TASCHEN Verlag presents Gio Ponti: A coffee table book that comes with its own coffee table
...And an interior to which Gio Ponti, true to his Gesamtkünsler tendencies, contributed much of the fixtures, fittings and furnishings, the latter including a coffee table realised by Giordano Chiesa, a carpenter with whom Ponti had cooperated on innumerable projects since the 1930s, and whom, as Stefano Casciani opines, was "the most sensitive interpreter of Ponti’s material dreams, eagerly following the maestro in his most difficult flights of fancy and producing objects that were working prototypes"... Such as the Villa Planchart coffee table...