Casa di Fantasia

This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Phillips in London on March 21, 2019. The staff at Phillips together with help from the Gio Ponti Archives were able to stage a recreation of one of Gio Ponti and Piero Fornasetti's most remarkable interior designs. Essays by Brian Kish and Salvatore Licitra, Curator of the Gio Ponti Archives and grandson of Ponti. The Casa Lucano, a large apartment in the elegant Fiera district in the north west of Milan, was completed in 1951. The interiors of this apartment were like stage sets. Designed by Ponti and Piero Fornasetti they included case furniture, wall decorations, screens, and other pieces of decorative art. Works by Gambone, Fausto Melotti and furniture designed by Fornasetti or Ponti and painted by Edwina Altera. There are a number of vintage black & white photographs of the apartment in the 1950's. The sale had 30 lots. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheet, just price estimates for each lot. 10" high X 9" wide, about 60 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.