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the interior of a building with green tile and wooden benches on either side of it

Gio Ponti’s cut-out cathedral in Taranto deserves a resurrection | The design of the Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio, as it became known, was inspired by its maritime surroundings. In place of a central crossing tower, Ponti came up with the idea of a ‘sail’. A kind of belfry without bells, the full width of the nave and 40m high, it is built from two concrete walls just a metre apart, perforated with vertical slits and hexagonal openings #architecture #design #cathedral

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a living room filled with furniture and a potted plant

Villa Planchart, perched a hilltop in El Cerrito in Caracas, Venezuela, and built in 1956 by Gio Ponti, is one of the classics of the modernist movement. Here Ponti designed not only the house, but most of the furniture and the decorative objects as well. It’s a great example of how lighthearted a home can be when the imagination is given free rein and allowed to express the personality… [images: Casa Vogue Brasil via Karina-Elbeso.blogspot.

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a room with green walls and wooden furniture

May 2, 2021Giovanni Ponti (1891–1979), better known by his nickname Gio, was arguably the most important figure in 20th-century Italian architecture and design. He is best known for his imposing buildings (his Pirelli Tower looms over Milan); his sometimes practical, sometimes impractical furniture (including, in the former category, the lightweight Superleggera chair, produced by Cassina […]

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