“Study and Dressing Rooms” by 4 Artists to be sold at Phillips’ “Casa Di Fantasia”
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“Study and Dressing Rooms” by Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti, Edina Altara, and Guido Gambone will go under the hammer at Phillips’ upcoming auction, “Casa Di Fantasia” that will take place on March 21, 2019, in London. The present artwork will be feat“Study and Dressing Rooms” by 4 Artists to be sold at Phillips’ “Casa Di Fantasia”
“Study and Dressing Rooms” by Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti, Edina Altara, and Guido Gambone will go under the hammer at Phillips’ upcoming auction, “Casa Di Fantasia” that will take place on March 21, 2019, in London. The present artwork will be featured in lot 310 at the auction with a pre-auction estimate of £80,000 - 120,000. “With the completion of the Casa Lucano in 1951, a large apartment in the elegant Fiera district in the North West of Milan, Gio Ponti reached the apex of his quest for the Fantasy Home, a type of house that echoes both Italian Metaphysical and French Surrealist art of the early and mid-twentieth-century within the domestic realm. This approach has almost no equivalent in pre-war Europe except perhaps in Le Corbusier’s ‘Beistegui apartment’ (1929-31) and Carlo Mollino’s ‘Devalle apartment’ (1939-40). It is a testimony to the inspired patronage emerging from the dynamic cultural environment of that period. Soon after the war, Ponti harnessed those currents with resounding success in Milan, where he engaged in constant dialogue with his peers and his patrons among the enlightened Milanese society,” states the auction house. The composition of the present work includes burr walnut-veneered wood, lithographic transfer-printed wood, painted wood, reverse-painted mirrored glass, painted glass, glass, brass-covered wood, brass, painted brass, glazed ceramic, and acrylic. The interiors are executed by Giordano Chiesa, Milan, Italy and wall lights are manufactured by Greco, Italy. Adding further details about the present artwork, the press release states, “Next to the burled wood panels, wall surfaces, and furniture by Fornasetti competed for attention in the room he staged together with Ponti. He employed trompe l’oeil images and vistas using laminates and vinyl to produce faux wood grains that played against the actual burl wood, not to mention the billowing plethora of printed fabrics sealing up all window surfaces.” The auction house adds, “Further enhancing this somewhat unsettling environment were the numerous figurines and detached hands executed in fine stoneware or slip-glazed terracotta by Richard-Ginori and Gabbianelli. Dispersed throughout the many interpenetrating rooms, they mysteriously appeared as aberrations, embedded in illuminated brass sconce-like objects made by Greco. Since these anthropomorphic objects occupied small lit spaces, unto themselves, they tended to alleviate the hermetic condition of the apartment, as did other hidden lighting elements at the window sills.”https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more