rare Gio Ponti toilette, vanity table dressing table
one drawer with an adjustable brass mirror by Fontana Arte
produced by Giordano Chiesa for Dassi circa 1950
walnut, olive wood veneer, brass and mirror glass

feet painted dark ;very good original conditions
Measures: H 128cm (79,5cm without the mirror support) 100 x 55 cm top: 55 x 100 cm; mirror: 35 cm dia

this vanity is comes from a private furniture (1950-1950) of whose furnishings we know 2 other vanities and a pair of consoles sold in different Auction house in the past; this model was a prototype for a famous and very well known toilette used by Gio Ponti for the private furniture of the Hotel Royal in Naples in 1955 and then in 1964 for the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Rome and in Sorrento.
the refined details of the fake drawers on the sides of the desk and the adjustable and removable mirror make this prototype a very valuable piece
In 28/05/2019 a similar vanity was sold at Artcurial Auction in Paris at €29.900

Literature: Gio Ponti: L’Arte Si Innamora Dell’Industria, La Pietra, ppg. 365, 367;
Domus, no. 317, April 1956, no. 318, May 1956, and no. 325, December 1956, for a Dassi advertisement
Fabrizio Mautone “Gio Ponti LA COMMITTENZA FERNANDES” Electa Napoli 2009 pag.14,39,48,49.