tao guitars gio

History

Gio Ponti was a famous Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, who started his career in the late 20’s, instigated modernisin architecture early in the 30’s, created the renowned design magazine Domus that became the ultimate reference in that field. He became an icon of modernism in architecture with numerous buildings through his six decades career with the likes of the Pirelli tower in Milan, the villa Planchart in Caracas, Parco dei principi hotel in Sorrento or the villa Nemazee in Teheran being his masterpiece and the starting point of our project.

We took our inspiration from various examples of his work, interiors, furniture, lighting in order to dress our guitar in his style as an humble tribute to this master of Italian design genius.

Specifications
Body: mahogany 2 pcs
Neck: selected rosewood

Fingerboard: selected rosewood
Scale: 25.5" 

Radius: 12" 

Nut: brass

Frets: Tao Progressive Fretting (smaller after the 12th fret) with EVO gold Jescar fretwire
Tuners:  Gotoh SDS510 HAP gold
Bridge: Tri-Flex brass bridge and intonated brass saddles
Pickups: Benedetti "Tsurugi" set with custom covers
Electronic: Master volume (upper bar) , Master tone (bottom bar), Balance (square)
Sidemarkers: brass with inlaid Lapis Lazuli 
Pickguard: custom layered white/blue plexi 
Colour: white
Finish: pore filled matt skin finish 
Case: SKB I-series

And here are some "in the making" pics and vid: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGUgwVvHIgP/

This is a consignment piece and will ship from the Tao Guitars studio in Belgium.

SOLD - $15,250