EDINA ALTARA; ITALY

Ponti's interiors of the early 1950s were notable for the collaborative involvement of skilled artists, to include the enamel work of Paolo de Poli (lot 2), and the elaborate trompe l'oeil effects perfected by Piero Fornasetti (lots 13, 16). Edina Altara had worked with Ponti since the late 1930s, her distinctive reverse-decorated and scorched-glass panels being used to decorative effect on several furniture items exhibited at the Triennales, the interior for the Lucano apartment, Milan 1951, and the interior of the luxury ocean liner 'Conte Biancamano', 1950.

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