Leggera is a simple chair with a polite clear cultured shape strong in its past as a design icon.
Superleggera gio ponti chair.
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.
The challenge they faced of making an extra light chair was overcome with the superleggera s legs.
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Superleggera demonstrates the constructive prowess of the medamade craftsmen.
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This chair was inspired by 19th century italian ladderback chairs with woven straw seats.
Superleggera chair 1965 gio ponti 1891 1979 italy manufactured 1965 by cassina milan ash with original varnish seat.
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 is a chair designed by italian designer gio ponti in 1955 and produced by the italian company cassina since 1957.
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.
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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.
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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.