Important chest of drawers, ca. 1955
Painted wood, mahogany-veneered wood, rosewood-veneered wood, elm-veneered wood, walnut-veneered wood, oak, brass. 35 1/4 x 72 7/8 x 20 3/4 in. (89.5 x 185.1 x 52.7 cm.)
Manufactured by Giordano Chiesa, Italy and designed for Gio Ponti’s exhibition staged by the Ferdinand Lundquist company in Gothenburg, Sweden. Together with a certificate of authenticity from the Ponti Archives.
PROVENANCE Liberty's, London; Private Collection, London
EXHIBITED "Gio Ponti," Ferdinand Ludquist Company, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1955; Galleria del Sole, Milan, 1956; Liberty's, London, 1957
LITERATURE Lisa Licitra Ponti, Gio Ponti: The Complete Work 1923-1978, London, 1990, p. 177; Ugo La Pietra, Gio Ponti, New York, 1996, p. 197, fig. 416; Laura Falconi, Gio Ponti: Interni, Oggetti, Disegni 1920-1976, Rome, 2007, p. 177
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