Giangaspare Mingiona - Pietro Chiesa - Dalla Fucine dei vetri a Fontana Arte. - 2024

Pietro Chiesa - From the Glass Foundries to Fontana Arte.

Contents see photos 4 and 5.

A splendid document about an important designer at the dawn of the 20th century.

Dozens of illustrations (see photos)

Excellent condition.

"Pietro Chiesa, master glassmaker, artistic director of Fontana Arte and designer, was one of the most refined interpreters of the zeitgeist of the first half of the 20th century. From his early days in the Milan workshop, his sharp aesthetic sense made him known to the bourgeois audience of the Monza Biennale and subsequently launched him into the European and international world of the applied arts. His experimental technical aptitude, his unique passion for collecting, his receptiveness to shifts in taste, and his ability to anticipate its direction helped steer his intense design activity toward particularly important collaborations, including his appointment as artistic director of Fontana Arte, rooted in a deep friendship and mutual professional respect with Gio Ponti."

"Fontana Arte represents a unique phenomenon in the panorama of 20th-century applied art, not only in Italy but worldwide. In a span of a little over thirty years it grew into the most extraordinary company specializing in the use of crystal, applied to lighting and furniture, characterized by conceptual modernity and flawless execution. It was three architects who followed one another as artistic directors behind this extraordinary success story. Gio Ponti, who first recognized the enormous design potential of crystal, applied to new lighting systems and furniture, and above all who discovered the creative genius of Pietro Chiesa and had him by his side in leading Fontana Arte. Pietro Chiesa, the true architect of the company’s international success, was a man of extraordinary artistic culture, able to range from the most avant-garde modernism to the purest and most refined decoration, the creator of an extraordinary corps of craftsmen who raised Fontana Arte to a higher level and who were capable of producing extremely modern products, with execution criteria worthy of the highest Renaissance tradition. Max Ingrand, who entered Fontana Arte at a time of particular crisis, after Chiesa’s disappearance and the war damage, and who managed to revive the company completely, modernize production, and lead it into the design world as we understand it today — and this without betraying the legacy of those who had preceded him."

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