TESTED & WORKS GREAT! This authentic Industrial Swiveling Desk, Office, Work Chair remains in very good condition! No rips, tears, stains, or odors from safe indoor use only! Only minimal signs of wear (paint specks) to protective Gray Vinyl / Leatherette upholstery and light rusting on Steel Tube Frame (beneath seat) consistent with age (1936)! , No chips, cracks, or broken/ missing parts from light / gentle use! No annoying squeaking! Original Company label / tag remains intact (on back)! Made entirely of Aluminum, Steel, Vinyl / Leatherette, & Rubber! Swivel Tanker was produced by GoodForm for General Fireproofing Co. after being designed by Gio Ponti, and edited for the U.S. market! This Heavy-Duty Work Office Tanker was originally designed for the Montecatini Building in Milano! This specific model stands as symbol of "Modernity"! Since it's early unveiling, the Swivel Tanker has been updated / altered in design through the 1950's! After gaining worldwide praise, Gio Ponti & GoodForm continued with similar fashions through 1970's! The Swivel Tanker is made of Steel, Aluminum (Silver/ Gray), Imitation Leather (or Leatherette) / Vinyl (Black) ... & Remains in Perfect Working Order! Perforated Aluminum Backrest Tilts, is Adjustable, and Feels Fabulous! It's 2 IN thick seat cushion is made from a high-density, Polyurethane Seating Foam (CushionRite™ Premium Foam)! The GoodForm for General Fireproofing Co. Tanker Chair has a Steel Tube Frame, Aluminum 4-Prong Propeller Base, Vinyl Seat, & Vinyl Back. Signed, "Youngstown, Ohio" by GoodForm, for General FireProofing Company! See photos for more details. From a Pet / Smoke-FREE environment! Proudly made in the U.S.A.! Shipped FAST & FREE (to Lower 48) U.S. States!
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An architect, industrial furniture designer, & editor, Giò Ponti was arguably the most influential figure in 20th-Century Italian Modernism! Ponti designed thousands of furnishings & products,..from cabinets, lamps & chairs, to ceramics & coffeemakers! His buildings, including the brawny "Pirelli Tower" (1956) in his native Milan, & the castle-like "Denver Art Museum" (1971), were erected in 14 countries!
Through "Domus", the magazine he founded in 1928, Ponti brought attention to virtually every significant movement & creator in the spheres of Modern Art & Design. The questing intelligence Ponti brought to Domus is reflected in his work: as protean as he was prolific, Ponti’s style can’t be pegged to a specific genre!
In the 1920s, as artistic director for the Tuscan porcelain maker Richard Ginori, he fused old & new; his ceramic forms were modern, but decorated with motifs from Roman antiquity. In pre-war Italy, modernist design was encouraged, & after the conflict, Ponti, (along with designers such as Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, Marco Zanuso) found a receptive audience for their novel, idiosyncratic work!
Ponti’s typical furniture forms from the period, such as the wedge-shaped "Distex Chair", are simple, gently angular, & colorful; equally elegant & functional!
In the 1960s & ’70s, Ponti’s style evolved again as he explored biomorphic shapes, & embraced the expressive, experimental designs of Ettore Sottsass Jr., Joe Colombo & others.
His signature furniture piece,...the one by which he is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Germany’s Vitra Design Museum etc... is the sleek "Superleggera Chair", produced by Cassina starting in 1957. The name translates as “superlightweight" & advertisements featured a model lifting it with one finger!
Ponti had a playful side, best shown in a collaboration he began in the late 1940s with the graphic artist Piero Fornasetti. Ponti furnishings were decorated with bright finishes & Fornasetti's whimsical lithographic transfer prints of things such as butterflies, birds or flowers. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts possesses a 1950 secretary from their "Architetturra" Series, which feature case pieces covered in images of building interiors & facades!
The grandest project Ponti & Fornasetti undertook, however, lies on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in the interiors of the luxury liner "Andrea Doria", which sank in 1956!
Widely praised retrospectives at the Queens Museum of Art in 2001 & at the Design Museum London in 2002 sparked a renewed interest in Ponti among modern design aficionados. (Marco Romanelli’s monograph written for the London show, offers a fine overview of Ponti’s work)!Today, a wide array of Ponti’s designs are snapped up by savvy collectors who want to give their homes a touch of Italian panache & effortless chic!