Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

98 c   (PONTI, GIO.) Ponti, Lisa Licitra. Gio Ponti: The CompleteWork: 1923-1978. Foreword by Germano Celant. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates arranged by decade. Folio, cloth; dust jacket. Printed and bound in Florence, Italy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990   [400/600] the scarce first complete survey and thematic profile on ponti , the prolific 20th century Italian architect, industrial and furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer, and publisher. From the Richard-Ginori chinaware and the founding of Domus magazine in the 1920s and ’30s, to the Pirelli tower erected in Milan in the 1950s to the “facade” architecture of the ’70s, Ponti has been a major force in the shaping of twentieth-century Italian design. With selected writings, extensive notes, biographical profile, bibliography, and chronologies of works, exhibitions, and more. 99 c   VENTURI, ROBERT. “Knoll Center/Ceiling Design.” Lithograph on paper. 216x305 mm; 8 1 / 2 x12 inches, sheet. Titled, numbered 85/1000, and Signed by Venturi in pencil, lower margin. Tipped to window matte. This lithograph illustrates the ceiling Venturi designed for the Knoll showroom in New York. [New York], 1989   [800/1,200] 98 99