At the same time, in Ermesponti, our technician Mattia prepares all the production drawings and easily the making process starts according with them. Each master carpenter is in charge of a specific item: Silvio of the media cabinet, Giuseppe of the hall- kitchen boiserie, Roberto of the main tv corner cabinet, Marco of the Sintagma’s…
Although we have plenty information about the loft, we can’t go on with the actual drawings of bespoke interiors until we have made our special and specific survey. Paolo goes for a one-day-trip in NY. He meets Chris and Bill and makes an accurate survey of the loft. It’s not only a question of precise…
For Ermes Ponti, Gio Ponti was a master, almost a grandfather. Not only a rare coincidence of names and neither a simply business relation between them; a friendship that still exists between the two families- the Pontis from Milan and the Pontis from Mantua. Gio Ponti was “four-times-twenty” and Ermes was not 25 yet; Gio…
Circa anno fa usciva un articolo di Dario Di Vico sulla rubrica buone notizie del Corriere della Sera sul concetto di “falegname evoluto” che l’architetto -falegname Paolo Ponti sperimentava nel processo di rinnovamento dell’azienda paterna; la ermesponti. Qualche mese dopo mentre leggevamo con interesse l’ormai famoso saggio di Stefano Micelli “Futuro Artigiano”, in occasione della…
As a good tailor, we always start from a deepened dialogue with the client and a meticulous survey of the location. We start to plan only after receiving from Chis, the loft’s owner, the basic requirements for it. We make the 3D drawings to let him visualize our first proposal and we develop it until…
Now we have the first Design-Apart showroom! The location it’s amazing; a huge second floor loft on the west side of the 25th Street, just a few steps from Madison Square Garden. Diego gives to Paolo and me the task to do the project. Actually, we are the only ones in this newborn team to…
Sometimes design an architectural facade for a fashion brand means something more and it implies some background questions: What’s the brand identity? What’s the meaning of the facade of its new flagship in the most important fashion street of Shanghai? We knew that one of the key brand value of Corneliani was the excellence of…
After receiving the layouts of each location, I suggest Diego to send each client an easy questionnaire to fill in, so to get almost the basic requirements from each candidate (for us it’s impossible to start planning a bespoke interior without knowing nothing of the client!). As soon as we receive the answers, we begin…
Design-Apart needs to find the right location for the first “living” showroom in New York. Diego and his family are supposed to move in and live there for a year. They will share their new home with American guests. Visitors will be regularly invited to enjoy the experience of top quality Italian craftsmanship and family…
“He was brilliant. He had his own style. He had his own approach,” Gates said. “Mine is, I guess…a little geekier than his was”. While Bill Gates admits to being less cool than Steve Jobs, Jobs made a more profound distinction. He recognized in Bill a “businessman” who “has excelled on the…
