Giò Ponti

A 1950s ‘Fantasy Home’ by Gio Ponti recreated for landmark auction at Phillips London

Gio Ponti could play it straight when he had to (think Milan’s Pirelli Tower or his La Cornuta espresso machine for Pavoni), but should a freewheeling client come along, the Italian architect’s imagination would let loose. Nowhere more so than...

Gio Ponti’s cut-out cathedral in Taranto deserves a resurrection

A run-down port city on the edge of Europe that has suffered from decades of industrial decline, and an iconic building designed by a world-famous architect at the peak of his career. The description may sound a lot like Bilbao...

A Gio Ponti design created for a New York icon has a happy landing at Salone del Mobile

Gio Ponti’s ‘D.859.1’ table was originally designed to sit atop a Manhattan skyscraper. It was the centerpiece of the Milanese master’s most extensive project in New York: an auditorium perched on the eighth-floor terrace of Harrison & Abramovitz’s...

Best in shows: our standouts of the spring/summer 2018 collections

Photography: Melaine + Ramon. Fashion: Isabelle Kountoure and Jérôme André. Writer: Laura Hawkins

Cassina marks 90 years with a revamped HQ, a new gallery space and a fresh look at its classics

A squat 1940s workshop, set behind a single train track in blue-collar Meda, Lombardy, produced the first industrialised models for the Italian furniture maker Cassina. For a while, the Cassina family lived here too, running a small shop on the...

Bow belles: stay ahead of the curve with sensual velvets and geometric arcs

In the hot seat: we’re sitting pretty on a velvet goldmine

Project unfinished: flick through Dimore Studio’s anthology-cum-catalogue

Trust Dimore Studio’s Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran to take the simple catalogue and transform it into a veritable work of art. Eschewing the simply printed, the easy to post or the heavy on information (and light on inspiration) commonly...

Black magic: we’re escaping to a better place with illusions of grandeur

World spanning: Molteni&C Dada opens flagship stores in Tehran and Vancouver

Italian furniture company Molteni&C Dada has just recently opened two new showrooms in Tehran and Vancouver. The Tehran showroom in the centre of the embassy district has been completely renovated to present the collections over a surface area of approximately...

Milan’s Mandarin Oriental adds a duet of Speciality Suites

The Mandarin Oriental recently added to its Milan outpost with a striking duet of Speciality Suites dedicated to two of the city’s design maestros: Giò Ponti and Piero Fornasetti. Italian studio Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners – the original...

Gavel talk: London’s Phillips stages a duo of design-minded auctions

This week, international auction house Phillips is staging a handful of star-studded sales in London’s Berkeley Square. As well as the imminent ’Time for Design’ auction, set to raise money for Kensington’s relocated Design Museum, Phillips is presenting a sale focusing...