But can we call it just wall paneling? Indeed, it is a paneling because the beautiful whitened oak veneer incredibly continues for all it’s length. But inside you find: an entire closet, the main entrance of the loft, the emergency exit to the building’s stairs, a small laundry, some kitchen cupboards with ovens and appliances…
DetailsThe media cabinet is a huge piece of our production and hosts all the media devices of the loft and a hidden opening to the freight elevator( Please see our 3D drawing compared to the picture above). You can find it in front of the entrance door of the loft and it is definitely the…
DetailsOne year ago we choose to add a motto to our company name “designed+made+to measure” because we wanted to underline the end-to-end process, from the very first interior design idea to making and installing the furniture on site. Those three words seemed to describe our work properly. However, recently we realized that our job is…
DetailsExactly: in 29 days the bespoke interiors are ready to be shipped to New York! Of course Paolo and I supervise all the making process of what we have just designed. There is only a glass door between our office and the workshop. We often go in and out to check everything is done perfectly…
DetailsWE ARE WORKING FOR YOU! After two months dedicated to the design, the survey and the executive project finally we are cutting the first piece of solid wood! Yesterday, Silvio ( one of ermesponti master-carpenter) has begun to select and cut the old Italian walnut trees that will cover the main entrance wall of the…
DetailsAt 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…
DetailsAlthough 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…
DetailsFor 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…
DetailsCirca 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…
DetailsAs 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…
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