Gio Ponti - Taschen XL

The Gio Ponti Taschen book is the most comprehensive account of his work to date, unprecedented in scale and scope. It follows the development of Ponti's work over six decades, 136 projects indexed and reproduced in high resolution in a compelling 36 x 36 cm format. It is an immersive experience of the atmosphere of space, each object framed by the context in which Ponti created them. Like windows into his illusory life, previously unpublished materials and candid images create new dialogues between his famous masterpieces and his lesser-known undertakings. A rich layer of texts, with a biographical essay, has been produced in close collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archive offering an intimate view of his life's work. Materialising Ponti's central philosophy of modernity, it presents architecture as a performative object, a 'self-enlightening' stage for his humanistic art de vivre and boundless creativity.

To study Gio Ponti's prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear and unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, it expands like a crystal into intuitive facets with the Italian grandeur and studied lightness that defined his iconic style. Ponti's rare ability to move from the micro to the macro in a single stream of beauty allowed him to approach the design of a teaspoon with the same conviction as an entire city. The architect and the designer, the publisher and the poet, the artist and the man. The particular and the universal. A jewel in his own right, his contribution is a landmark of the mid-century Italian Renaissance and the modernist values he sought to realise.

Unique English edition book with Italian insert inside.