complete Works 1966–Today. 2021 Edition

Molteni Mondo: An Italian Design Story

Piero Portaluppi

New Building in Old Cities: Writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on Architectural and Urban Conservation

Mid-Century Modern: High-End Furniture in Collectors' Interiors

Gio Ponti: The Collection of Museo Richard-Ginori: La Manifattura de Doccia

Gio’ Pomodoro: Catalogue Raisonné

Alessandro Mendini: Imagination Takes Command

Italian Modernisms: Italian Architecture & Construction in the Twentieth Century

Pucci: The Art of Fashion

The Giedion World: Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue

The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy and Invention (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)

Le Corbusier (Critical Assessments in Architecture)

Tadao Ando. Sketches, Drawings, and Architecture

Echoes: Cassina. 50 Years of iMaestri

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Modern Architecture A–Z

Gino De Dominicis: the Immortal (Libri Maxxi)

Marc Newson. Works 84-24 (Xl)

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: AN ARCHITECTURAL VISION FROM THE FIRST RENAISSANCE, VOLUME II: Volume Ii: 2

Pucci. Updated Edition

Architecture as Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa's Modernist Project for Brazil: Lucio Costa’s Modernist Project for Brazil (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence

Cavallino Nel Cuore: Autobiography of a Designer