Rating and value of Gio Ponti furniture, tables and armchairs

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Artist's rating and value

Gio Ponti is a 20th-century Italian designer, whose rating is only evolving positively on the art market. Highly prized by collectors in France, Italy, the UK and the USA, the artist's furniture has become a firm fixture on the international market. A piece of furniture by Gio Ponti can fetch hundreds of thousands of euros at auction. In 2015, one of his wooden coffee tables dating from 1930 sold for €310,000 while it was estimated at between €30,000 and €40,000, more than ten times the low estimate.

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The artist's works and style

Author of over 4,000 pieces of furniture throughout his career, this figure representing only works that circulated on the auction market, Gio Ponti's works are considered classics of Italian design. Among his iconic creations are his wooden tables and asymmetrical desks.

Considered functional, minimalist and innovative, Ponti's work is characterized by a clean aesthetic, geometric shapes and the use of modern materials. The designer's creations are intended to be functional and efficient, responding perfectly to users' needs.

Gio Ponti, Italian design icon

Gio Ponti was a Milanese artist born in 1891.

He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, but didn't graduate until 1921, the war having slowed things down. That same year, he founded his own architectural practice with two partners. At the same time, he worked as an illustrator, which explains the large number of drawings and prints on the art market. Two years later, he was appointed director of the porcelain manufacturer Richard - Ginori, and at this point in his career produced a great deal of painting on porcelain. He wins the Grand Prix for ceramics at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Thanks to this trip, Christofle commissioned him to build the Flying Angel in Saint Cloud, an early work that would form the basis of his theory on the new Italian architecture.

He continued to collaborate with Christofle, making furniture that was distributed by the Italian department store La Rinascente. He helped found Milian's Triennale d'art et d'architecture moderne.

In 1928, he founded the magazine Domus, whose aim was to encourage artistic expression in all its forms  it dealt not only with interior decoration and architecture, but also with work done in the other forms that art can take.

During the 1930s, he continued to perfect his theories, publishing works on the principles of modern architecture. After the war, he became one of the leading proponents of the architectural revival characteristic of the period. He built numerous buildings in Milan, but also received commissions throughout Europe, and in the United States, as well as in Singapore.

He died in 1979.

The designer's imprint on his time

Today considered an icon of Italian design and a pioneer of post-war modern architecture, Gio Ponti leaves a considerable mark on the history of contemporary art and furniture. He is the author of a colossal output, which collectors nevertheless vie for at auction.

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