Conversation with the classics

Vase by Joe Ponty

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Julia Sakharova

Magazine: Decor N11 (133) 2008

The design of this vase belongs to the brilliant Italian architect, designer, writer and publisher. Joe Ponty. Maestro designed it in 1924. Then, in Europe, a new style has practically taken shape, which a year later will receive the name "ar-deko". In 1925, a vase was made in a porcelain factory Richard Ginori

Joe Ponty (1891-1979) was a person of a truly Renaissance scale. He designed houses, created monumental murals, designed the interiors of ocean liners, wrote books on the theory of architecture, and in 1928 became the publisher of the most authoritative architectural magazine Domus (since 2008). Russian version of Domus magazine publishes ID "SALON-PRESS"). Working in such "large" genres, he did not despise chamber genres. And even the opposite: he was pleased to design furniture, lamps, porcelain. For more than a decade, "Joe Ponty" - it's just a password collectors. The surface of the Conversazione Classica vase is completely covered with an intricate pattern that you need to go into in order to understand what the “talk” is all about. Here and a fragment of the ancient column, and a statue of Venus, and a man in a suit of the XVIII century, with a manuscript in his hand - not only as a philosopher and educator. Ponti worked on a vaza during the period of his fascination with the classics, reinterpreting it in the spirit of the “airborne” style ar-deko. He endowed painted objects and figures with more than elegant proportions: he had vases with incredibly thin “waists”, and people with small narrow legs and arms. In the twentieth century, this style of drawing will become very fashionable and will move to book graphics ... Vase Conversazione Classica is today in the museum of the factory RICHARD GINORI (Manufacturing of Doccia Museum).

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