Cassina 699 superleggera chair by gio ponti for cassina.
Superleggera gio ponti chair.
Ponti s typical furniture forms from the period such as the wedge shaped distex chair are simple gently angular and colorful.
Equally elegant and functional.
The superleggera beyond light weighs just 1 7kg.
Shop the cassina superleggera chair an icon of italian post war design inspired by a 19th century chair and gio ponti s most recognisable work.
Its legs have a triangular section with a maximum diameter of a mere 18mm.
The architect and designer gio ponti was inspired by the structural system of the chiavari chair for his superleggera chair of 1955.
In the 1960s and 70s ponti s style evolved again as he explored biomorphic shapes and embraced the expressive experimental designs of ettore sottsass jr joe colomboand others.
Incredibly lightweight and elegant this innovative chair was designed by gio ponti in 1957 for cassina.
A highlight of cassina s catalogue since 1957 the superleggera represents the perfect outcome between the creative imagination 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.
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.
Ponti was inspired by a nineteenth century chair with a woven straw seat and ladder back called the chiavari chair.
In order to test the design he submitted it to one final challenge throwing it from the fourth storey of an apartment into the street.
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Ponti s typical furniture forms from the period such as the wedge shaped distex chair are simple gently angular and colorful.
Equally elegant and functional.
Leggera is a simple chair with a polite clear cultured shape strong in its past as a design icon.
Inspired by traditional vernacular chairs produced in the italian town of chiavari ponti used state of the art methods to create this chair.