Pietro Chiesa, standing
lamp, c. 1940
Ponti and his design cohorts
pursued endless possibilities
with brilliant success. His
collaboration with Piero
Fornasetti produced a wood
cabinet with three doors faced
in curved cut glass, adorned
with allegorical motifs, using
verre eglomise (gilt glass
technique): in sheer visual
appeal it would rival work by
Boulle for the Sun King.
Vast social, economic and
political
changes
were
afoot following World War
I, causing Europeans and
Americans and much of the
rest of the world to gravitate
towards new ways, from
political to artistic: there was,
as denoted by the title of
Pietro Chiesa's stained glass
window, c. 1926, Il Volo nel
Sole (Flight into the sun), figure
6, depicting vintage planes
ascending through rays of
light, an exhilarating voyage
towards new discoveries in
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