Contemporary design critics have totally excluded the iconographical and symbolic aspects from the manufacture of contemporary objects. The gradual structural simplification, the stylistic standardization, the excessive subjection to the functional aspects have, in fact, brought about an impoverishment of the creative process and a corresponding cancellation of cultural diversity. For a country like Italy that has established a well defined cultural identity based on the wealth of its iconographic and symbolic heritage represents a cultural impoverishment. Gio Ponti was probably the first modern designer who truly understood how to use in his own creative vocabulary allo f the suggestions, the poetry, and the symbolism of a rich cultural heritage by re-interpreting them on each occasion in order to create a stylistic continuity that promises to maintain this identity. “Letters to Ponti” is an invitation to retrace Ponti’s steps and follow the path that the great Milanese architect forged and which we can see from the graphic projects to the interior designs, and from the objects to the architecture.