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In 1938, Gio Ponti, a luminary of 20th-century Italian design, put pen to paper for his as-yet-unfinished Villa Marchesano in Bordighera on the Ligurian coast. Without walls, windows or doors, the drawing captured his intentions for the space: how it would be inhabited and how its residents might grow into it. Ponti believed that architecture should serve the lives of its occupants, creating environments that inspire and enrich daily living, and all of the life that he imagined the house would contain is scribbled on to this large sheet of tracing paper.
Like many of Gio Ponti's other pieces, the D.154.2 was conceived for a private client, the collectors Anala and Armando Planchart, as part of the project for their villa in Caracas, Venezuela.
“Ponti style” is a lifestyle that emerged through six decades of the creative practice of Gio Ponti (1891-1979).
Designers as Gio Ponti have long been attracted to the creative and intellectual freedom offered by maritime projects, and that continues to ring true today.
“Architecture is an interpretation of life”, wrote Gio Ponti. “Amare Gio Ponti”, the first documentary about his work, previewed at the 2015 Milano Design Film Festival, is dedicated to the great 20th century maestro.
An architectural fantasy,a virtuos display of spans, an acrobatic feat of proportions, a criss-cross of joints in Ponti's iconic project.
For private homes or for limited series, presented on the occasion of the 2012 Salone del Mobile. It is the result of in-depth research, selection and an analysis of prototypes, made possible thanks to cooperation and an exclusive agreement signed with Ponti’s heirs
