Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti
(1891-1979)
Rare two drawer console table
Walnut, brass stretchers & sabots
Produced by Giordano Chiesa
c. 1950
Italy
Height 89 cm
Width 153 cm
Depth 50 cm
An early example of this model can be seen in the RAI offices, Milan in 1939, also seen in situ in the Cremaschi living room in 1948.
This model was probably made to order and in a small series.
Certificate of expertise Gio Ponti Archives
Bibliography
Domus, ‘Exhibition of Furniture at Ferdinand Lundquist in Gothenburg, Sweden’, 1955, p. 48 model variant illustrated
‘Gio Ponti – Life and Works, 1923-1979’, Stefano Casciano ed. Taschen, 2021
  
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