By the 1920s, the glass manufacturer Luigi Fontana & C., founded in Milan in 1881, had become one of the largest Italian producers of glass and windows for the building trades.<\/p>\n
When Fontana meets Gio Ponti, he explain he has been thinking about reorienting a part of his business toward the creation of furniture and \u201cobjets d\u2019art\u201d.<\/p>\n
In no time Gio Ponti is designing furniture, metal frames, and centerpieces in mirror and cut glass for Fontana. It is in fact Gio Ponti\u2019s idea to create a new, specializes, division of the company, and in 1932 Fontana Arte is born.<\/p>\n
With his friend furniture design and the master glass-maker Pietro Chiesa, he shares the artistic direction.<\/p>\n
Fontana Arte becomes knows for its lighting fixtures, the demand for which only continues to grow with the widespread electrification of homes across Italy and Europe.<\/p>\n
Rapidly the company\u2019s name is considered synonymous with Italian style.<\/p>\n
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