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An Appropriately Monumental Book for the Prodigious Ponti

Published on , by Andrew Ayers

The publishing house Taschen has dedicated a book to the Italian master Gio Ponti: weighing 5.67 kg/ 12.5 lbs, its 572 pages include 136 of his projects and achievements.

  An Appropriately Monumental Book for the Prodigious Ponti
 
What to say about the phenomenon that is Gio Ponti? The first word that comes to mind is undoubtedly “prodigious”. Prodigious because of the longevity of a man who remained a major figure within the Italian scene throughout the “modern” era, from the 1920s to the 1970s; prodigious due to the ability of this versatile designer who excelled as much in…
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