Giovanni «Gio» Ponti (Milan, 18 November 1891 – Milan, 16 September 1979) was one of the Italian masters of architecture. He was also a designer and essayist, and one of the most important of the 20th century.
In addition to the great architectural works that bear his unmistakable signature, he created a vast number of works in the furniture sector. Proof of this are his three Milanese houses fully furnished in the “Ponti” style. The houses in via Randaccio, 1925, Casa Laporte in via Brin, 1926 and the last in via Dezza, in 1957 are an “expression” of his ideas of housing design. Gio Ponti was an Italian promoter of industrial design and introduced the idea that the ranges of interior furnishings produced should be “sophisticated”, “economical”, “democratic” and modern.
Molteni&C managed a project to reissue furniture and furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for products intended for these private homes and limited editions. After a long process of research, selection and study of prototypes, the collection was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile 2012. All this thanks to the collaboration and the agreement signed exclusively by Ponti's heirs and the artistic director of the Cerri & Associati studio.