Superleggera Gio Ponti Chair

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Superleggera gio ponti chair.

Leggera is a simple chair with a polite clear cultured shape strong in its past as a design icon. 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. Gio ponti s superleggera chair on stage. Otto gerdau italy ladder back chair rush wood wooden gio ponti superleggera styl.

Two very light red chairs with indiana cane seating in the style of gio ponti s superleggera chair 1960s or 1970s vintagonist. 4 5 out of 5 stars 43 43 reviews 458 00. Superleggera is a chair designed by italian designer gio ponti in 1955 and produced by the italian company cassina since 1957. La sua sfida costruttiva è racchiusa nella sezione triangolare delle gambe di soli 18 millimetri e con un peso minimo di 1 700 grammi mentre la struttura in frassino.

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. Vintage pair of mid century mod gio ponti style ladder back chairs. Superleggera demonstrates the constructive prowess of the medamade craftsmen. The challenge they faced of making an extra light chair was overcome with the superleggera s legs.

It is one of the most famous products of the designer and one of the most important industrial design products of the twentieth century. This chair was inspired by 19th century italian ladderback chairs with woven straw seats. 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. There s not much onstage in the new minimalist production of harold pinter s betrayal currently on broadway besides.

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. Only 1 available and it s in 1 person s cart. 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. 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.