Cover of Gio Ponti: More than One by Manfredo di Robilant, Manuel Orazi

Gio Ponti: More than One

Languages: English

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Gio Ponti: More than One, edited by Manfredo di Robilant and Manuel Orazi and published by Lars Müller Publishers in 2025, surveys Ponti's work as critic, editor, graphic artist, architect, and product designer. The 288-page English paperback, with photographs by Paolo Rosselli and new essays, follows Ponti from Richard Ginori and the founding of Domus through postwar architecture in Milan and commissions from Caracas to Tehran, Denver, Islamabad, and Eindhoven.

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For students, the book argues that Ponti cannot be reduced to a single discipline and is therefore a model for reading Italian modernism across media. It supports discussion of magazines as design practice, of product and furniture within an architectural career, and of how a designer builds a public language. On a university reading list it belongs with Italian Design and designer monographs.

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