Art Deco was already waning in the early Thirties.
This was the time when applied decorative arts made way for industrial design.
The language of objects abandons decoration to become synthetic, intuitive, immediate.
The extraordinary series of red earthenware vases concluding the exhibition ‘Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità’ at Palazzo Reale bears witness to this.
As the curator Valerio Terraroli explains, the vases are the work of Gio Ponti, Guido Andlovitz and Giovanni Gariboldi, the stars of ceramic production in the years to come. Domitilla Dardi, historian and design critic, reveals how Gariboldi was one of the first winners of the Compasso d’Oro in 1954, with the Colonna stackable table service for Richard-Ginori.
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