Superleggera Gio Ponti Chair

Cane 2 2 twill weave rattan with original varnish museum no.

Superleggera gio ponti chair.

4 5 out of 5 stars 43 43 reviews 458 00. 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. 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. The challenge they faced of making an extra light chair was overcome with the superleggera s legs.

Vintage pair italian mid century modern gio ponti style side metal dining chairs. Otto gerdau italy ladder back chair rush wood wooden gio ponti superleggera styl. Superleggera is a chair designed by italian designer gio ponti in 1955 and produced by the italian company cassina since 1957. 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.

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. 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. It is one of the most famous products of the designer and one of the most important industrial design products of the twentieth century.

Gio ponti s superleggera chair on stage. There s not much onstage in the new minimalist production of harold pinter s betrayal currently on broadway besides. Vintage pair of mid century mod gio ponti style ladder back chairs. 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.

This chair was inspired by 19th century italian ladderback chairs with woven straw seats. Leggera is a simple chair with a polite clear cultured shape strong in its past as a design icon. Two very light red chairs with indiana cane seating in the style of gio ponti s superleggera chair 1960s or 1970s vintagonist. Superleggera chair 1965 gio ponti 1891 1979 italy manufactured 1965 by cassina milan ash with original varnish seat.