| Gio Ponti was always drawing. He drew Mediterranean villas and simple prototypes of homes by the sea. He drew magazines and their covers, costumes for the Scala Theater in Milan, enamelled copper objects, coffee machines and sewing machines, handles. He designed bureaus with Piero Fornasetti, headboards, bed covers, pottery, porcelain, majolica, organized walls, self-illuminating furniture, furnished windows, light and superlight chairs, ships, building façades during the day and during the night. He drew kaleidoscope rugs and floors. And he drew lamps. He didn’t draw many, some are just archive sketches. One of these is almost an inventory of pieces, each one indicated by a small letter of the alphabet, also drawn in pencil. A series of bases, different shapes, a tripod, a cone or a square grid that resembles that of a coffee table again drawn by him. The colour schemes are mainly blue in the tiles of the Hotel Parco dei Principi, or yellow and orange in his Milanese home/studio. The lampshades are also different, cone or truncated cone shapes, made of polypropylene, aluminum or brass. And now, from a drawing, they have become objects you can switch on. | . . . . #GrayeLA #GRAYEgallery #grayewesthollywood #newshowroom #comingsoon #gioponti #giopontidesign #giopontilamp #lamp #designerlamp #designerfurniture #italiandesign #1950sstyle #midcenturymodern #brasslamp #tripodlamp #timelessdesign #iconicdesign #designicon #madeinitaly #italiandesigner #italianstyle #grayeselects #grayestyle https://www.instagram.com/p/CXeWOhHPSMy/?utm_medium=tumblr