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| Laurel floor lamp attributed to Gio Ponti |
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| Top view of lamp |
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| Front close-up of lamp |
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| Side close-up of lamp |
Showing posts with label Gio Ponti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gio Ponti. Show all posts
Thursday, April 24, 2014
In the store: Gio Ponti lamp
This stunning Laurel lamp attributed to Gio Ponti is now in the store. It has a gorgeous profile and is in overall very good vintage condition, with only an age-appropriate scratch here and there.
Monday, February 17, 2014
In the store: Gio Ponti dining chairs
These gorgeous dining chairs were designed by the masterful Gio Ponti for Cassina. They have been fully restored and are the epitome of simplicity and beauty. They are absolutely stunning.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Paolo Buffa
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| Paolo Buffa |
He was a prolific architect, but his real passion was designing furniture. His works range from the traditional and ornate to the futuristic, but they are all of exceptional quality and refinement. His clients were generally quite wealthy and wanted their homes furnished with elegantly modern, functional pieces.
In 1945 he began a collaboration with Ico Parisi that lasted a decade, during which time they designed simple, bare interiors. In 1947 Buffa was invited, along with several other well known Italian designers, to participate in the exhibition The Modern Style of Furnishing, which celebrated the rebirth of inventiveness and elegance in Italian design. The exhibition was repeated in 1948 in Paris, where it was very well received.
Some of Buffa's notable projects were the Royal Palace of the King of Albania in 1940, the Quirinale Hotel in Rome in 1951, the furnishing of the royal yacht of King Farouk of Egypt in 1952 and the furnishing of the cruise liner Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1950s.
From animalidomestici.co.uk, colquide.com and lampedo.com
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| Sofa michelcontessa.com |
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| Bar cabinet with inlaid brass stars 1stdibs.com |
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| Rosewood side table 1stdibs.com |
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| Lounge chair for the Hotel Bristol in Merano, Italy collage.1stdibs.com |
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| Console table henrymausantiques.com |
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| Cabinet swanklighting.com |
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| Dining chairs phillipsdepury.com |
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| Glass-topped bar cabinet demosmobilia.ch |
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| Close-up of glass-topped bar, open demosmobilia.ch |
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Bertha Schaefer
In 1924 she opened Bertha Schaefer Interiors where she worked to incorporate fine arts and architecture with interior design. In 1944 she opened the Bertha Schaefer Gallery of Contemporary Art. Her firm and gallery featured American and European painting and sculpture and was instrumental in launching the careers of many artists and designers.
Her exhibitions often included economical designs that were well-crafted and beautiful and were suited to postwar mass production. In particular, she promoted lighting fixtures, and as early as 1939 was using decorative fluorescent lighting. Her firms work included interior and furniture design for private homes, apartments, hotel lobbies and restaurants. In 1954 she designed a model bathroom for General Electric.
Schaefer's designs caught the attention of Joe Singer of M. Singer and Sons Furniture Company of New York City. She designed furniture for that company from 1950 to 1961, often working with Gio Ponti.
Her professional accomplishments and academic contributions brought her invitations to participate in many round-table discussions and design juries sponsored by museums and universities. She won design awards from the Museum of Modern Art (1952) and the Decorators Club of New York (1959). She was also a member of the American Institute of Decorators, the Home Lighting Forum, the Illuminating Engineers Society, the Architectural League of New York, the American Federation of the Arts and the Art Dealers Association of America.
From jwa.org
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| Dining set, with Gio Ponti mutualart.com |
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| Upholstered armchairs dualmodern.com |
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| Desk mondocane.com |
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| Coffee table wright20.com |
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| Coffee table wright20.com |
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| Sideboard 1stdibs.com |
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| Sofa we just won at auction It was sold as a Schaefer piece, but we're not sure. |
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gio Ponti
During the course of his career, he also designed glassware, lighting, furniture and housewares. He was a professor or architecture and wrote a number of books on art, design and architecture.
In 1928 Ponti founded the design and architecture magazine Domus and remained its editor for many years. In 1933 he was a co-founder of the important Milan Triennale. The Pirelli Building is considered his architectural masterpiece, along with the Denver Art Museum. His best known designs are the Superleggera chair (1957) for Cassina, the glass and lighting he created for Venini (1946-1950) and the coffee machine he designed for La Pavoni (1948).
From ponti-gio.com
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| La Pavoni coffee machine designmuseum.org |
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| Superleggera chair for Cassina cassina.com |
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| Venini glass antiquehelper.com |
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| Venini glass liveauctioneers.com |
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| Chandelier 1stdibs.com |
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| Distex lounge chair icollector.com |
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| Cane bench treadwaygallery.com |
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| White leather armchairs center44.com |
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| Display case wright20.com |
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| Executive desk wright20.com |
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| Rocking chair 1stdibs.com |
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| Sideboard icollector.com |
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
And the winner of this round of "Name That Designer" is...
A few weeks ago, I posted a picture of a chair I'd bought in Austin and asked if any of you had information or ideas about it. Several of you said you were as clueless as I was.
My friend "Mid-Century Joe" was here recently delivering my latest purchase, and he casually remarked that he loved "that style of chair," offhandedly pointing in the direction of my Mystery Chair. I told him I'd been trying for weeks to find out something about it, so he shared his thoughts with me.
While we both agreed the chair is definitely vintage, he's pretty sure it's one of many "copycat pieces" mass-produced by small furniture companies in the 50s and 60s. In his opinion, the straight, sharply slanted arms (though not the button back) were inspired by a couple of Gio Ponti designs...his Diamond chair and another chair he designed for the Parco dei Principi in Rome.
After looking at pictures of the two chairs, I think he's very likely right on all counts. My chair may be a little "in the manner of" wannabe that I got cheap, but I still love it, and I'm really happy that I finally know something about the design inspiration. Joe wins this round of the game!
My friend "Mid-Century Joe" was here recently delivering my latest purchase, and he casually remarked that he loved "that style of chair," offhandedly pointing in the direction of my Mystery Chair. I told him I'd been trying for weeks to find out something about it, so he shared his thoughts with me.
While we both agreed the chair is definitely vintage, he's pretty sure it's one of many "copycat pieces" mass-produced by small furniture companies in the 50s and 60s. In his opinion, the straight, sharply slanted arms (though not the button back) were inspired by a couple of Gio Ponti designs...his Diamond chair and another chair he designed for the Parco dei Principi in Rome.
After looking at pictures of the two chairs, I think he's very likely right on all counts. My chair may be a little "in the manner of" wannabe that I got cheap, but I still love it, and I'm really happy that I finally know something about the design inspiration. Joe wins this round of the game!
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| My little copycat chair |
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| Gio Ponti chair for Parco dei Principi in Rome spinkfurniture.co.uk |
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| Gio Ponti Diamond chairs phillipsdupury.com |
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