D.270.1 D.270.2

Chair

Gio Ponti, 2014

Chairs D.270.1 and D.270.2 are part of Apta, a series of furniture pieces designed for a new take on the home and presented in 1970 by Gio Ponti at the Eurodomus 3 fair in Milan. “And so we have a new wide chair with a narrow, foldable seat”. So wrote Ponti when describing the creation of a chair that was different from other chairs.

Design Gio Ponti, 2014

A chair that could be used for chatting, reading or watching television.

Design

Gio Ponti

Giovanni “Gio” Ponti, (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, September 16, 1979), is one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist and one of the most important of the twentieth century.
Other than the great architectural works which carry his unmistakable signature, he created a vast amount of work in the furniture sector. This is demonstrated in his three Milanese houses which were fully furnished in the "Ponti" style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 is an "expression" of his home design ideas.

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"[...] The majority of the objects in our lives are created and characterised by industry [...]"

Gio Ponti