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Lot Essay
cf. G. Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 90 for a similar example illustrated.
From 1947 on, over the course of almost 10 years, Gio Ponti designed more than a dozen chairs, rearranging the constituent elements and paring them down until he reached his ultimate achievement with the now legendary superleggera chair of 1957. This was immediately preceded by complex variants exhibiting evolving tensions between lightness and solidity. Among these, several examples of the leggera series have become very rare such as model 835 from 1954. Here, Ponti configured the chair's structural geometry in sync with unconventional, angular window designs in his buildings.
This lot is sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archive.
We would like to thank Brian Kish for his assistance with the cataloguing of and note for this lot.
From 1947 on, over the course of almost 10 years, Gio Ponti designed more than a dozen chairs, rearranging the constituent elements and paring them down until he reached his ultimate achievement with the now legendary superleggera chair of 1957. This was immediately preceded by complex variants exhibiting evolving tensions between lightness and solidity. Among these, several examples of the leggera series have become very rare such as model 835 from 1954. Here, Ponti configured the chair's structural geometry in sync with unconventional, angular window designs in his buildings.
This lot is sold with a certificate of authenticity from the Gio Ponti Archive.
We would like to thank Brian Kish for his assistance with the cataloguing of and note for this lot.