Cat2015 AMINI GioPonti
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GIO PONTI carpet collection

GIO PONTI carpet collection

Amini is an exciting new business in the carpet making industry that was born from the vision of the Amini Brothers Company, the long-standing company set up in 1962 by Sultan Amini, and renowned international market leader. At the heart of the project is the desire to offer a highly elaborate selection of carpets, in tune with a contemporary dimension of interior design. This collection boasts a strong stylistic identity, even though it is declined in a complex and heterogenous aesthetic assortment: from the most essential proposals, based on the expressive qualities of the materials used,...

Biography Designer, architect, magazine editor, academic, painter, writer and also poet. It’s impossible to condense Ponti’s accomplishment in a single word. Out of all his work of design he became known as the Father of Italy’s post-war design renaissance. His main idea was to propagate for design excellence, and he encouraged everyone to use good design in order to be able to enjoy the vivid, sensual and good life. His design was characterized by harmony between form, color and function, which is in fact the main idea of the modernist movement. His extraordinary prolific work is...

Il tappeto volante di Gio Ponti, Salvatore Licitra, Gio Ponti Archives Milano 08.01.2015 Si sa che i tappeti volanti percorrono agevolmente il tempo e lo spazio, e noi, figli e nipoti di Gio Ponti abbiamo voluto, con questo fiabesco mezzo, raccontare e riportare all’oggi tracce e memorie del caleidoscopio universo bidimensionale di Gio Ponti. Il tappeto ci è parso davvero adatto a raccontare di Gio Ponti, di un sentire che ha animato tutto il suo lavoro e che faceva perno sull’abitare, sulla casa e sullo sguardo dell’uomo, abitante, passante, ospite o bambino che fosse. Certamente non tutto...

Gio Ponti’S MAGIC carpet, Salvatore Licitra, Gio Ponti Archives Milan 08.01.2015 It is a known fact that flying carpets can easily travel through space and time, and we, as Gio Ponti’s children and grandchildren, would like to use this fabulous means of transport to recount and relive today the traces and memories of Gio Ponti’s two dimensional kaleidoscopic world. We felt the magic carpet was a really suitable mental representation to tell the story of Gio Ponti, and of his aesthetic feeling that permeated all his work and that focused on home living, from the outer dwelling to the human...

Quality 56.000 knots/sqm Composition 100% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 56.000 knots/sqm Composition 100% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

(hand spanned and hand carved) hand knotted the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes and covered with cloth.

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

Quality 120.000 knots/sqm Composition 20–30% Pure Silk 70_80% Tibetan Wool (hand spanned and hand carved) Technique hand knotted Origin Nepal Finishing the carpets are hand washed, clipped and curved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth. Size 250 x 300 cm and bespoke sizes

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Description Design box with 100 color pooms and quality samples.

Amini would like to cordially thank all contributors for the precious support and participation in this unique project. Special Thanks to the Gio Ponti Archives in the person of Mr. Paolo Rosselli, Mrs. Letizia Frailich Ponti, Mr. Giulio Ponti, Mr. Matteo Licitra and Mr. Salvatore Licitra, for their trust and engagement, to the designer Elena Maria Casiello to help us revive the style and design of Gio Ponti and many thanks to our Tibetan Team in Nepal to follow us with enthusiasm and good spirit and gifting us with all their material knowledge and weaving culture.

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