Saint Laurent Rive Droite has exposed an exceptional collaboration with the Gio Ponti Archives and the Fundación Anala y Armando Planchart for Milan Design 7 days.
The exhibition, curated by Anthony Vaccarello, will showcase an remarkable plate assortment at the Chiostri di San Simpliciano.
In Venezuela in 1953, Anala and Armando Planchart commissioned the renowned Italian architect Gio Ponti to create an avant-garde villa for them on the best hill overlooking Caracas.
Framing their present day aspirations, Gio Ponti developed a house “as gentle and graceful as a butterfly posed on a hill”, brimming with ingenious innovations, brilliant colours, and showcasing magnificent sights, collections of orchids, and will work of artwork. In finalising the inside decoration of the Villa Planchart, Ponti utilized exceptional Italian artisans with traditional skills, like the Florentine maker Ginori 1735, for which he had previously worked as artistic director.
He developed a established of porcelain tableware decorated with the symbols and motifs of the villa, illustrating his artistic expertise and eye for depth: the Sunlight, the Crescent Moon, the Polar Star and outstanding iterations of the letter “A” – a homage to Anala and Armando. Saint Laurent Rive Droite, in collaboration with Ginori 1735, has reissued 12 unique plates from the Villa Planchart Segnaposto selection made by Gio Ponti in 1957. These typically crafted ornamental porcelain plates are painted by hand in Ginori 1735’s Italian Manifattura.
The constrained-edition plates will be out there on ysl.com, at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Los Angeles, Saint Laurent Rive Droite in Paris, and, for a minimal time, by appointment at Saint Laurent’s Milan flagship on Through Montenapoleone during Milan Style and design Week.
Open from the 16th to the 21st of April, the Gio Ponti – Villa Planchart exhibition will be on view at the Chiostri Di San Simpliciano in Milan.
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