Superleggera Gio Ponti Chair

The challenge they faced of making an extra light chair was overcome with the superleggera s legs.

Superleggera gio ponti chair.

He achieved his nearly decade long dream in 1957 with the superleggera chair a chair weighing just 3 10 pounds the superleggera beyond light has a solid ash wood frame joined with dowel joints and four legs that taper downwards with a maximum. Gio ponti set out to design and manufacture a chair that was both light and lived up to the standards of the best italian manufacturers. An architect furniture and industrial designer and editor gio ponti was arguably the most influential figure in 20th century italian modernism ponti designed thousands of furnishings and products from cabinets lamps and chairs to ceramics and coffeemakers and his buildings including the brawny pirelli tower 1956 in his native milan and the castle like denver art museum 1971. Leggera is a simple chair with a polite clear cultured shape strong in its past as a design icon.

It is one of the most famous products of the designer and one of the most important industrial design products of the twentieth century. There s not much onstage in the new minimalist production of harold pinter s betrayal currently on broadway besides. Otto gerdau italy ladder back chair rush wood wooden gio ponti superleggera styl. The leggera chair marked the beginning of a process in 1952 that encompasses in one unicum the entire design and executive path of collaboration between gio ponti cesare cassina and its artisans.

Gio ponti s superleggera chair on stage. Cane 2 2 twill weave rattan with original varnish museum no. Vintage pair italian mid century modern gio ponti style side metal dining chairs. Riprodotta ininterrottamente dal 1957 la superleggera rappresenta una sintesi esclusiva tra la ricerca di gio ponti e la sperimentazione avanzata di cassina divenendo icona indiscussa di modernità e raffinatezza artigianale.

Superleggera is a chair designed by italian designer gio ponti in 1955 and produced by the italian company cassina since 1957. Favorite add to. 4 5 out of 5 stars 43 43 reviews 458 00. Superleggera demonstrates the constructive prowess of the medamade craftsmen.

Of the architect gio ponti and cassina s manufacturing excellence an undisputed icon that is both of the moment and pays tribute to traditional artisanal skills. Superleggera chair 1965 gio ponti 1891 1979 italy manufactured 1965 by cassina milan ash with original varnish seat. Two very light red chairs with indiana cane seating in the style of gio ponti s superleggera chair 1960s or 1970s vintagonist. This chair was inspired by 19th century italian ladderback chairs with woven straw seats.