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Midcentury Credenza La Permanente Mobili Cantù, Gio Ponti Attributed, Polished

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Italian credenza sideboard by La Permanente Mobili Cantù, Gio Ponti attributed, polished to wax, circa 1950s. Legs and contours in solid blond walnut. Flat surfaces in walnut veneer and internal parts in mahogany veneer. Measures cm: H 170, W 93, D 42 (internal shelves H 45cm, upper compartment H 32cm). La Permanente Mobili Cantù The History of Furniture cannot forget the history of an important reality which has become an institution such as that represented by the CONSORZIO ESPOSIZIONE MOBILI CANTU, born and strongly desired in 1893 on the initiative of a group of qualified craftsmen from Cantù. The intent was to join forces to be able to exhibit their products to the public, especially Milanese ones at the time, in a single large building. It was thus possible to offer a global vision of the furniture production of the Cantù context, encouraging its sale, but not only. It was and has remained an important moment of aggregation for its members, useful for comparing and exchanging experiences and knowledge. Experiences and knowledge that have contributed to the success of Cantù furniture throughout the world. The recognized professionalism of the members of the La Permanente Mobili consortium, founded mainly on the imitation of styles of the past, around the 1930s brought authoritative and extraordinary exponents of not only Italian architectural culture to Cantù with whom they had the opportunity to compare and renew themselves thanks to important projects that were formally very different from those created up until then. Projects that decree the start of lasting collaborations and will give impetus to glorious initiatives such as the Selective Furniture Exhibitions, events that have contributed to electing Cantù as the center of international design. One of the winning strategies that allowed the Cantù artisans, members of La Permanente to be appreciated over time was the choice not to specialize in a single style or in a single type of product, but to have proposed and created, often with extraordinary results, artefacts responding to the different stylistic trends emerging in furnishing and design culture. Renovating themselves in their aesthetic and formal language, aided by new materials and technologies, demonstrating sensitivity and awareness: qualities that have favored their growth and emancipation. About Gio Ponti Giovanni “Gio” Ponti (born November 18, 1891, Milan, Italy–died September 16, 1979, Milan, Italy) was one of the most influential Italian architects, industrial designers, furniture designers, artists, and publishers of the 20th century. He is considered the father of modern Italian design and is associated with the development of modern architecture in Italy. Throughout his long creative career, which spanned more than six decades, Gio Ponti created numerous furniture, decorative art, and industrial product designs using artisanal and modern production techniques, in addition to creating important works of architecture in Italy and abroad. Early Influence Of Decorative Arts In Gio Ponti’s Approach to Architecture, Product, and Furniture Design Ponti graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1921. In 1923, he started his first industrial design work designing ceramics for the Richard Ginori pottery factory, close to Florence. Two years later, he convinced Richard Ginori to participate in the Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (a 1925 Paris exposition), where Ponti’s ceramic designs were very successful. During this time, Ponti forged a lasting relationship with Christofle executive and shareholder Tony Bouilhet, who later married Ponti’s niece–Carla Borletti–and for whom he designed Villa Bouilhet at the Saint-Cloud golf club near Paris, one of Ponti’s earliest house designs. During his 15-year involvement with the Richard Ginori pottery factory, but especially during the early years, Gio Ponti collaborated with craftsmen and artisans to create rich designs with abundant colors, elaborate shapes, and skilled craftsmanship, mostly in the neoclassical style. This style and approach was at great odds with the functional and minimal approach of the then-prevalent Italian Rationalism, and it was distinctly present in Ponti’s work in the 1930s and 1940s, becoming less so over later years. Gio Ponti Founds Domus Magazine, A Platform For The Emerging Italian Modernist Design In 1928, Ponti started Domus, an architecture and design magazine with a mission to energize Italian architecture, interior design, and decorative arts. In his first editorial, as well as in several of his later writings at Domus, Ponti articulates some differences regarding the Italian house, La casa all’italiana, in which he suggests that the Italian house “does not just consist in the correspondence of things to necessities and needs of our life or in the organization of services” and that the house is “meant to shape our thoughts, suggest simple and healthy habits, invite to peaceful and serene recreation thanks to its opening towards nature.” His leadership at Domus would allow him to play a pivotal role in this interwar period by asserting the Italian perspective and tradition to the European modernist trends of the time and by expressing his consideration to the ideas regarding the Novecento artistic movement, a counter-movement to Rationalismo.
  • Attributed to:
    Gio Ponti (Designer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 66.93 in (170 cm)Width: 36.62 in (93 cm)Depth: 16.54 in (42 cm)
  • Style:
    Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1950s
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Vigonza, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FK251stDibs: LU249539901321

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