Gio Ponti Furniture Re-Edition Molteni&C

photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
text by JEFF RYAN

All archive images taken from Heritage Collection: Gio Ponti, Werner Blaser, Yasuhiko Itoh, Afra e Tobia Scarpa published by Molteni&C courtesy of Gio Ponti Archives and Archivio Storico Molteni&C

Gio Ponti is a modernist master, and certainly the most famous Italian architect. He was involved in the Novecento art movement and, in 1928, founded Domus magazine, the bible of architecture. However, he is less recognized for his innovative furniture design, which was an essential part of his perfectionist aesthetic. Luckily, the manufacturer Molteni has reissued several of his pieces for its Heritage Collection.

Ponti apartment on Via Dezza, Milan, 1957

Gio Ponti wanted to be a painter. Instead, to calm his parents’ nervousness about a son they considered fragile — yet who was everything but — he trained as an…