Environnement Tableware | Phillips, de Pury & Company

For the seminal exhibition, "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1972, one room consisted entirely of objects "selected for their implications of more flexible patterns of use and arrangement." Ponti's unsung and hard-to-find "Apta" series certainly fulfills this mandate, and the striking cabinet offered here can be used as a wardrobe, pantry or (most agreeably) liquor cabinet. Another rare model from this period is Colombo's "69" cabinet, which lives up to its nomenclature, as the castors can be removed and the piece flipped from a horizontal to vertical plane.

Manufactured by Ceramica Franco Pozzi, retailed by Pierre Cardin ceramic, comprising salt and pepper shakers, and various sizes of plates and bowls marked with Pozzi and Cardin marks and one paper label (13)
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) high

Literature:
Idees Italiennes, L'Oeil, January 1971, p. 53 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 70s Decorative Art, Cologne, 2000, p. 541