Gio Ponti vanity desk console table with a adjustable Fontana arte mirror, 1950

Description

rare Gio Ponti toilette, vanity table dressing table one drawer with an adjustable brass mirror by Fontana Arte produced by Giordano Chiesa for Dassi circa 1950 walnut, olive wood veneer, brass and mirror glass feet painted dark ;very good original conditions Measures: H 128cm (79,5cm without the mirror support) 100 x 55 cm top: 55 x 100 cm; mirror: 35 cm dia this vanity is comes from a private furniture (1950-1950) of whose furnishings we know 2 other vanities and a pair of consoles sold in different Auction house in the past; this model was a prototype for a famous and very well known toilette used by Gio Ponti for the private furniture of the Hotel Royal in Naples in 1955 and then in 1964 for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome and in Sorrento. the refined details of the fake drawers on the sides of the desk and the adjustable and removable mirror make this prototype a very valuable piece In 28/05/2019 a similar vanity was sold at Artcurial Auction in Paris at €29.900 Literature: Gio Ponti: L'Arte Si Innamora Dell'Industria, La Pietra, ppg. 365, 367; Domus, no. 317, April 1956, no. 318, May 1956, and no. 325, December 1956, for a Dassi advertisement Fabrizio Mautone "Gio Ponti LA COMMITTENZA FERNANDES" Electa Napoli 2009 pag.14,39,48,49.

walnut, brass, glass, mirror

Measures: H 128cm (79,5cm without the mirror support) 100 x 55 cm top: 55 x 100 cm; mirror: 35 cm dia

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Dimensions

H 128cm (79,5cm without the mirror support) 100 x 55 cm top: 55 x 100 cm; mirror: 35 cm dia