Ponti is a designer fully inserted in the twentieth century, a century made of strong certainties, unshakable ideologies and faith in technical-industrial progress. He was always looking for definitive projects, for archetypes that respected history and could be part of it. Today designers tell of a different, “liquid”, uncertain contemporaneity: they design provisional, elastic, conceptual products.
This is why it is easier to find the Pontian values in the middle generation than in the contemporary one: we therefore find it in the bourgeois rigor of Alberto Meda and Antonio Citterio, in the ability to work on multiple scales (design, craftsmanship, architecture) of Michele De Lucchi, in quality of the design by Patricia Urquiola and Rodolfo Dordoni.