May 17 – The Italian Cultural Institute of New York hosts, until May 31, the exhibition “Living Like Ponti. Experiments of domestic life and architecture for living and work,” dedicated to Gio Ponti. After Milan, Rome, Venice, London and Paris, New York will be playing host to the furniture designed by the great architect and designer between 1935 (the first chair for Palazzo Montecatini) and the 50s (bookcases, dressers, coffee tables, picture frames and a mat for the Ponti House in Via Dezza in Milan, 1956-57). The show, during the American stop, is enriched by a section dedicated to projects carried out in the United States: The Alitalia offices in New York in 1958, the Auditorium Time Life Building in New York (1959), the Denver Art Museum (1971), the exhibition of Italian furniture in the U.S. between 1950 and ’53 (MUSA), M. Singer & sons furniture from the 50s, and furniture and walls decoration by Altamira (1953). The exhibition is part of the series of events organized for the Year of Italian Culture in the United States.
