Cleto Munari Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Modernist Silver Plate Pitcher, designed by Carlo Scarpa for Cleto Munari, Italy, circa 1970s. It has been hand polished.

Amazing mid-century silver plate serving plate. Gio Ponti designed and signed this astonishing item for Cleto Munari in Italy during the 1980s. The flat and efficient design on two round levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers. This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or minimal and chromed bar. This wonderful piece is in very good general condition. Dimensions (cms): diameter - 32 Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century. Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas. Gio Ponti was an Italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea of interior furnishing ranges produced as being a "sophisticated," economic, "democratic" and modern. Molteni&C managed a reissuing project of furniture and furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for products for these private homes and limited editions. After a long journey of research, selection and study of prototypes, the collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile 2012. This was thanks to the cooperation and the exclusively signed agreement of the Ponti heirs and the artistic director of Cerri & Associati Studio. Gio Ponti graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan at the end of World War I, after he fought on the front line earning military decorations. In 1921 he married Giulia Vimercati, with whom he had four children: Lisa, Giovanna, Letizia and Giulio. In 1927 he opened a studio in Milan with the architect Emilio Lancia. From the beginning of the 1920’s until 1938 he worked with Richard-Ginori Manufactory and renewed its production. In 1928 he founded the Domus magazine with Gianni Mazzocchi. In 1933 he became the artistic director of Fontana Arte which was another success after the one he obtained with Richard-Ginori. In the 1930’s he participated in the Triennale exhibitions and later he successfully managed a few of them. From 1936 to 1961 he was a professor at the Milan Polytechnic, and in 1933 was associated with Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini, until 1945. From this partnership major projects were born, including the Montecatini Palace in Milan from 1936 to 1938, in which Ponti created the "integral design" of the building and the interiors. Other works of the period were civil architecture, including the Littoria Tower in Milan in 1933, school buildings such as the School of Mathematics at the University City Rome in 1934 and the Humanities Faculty and the Rectorate of the University of Padua in 1937. There were also residential projects such as Casa Marmont in 1934 and Milan "Domus" from 1931 to 1936. The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this a perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...

Brass plate by Carlo Scarpa for Cleto Munari, Forme Contemporanee GFT, 1970s Square and thin sculpture plate in gilded brass produced by Cleto Munari in 1970s and designed by Carlo ...

Blue Murano glass "Collection" ashtray for Cleto Munari. This fantastic piece was designed and signed by Carlo Nason in Italy during the 1980s. The way this incredible piece incorporates and reflects the light it's just breathtaking, as it is visible the astonishing manual sculptural work on the concave part of the tray. The perfect item to complete a living room with clear tones or a minimal studio. Italian designer Carlo Nason was born into a family of expert glassmakers in 1935 in Murano, Venice. His father, Vincenzo Nason, directed the renowned glass business NasonMoretti and opened a second glass business under the name Vincenzo Nason & C in 1941. From an early age, the younger Nason received training in the art of glassblowing, learning about both the properties of the material and the artisanal techniques used in glass moulding and decoration. The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...

Amazing midcentury centrepiece Murano glass and silver-plated finishes. This fantastic piece was designed in Italy by Cleto Munari during the 1980s. This wonderful item is made of vivid Murano green glass with eight silver-plated pineapples. A fantastic vase that will complete a table or a serving set. Born in Gorizia, Italy, Cleto Munari describes himself as a Globetrotter, collector, and inventor. He met the prominent Italian architect Carlo Scarpa in the 1970s and, with him, started producing objects in precious metal. In 1985 he set up a workshop-studio for the manufacture of unique objects in collaboration with some of the greatest architects, designers, artists, and writers in the world, among them Mario Botta, Alessandro Mendini, Alvaro Siza Vieira...

A silver plated square tray made in Italy in the 1980s, it's signed by Sami Wirkkala and made by Cleto Munari.

A Gio Ponti set of three plates made for Cleto Munari, signed on the bottom, good conditions overall, Dimension of the medium one diameter cm 22, dimension of the small one diameter ...

A round tray designed by Gio' Ponti for Cleto Munari, signed Gio' Ponti on the front and Cleto Munari on the bottom, good conditions overall.

A Mid-Century Modern Italian tray designed by Mattia Pastorino for Cleto Munari, signs on the front and on the bottom, it has been cleaned and now it's in very good conditions.

Silver plated Carlo Scarpa pitcher in Minimalist design. Stamped on the base Carlo Scarpa per Cleto Munari and 1000/1000. One small ship in the si...

It's a silver plated squared tray designed by Carlo Scarpa for Cleto Munari, it's signed Carlo Scarpa on the front as visible in a photo, and...

A hand-tarnished, silver plated martini pitcher. Signed 'C. Scarpa per cleto munari.'