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A coffee table book with its own coffee table....Gio Ponti on the Planchart Coffee Table
Architecture | 11.05.2021

TASCHEN Verlag presents Gio Ponti: A coffee table book that comes with its own coffee table

In 1935 George Nelson opined that "the history of art in Italy presents the astonishing spectacle of a series of men who knew no boundaries between the arts"; a history, a tradition, Nelson saw continued into 1930s Italy through "the cheering example of Gio Ponti, who found early in life that no one profession was sufficient to use up his energy or exhaust his interests, and added others with the nonchalance of a small boy increasing his collection of marbles".1 A borderless, inexhaustible

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