Work of Gio Ponti Featured in Exhibit

The special exhibition "Gio Ponti and the Villa Planchart" will be on display in the Busch-Reisinger Museum through March 8. The exhibition highlights the work of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979), best known in this country for his designs for the Pirelli Tower in Milan (1956), the Denver Art Museum (1970), and the Superleggera chair, designed in 1955 and still in widespread production today. The exhibition focuses on one of Ponti's masterworks, the Villa Planchart, a private home built in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1956. The first in a series of collaborative efforts between the University Art Museums and the Graduate School of Design, this exhibition is organized by Monica Ponce de Leon, assistant professor of architecture, Jorge Silvetti, professor and chair of the Department of Architecture, and Brooke Hodge, director of exhibitions, Graduate School of Design.

A complementary exhibition on Gio Ponti and the Villa Planchart will be on display at Gund Hall Gallery, Graduate School of Design, from Feb. 16 through March 19. The Graduate School of Design is located at 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge. For further information, call 495-4784.