Elegant and rare Gio Ponti pair of black toilette, vanity table – dressing table
produced by Giordano Chiesa for the Hotel Royal , 1955

Black lacquered Italian ash, brass, two drawers each;
brass feet
Measures: H 77cm, 95 x 47 cm; top: 45 x 95 cm
copy of original invoice of the Hotel Royal is available on request
Sold with a copy of a letter of authentication from Lisa Licitra Ponti.
the original Fontana Arte mirror are available on request but not included in the price

Very good original condition
Architect Cristina Longo laquered in black in 2005’s the original Gio Ponti vanity toilette for a private commission in Rome in limited edition of 10.

Provenance: Hotel Royal Naples, Private collection, Rome

Exhibited: Centoventi Gio Ponti: Designer Senza Tempo, 26 February – 6 March 2011, Mercanteinfiera, Parma ( exhibition curated by the owner of the collection). the item is published on the cover of the invitation
Architectural Digest AD, Italian edition, march 2010, cover (published in the background in the house of the owner of the collection).
CAMERE D’ARTISTA italian design 1930-1960 Villa Bertelli Forte dei Marmi ,Lucca Italy 24 july-14 sept. 2014.

Literature: Gio Ponti: L’Arte Si Innamora Dell’Industria, La Pietra, ppg. 365, 367;
Domus, no. 317, April 1956, no. 318, May 1956,
Domus no. 325, December 1956, for a Dassi advertisement
Fabrizio Mautone “Gio Ponti LA COMMITTENZA FERNANDES” Electa Napoli 2009 pag.14,39,48,49.
Irene de Guttry e Maria Paola Maino, Il mobile italiano degli anni ’40 e ’50, Bari, 2010, p. 151, ill. 15