From the Richard – Ginori chinaware and the founding of Domus magazine
in the 1920’s & 1930’s; to the Pirelli Tower erected in Milan in the 1950s
To the “Facade” architecture of the 1970s

Gio Ponti has been a major force in the shaping of twentieth-century Italian design
The “Complete Work” presents a fully illustrated decade-by-decade account
of Ponti’s vast output in interior and industrial design, decorative arts and architecture

It describes his powerful influence on generations of Italian design, his contributions
to Italy’s urban culture and his roles as a propagandist and editor

Gio Ponti was not only an architect but a poet, painter, polemicist and designer
of exhibitions, theater costumes, Venini glasssware, tableware, furniture and
lighting. He is perhaps best known as the architect of Milan’s Pirelli Tower and
His “Super-leggera chair from the 1950’s

Above all, Ponti was responsible for the renewal of Italian Architecture and
decorative arts