FONTANA ARTE (éd.)

Founded in 1932 by architects Gio Ponti and Luigi Fontana, the Fontana Arte publishing house specializes in artistic glasswork. Renowned for the quality of its creations, it produces numerous objects – furniture, mirrors, lighting – using this material whose lightness and transparency Ponti was able to exploit on several of his own projects. Wishing to perpetuate a tradition of excellence, the Fontana Arte firm has secured, throughout the 20th century, the services of the greatest creators: Pietro Chiesa, Gae Aulenti, Pierluigi Cerri, Piero Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Vittorio Gregotti, Ettore Sottsass, Umberto Riva, Alvaro Siza and especially Max Ingrand who was its director in 1954.