Pietro Chiesa
Pietro Chiesa
Pietro Chiesa was born in Milan. Descendant of an eminent Ticinese family of artists, he opened his own glass making shop in 1921 after he worked as an apprentice at the Giannotti glassmaker.
In 1923 and 1924 he attended the "Biennale" exhibit in Monza and Venice; in 1925 he attended the "Exposition des Arts Décoratifs" exhibit in Paris and afterwards the one in Köln and Barcelona. Pietro Chiesa's artworks, which include the glass windows of the "Borsa Valori di Trieste" (the stock exchange of Trieste), the windows of the motor vessel "Victoria", and the windows of the transatlantic liner "Conte di Savoia" express an almost modernity and high technical value, for which he is famous. Among his buyers are the Italian-British Bank in Milan, the Modern Art Gallery and D’Annunzio for "the Vittoriale". In 1932 Pietro Chiesa is requested by Gio Ponti to partake in the artistic direction of FontanaArte; here, he was able to express all his creativity by designing over a thousand pieces of work of different types (furniture, tables, lamps, glass windows, objects, etc).
Some of these pieces of work were entered in the history of Design and few of them are still producted by FontanaArte; examples are the round table Fontana, the floor lamp Luminator, the vase Cartoccio.
He died in 1948.
In 1923 and 1924 he attended the "Biennale" exhibit in Monza and Venice; in 1925 he attended the "Exposition des Arts Décoratifs" exhibit in Paris and afterwards the one in Köln and Barcelona. Pietro Chiesa's artworks, which include the glass windows of the "Borsa Valori di Trieste" (the stock exchange of Trieste), the windows of the motor vessel "Victoria", and the windows of the transatlantic liner "Conte di Savoia" express an almost modernity and high technical value, for which he is famous. Among his buyers are the Italian-British Bank in Milan, the Modern Art Gallery and D’Annunzio for "the Vittoriale". In 1932 Pietro Chiesa is requested by Gio Ponti to partake in the artistic direction of FontanaArte; here, he was able to express all his creativity by designing over a thousand pieces of work of different types (furniture, tables, lamps, glass windows, objects, etc).
Some of these pieces of work were entered in the history of Design and few of them are still producted by FontanaArte; examples are the round table Fontana, the floor lamp Luminator, the vase Cartoccio.
He died in 1948.