Villa Planchart by Gio Ponti

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti has designed a private home design of “Villa Planchart” which was built in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1956. Gio Ponti designed not only the house but selected all the furnishings and decorative objects. Many of which were also designed by him as well as carefully planning and executing the relationship between architecture and landscape. The modernist principle of integration of the arts with the architecture was naturally carried out in this building.

Gio Ponti’s work is characterized by grace and clarity. Ponti believed that “architecture is made to be looked at.” It is public landscape. “Facades are the wall of the street, and a city is made of streets; the facades are the visible part of the city, they are all of the city that appears.”