Italian Design tribute to Pierluigi Ghianda - Paris

march 17, 2016 - 6pm
Italian Design
tribute to
Pierluigi Ghianda
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March 12, 2016 from 10am to 7pm
March 13, 2016 from 2pm to 6pm
March 14, 2016 from 10am to 7pm
March 15, 2016 from 10am to 7pm
March 16, 2016 from 10am to 7pm
March 17, 2016 from 10am to 12pm
PIASA
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75008 Paris - France
PRESS & COMMUNICATION
Cécile Demtchenko Woringer
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Press Release
PIASA’s sale of Italian Design on Thursday 17 March features works
by such leading names as Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, BBPR, Ignazio
Gardella, Ico Parisi and Max Ingrand – alongs with a section devoted
to star furniture-designer Pierluigi Ghianda.
Italian Design
With its plethora of high-quality companies, craftsmen, editors and designers,
Northern Italy became the nerve-centre for Design during the second half of the 20th
century. The auction retraces the history of Italian Design from this period through
a selection of works by its most iconic figures.
Gio Ponti (1891-1979), the godfather of Italy’s post-war Design renaissance, is
represented by an unusual Modernist desk in natural and lacquered wood, complete
with magazine-rack (est. €55,000-75,000) – typical of the ingenious Ponti style in
both its sharp-edged geometry, spatial economy and ingenious wall-unit. The desk
was first made in plain wood before appearing in a coloured version three years later,
at the celebrated Milan Triennale of 1957.
Piero Fornasetti (1913-88), subject of a major retrospective at the Paris Musée des Arts
Décoratifs in 2015, is a key name on the Italian artistic scene. His zany baroque world
is represented here by two chairs that embody the whimsy and charm of Italian
culture (€1500-2300 / €2000-3000).
The architect Claudio Salocchi (born 1939), a leading apostle of an all-embracing
creative approach to interior design, is represented by a remarkable destructured
bookcase in lacquered wood and Brazilian rosewood (est. €15,000-20,000). Salocchi’s
work, with its fragmented forms that stretch out and extend in a centrifugal manner,
exudes true expressive mastery.
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Claudio Salocchi (né en 1934)
Centro
Bibliothèque
Palissandre
Edition Sormani
date de création : 1960
H 200 × L 75 × l 76 cm
15 000 / 20 000 €
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Gio Ponti
Bureau et étagère
Bois et mélaminé
Date de création : 1957
H 80,5 x L 150 x P 50 cm (bureau)
H 45 x L 150 x P 10 cm (étagère)
Modèle présenté à la onzième Triennale de Milan
55 000 / 75 000 €
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Gio Ponti (1891-1979)
Modèle 811
Fauteuil
Bois et tissu
Edition Cassina
Date de création : 1957
H 87 x L 109 x P 70 cm
15 000/ 20 000€
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Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)
Table
Chêne
Edition Ettore Canali
Date de création : vers 1954
H 78 x L 79 x P 79 cm
Provenance : Casa del Sole Apartments, Cervinia, Italie
50 000 / 70 000 €
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Pierluigi Ghianda: The Poet of Wood
Pierluigi Ghianda (born 1926) hails from a family of carpenters. He and his wife
took over the family firm in 1967, lending it new impetus by collaborating with the
most important designers of the period. From Ettore Sottsass to the Castiglioni
brothers, via Gio Ponti and Gae Aulenti, Pierluigi Ghianda and his workshop
have supported some of the most glorious names of Made In Italy Design.
Photo D.R.
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‘Anyone who has worked with Pierluigi knows that you only
have to speak with him to gain inspiration’
– Piero Castiglioni
His skill, love of wood and spiritual entente with other artists have made Pierluigi
Ghianda Italy’s most respected master-carpenter. One of his most distinguished
collaborators was Gianfranco Frattini. They started working together after a
trip to Japan, combining the uncompromising creativity of the designer with
the craftsmanship of the furniture-maker, to create masterpieces like their Kioto
dining-table (est. €6,000-8,000).
Another important collaborator with Ghianda was Ettore Sottsass. The PIASA
sale features the prototype of their hugely popular, brightly coloured Carlton
bookcase (est. €10,000-15,000).
Although a pre-eminent figure in the history of international design, Pierluigi
Ghianda has always kept a low profile. As Aldo Cibic, of the Memphis Group,
once said: ‘On entering a place like the the Ghianda Workshop, you become aware
of what excellence means.’
Gianfranco Frattini (1926-2004)
Kioto
Buffet en hêtre
Un des deux seuls exemplaires réalisés par Pierluigi Ghianda
Date de création : 1974
H 67 x 52,5 x L 163 cm
4 000 / 6 000 €
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Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)
Meuble de rangement en pin
Edition Pierluigi Ghianda, limitée à 10 exemplaires plus un
Date de création : vers 1980
H 151 x L 96 x P 56 cm
Modèle réalisé pour la galerie Calvi Volpi
10 000 / 15 000€
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Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007)
Carlton
Bibliothèque
Prototype de la bibliothèque Carlton réalisé par
Pierluigi Ghianda pour Ettore Sottsass
Bois stratifié
Date de création : 1980-1981
H 195,5 x L 190 x P 40 cm
10 000 / 15 000 €
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Gianfranco Frattini (1926-2004)
Kioto
Table de salle à manger en hêtre
Pièce unique réalisée par Pierluigi Ghianda
Date de création : 1974
H 71 x L 146 cm
6 000 / 8 000 €
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Sculptures de gauche à droite :
Pino Tovaglia (1923-1977)
Pierluigi Ghianda (1926-2015)
Sculpture en bois
H 22,5 x L 16 x P 10 cm
Sculpture en bois
H 32 cm
500 / 800 €
500 / 800 €
Sergio Bianco
et Giovanni Sacchi
Sculpture en bois et feuille dorée
Date de création : 2000
H 57 x Ø 34 cm
500 / 800 €
Pierluigi Ghianda (1926-2015)
Pierluigi Ghianda (1926-2015)
Sculpture en bois
H 39 x Ø 23 cm
Sculpture en bois
H 39 x L 17 x P 17 cm
500 / 800 €
500 / 800 €
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Design department
François Epin
Archibald Pearson-de Brantes
Johanna Colombatti
Alix de Saint-Hilaire
Éléonore Floret
www.piasa.fr
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