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...“I was really inspired by Gio Ponti’s burr panelling that was sold at Phillips a few years back,” he says of Ponti’s dashboard walls, a multifunctional system produced in the ’40s featuring shelves, drawers...
...As founder of the Fiat car company, Giovanni Agnelli (Gianni Agnelli’s grandfather) used to say in the 1920s “industrialists are ministerial by definition”....
...Drawing inspiration from Gio Ponti, it is the focal point of a lighting collection first shown at New York gallery Tiwa Select last September, which also includes the two-tone Suolo table lamp and the plant-like...
...“When I create a piece,” he told me, “I’m my own client. I always think that if I like it then someone else will.”...
...“I want it to be serene,” Tessier told me. “I want it to feel as though you are floating above London, somewhere very peaceful. I want it to seem out of this world.”...
...Also shown in the exhibition was “Spawns”, a collection of silver spoons made in a collaboration between jeweller Gio Sampietro and future-focused design studio OIO....
...“I feel I can be here with a higher degree of legitimacy, safety even, because I bring these things here; I can face the existential awkwardness of being here.”...
...“I like to think I’m a yes person: I’m like, ‘Yeah, of course we can do that,’” he says....
...Apartment lobbies I start not with a particular place but with an archetype....
...From here you can also admire Milan’s other two Modernist towers, the sleek Pirelli Tower, designed by Gio Ponti and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1958) and the Velasca (BBPR, 1958), a Proto-Brutalist object...
...Sand, I’ve found, is the best form of childcare, which is why my favourite meals are on beaches. Marina Gio, a restaurant a short drive from the villa, fulfilled the brief perfectly....
...I hated them with an energy that afterwards was hard to account for.”...
...The store is a tribute to the decorative arts, past and present, and contains an extraordinary collection of furniture, objets and sculpture, by designers including Gio Ponti, André Dubreuil and Ettore Sottsass...
...I don’t know how you can sell a chair for €100. I can’t even get the basic supplies I need to oil and sand a piece for that price.”...
...“I wish I could tell you exactly,” she says. “But what I remember is it gives you lots of playfulness and joy.”...
...“I wanted to get involved in the process because I really believe in the impact that specific things can have on the way you feel. But it was so difficult to find pieces I felt were interesting.”...
...For more 20th-century art, I’d visit Museo del Novecento, and I’m also a big fan of Gio Ponti so I’d recommend a trip to the Pirelli Tower....
...“Being married to an art dealer [Ben Brown] and being surrounded by artists, I thought, ‘I’ll fix that.’”...
...Inspired by traditional Mediterranean architecture, the arches lead the eye towards a dining area with a stainless-steel kitchen at the centre and a Gio Ponti table covered by a trompe-l’oeil embroidered...
...Milan, June 2022: I am standing in a salmon-pink room gazing at an artwork by the late designer and architect Aldo Rossi....
...It has my amazing Gio Ponti bed, which I bought from an old hotel, and my books, but the best thing is the mattress....
...“The decoration is 100 per cent from Omega Workshops,” says Morgan-Cox, “but I was also inspired by Fontana paintings, Gio Ponti furniture, and a Victorian British designer named Charles Bevan who made very...
...The shelves were filled with numerous variations of Armani’s 1984 original, as well as Acqua di Giò and Code....
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...“I had to face life on a practical level,” she recalled, so she started making applied art — fabrics, scarves, bags, belts, carpets — “in order to continue living in the climate I so adored, namely, freedom...
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