Floor Tile for the Parco dei Principi Hotel, Rome

Floor Tile for the Parco dei Principi Hotel, Rome

1964
Designer
Gio Ponti, Italian, 1891-1979
Born: Milan, Italy
Work Locations: Milan, Italy
Manufacturer
Ceramica D’Agostino
Active Dates: 1964-
Country
Italy
Object
tile
Medium
Ceramic (earthenware)
Accession Number
2014.59.5
Credit Line
Gift of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown, III

Gio Ponti, Floor Tile for the Parco dei Principi Hotel, Rome, 1964. Ceramic (earthenware); 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 1/4 in. Manufactured by Ceramica D’Agostino, Salerno, Italy. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III, 2014.59.5.

Dimensions
length: 7.75 in, 19.6850 cm; width: 7.75 in, 19.6850 cm; depth: .25 in, 0.6350 cm
Department
Architecture and Design
Collection
Architecture and Design

Colorful, durable, and easy to maintain, tile was Gio Ponti’s material of choice for both flooring and wall cladding. Perhaps the Parco dei Principi Hotel’s most distinctive features were its thirty custom tile patterns in white, green, and black, which Ponti originally designed in white, light blue, and dark blue for the Parco dei Principi Hotel in Sorrento, Italy (1960). The tiles could be arranged to create approximately one hundred different floor patterns.

Known Provenance
Gifted 2014 by Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III to the Denver Art Museum
Exhibition History
  • “Gio Ponti: Designer of a Thousand Talents” — Denver Art Museum, 10/24/2021 – 12/31/2022