[T.A.]In its essential features the biography of Giò Ponti expresses the creative vitality and extreme versatility of this brilliant artist. Painter, architect, pioneer of design talent from many activities, Giò Ponti graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1921.

1923 marks his debut in the field of figurative art as Director of Manufacturing Richard-Ginori. Although two years earlier, just graduated, he opened an architectural studio with Fennel and Flax Emilio Lancia.

For all the twenties, in fact, its architecture will give way to designer for Ginori. His official role in the company, lives with the impetus given to laboratory furnish Rinascente and in this context is developed the innovative concept that combines the poetic charm of industrial production.

Not by chance, when in 1928 he founded the magazine Domus, Gio Ponti seeks to "interest and document readers towards the problems artistic, spiritual and practical," The Management of Domus accompany him until his death (except for a brief interval from 1941 to 1947 which directs "Style") and those pages become the stage for new ideas and new tastes of the decorative arts, furniture and architecture.

Giò Ponti live in a very fascinating feature of his educational work. From 1936 to 1961 is professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, but his own art to educate the public towards the evolution of the aesthetic sense and the very idea of elegance.

Into the houses through Milan on Corso Venezia and Via De Togni, palaces Ferrania and Rai, the Torre del Parco Sempione metal, industrial design, with the famous chair "Super-light, designed for Cassina along with many others mobile light and of great simplicity and the many creations that range from lighting fixtures to furnishings ship (for the Andrea Doria, Conte Great, Julius Caesar), the medical equipment for Ideal Standard to the "typical solutions" as the window of arredata 1954.

When you turn off Giò Ponti in Milan in 1979, his inexhaustible artistic vein has not certainly completed, a certain uneasiness