Italian Postmodern Glass Green Plastic Pocket Emptier Bowl by Cleto Munari, 2000

Italian postmodern Glass and green plastic vase by Cleto Munari, 2000s Hemispherical vase in perforated glass. There are small threads of light green plastic in the holes. It has a ...

Italian Post-modern wood and mirror vase by Cleto Munari, 2000s Vase with central oval mirror structure. In the upper part it presents the opening. On th...

Italian Post-modern Unique prototype vase Veronese in Murano glass by Cleto Munari, 2002 Vase mod. Veronese in black Murano glass, unique piece as a prototype of the vase that later...

Italian Post-modern wood Totem mod. Disordinato by Cleto Munari, 2020s Totem mod. Disordinato, unique piece from this collection. The totem has a square base structure in white pain...

Italian Post-modern wood Totems mod. Disordinati by Cleto Munari, 2020s Pair of totems mod. Disordinati, unique pieces from this collection. The totem ...

Italian modern Decorative bowl in green light blue Murano glass by Venini, 1990s Decorative bowl with a round base in light blue aqua-green Murano glass. Perfect as a centerpiece or ...

Elegant box midcentury silver plate decorative box. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s by Benaglia for Cleto Munari. The master combination of silver plat...

Wonderful Mid-Century silver plated serving plate or vide poche designed and signed by Gio Ponti for Cleto Munari, in Italy during the 1980s. The flat and efficient design on two round decentered levels, make this piece simply irresistible and iconic for midcentury lovers. In amazing conditions with no scratches on the top. This piece will smarten a midcentury living room or a minimal bar. 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...

A silver plated square tray designed by Mattia Pastorino for Forme Contemporanee di Cleto Munari, other important designers like Carlo Scarpa and Gio Ponti cooperate for this series ...

Beautiful rectangular Modern Centerpiece bowl designed by Alessandro Mendini and Cleto Munari. Made of 4 pointed murrina glass in the style of the great maestro Carlo Scarpa. Limite...

Tiny glass table clock by Cleto Munari. Heavy transparent sphere with silver stripe lays on a black glass plinth.

Marvelous tiffany blue glass bowl in Murano glass. This gorgeous piece was designed in Murano, Italy in the 1960s. This large bowl is in amazing conditions with no chips. It is mad...