Rating and value of Gio Ponti furniture, tables and armchairs

If you own a work by or based on the artist Gio Ponti and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers can help you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Then, if you wish to sell your work of art, we will guide you towards the best possible means of obtaining the best possible price.

Artist's rating and value

Gio Ponti is a twentieth-century Italian designer whose reputation on the art market continues to grow. Highly prized by collectors in France, Italy, the UK and the USA, the artist's furniture has become a firm fixture on the international market. A piece of furniture by Gio Ponti can fetch hundreds of thousands of euros at auction. In 2015, one of his wooden coffee tables dating from 1930 sold for €310,000 against an estimate of €30,000 to €40,000, more than ten times the low estimate.

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The artist's works and style

The creator of more than 4,000 pieces of furniture over the course of his career (this figure represents only those works that circulated on the auction market), Gio Ponti's works are considered classics of Italian design. Among his iconic creations are his wooden tables and asymmetrical desks.

Considered functional, minimalist and innovative, Ponti's work is characterized by clean aesthetics, geometric shapes and the use of modern materials. The designer's creations are intended to be functional and efficient, responding perfectly to users' needs.

Gio Ponti, Italian design icon

Gio Ponti was born in Milan in 1891.

He studied at Milan Polytechnic, but didn't graduate until 1921, the war having slowed things down. That same year, he founded his own architectural practice with two partners. At the same time, he worked as an illustrator, which explains the large number of drawings and prints on the art market. Two years later, he was appointed director of the porcelain manufacturer Richard - Ginori, and at this point in his career produced a great deal of painting on porcelain. He wins the Grand Prix for ceramics at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Thanks to this trip, Christofle commissioned him to build the Flying Angel in Saint Cloud, an early work that laid the foundations for his theory of the new Italian architecture.

He continues to collaborate with Christofle, designing furniture for the Italian department store La Rinascente. He helps found the Milian Triennial of Modern Art and Architecture.

In 1928, he founded the magazine Domus, whose aim was to promote artistic expression in all its forms; it dealt not only with interior design and architecture, but also with work in other forms that art can take.

During the 1930s, he continued to perfect his theories, publishing works on the principles of modern architecture. After the war, he became one of the leading proponents of the architectural revival of the period. He built numerous buildings in Milan, but also received commissions throughout Europe, in the United States and in Singapore.

He died in 1979.

The designer's mark on the times

Today considered an icon of Italian design and a pioneer of post-war modern architecture, Gio Ponti has left a considerable mark on the history of contemporary art and furniture. He is the author of a colossal output, which collectors still fight over at auction.

Appraising your property

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