The dining chair offers exceptional lightness with its ingenious cross-section leg design, weighing just 1.7kg. Its lacquered ash wood frame combines with India cane detailing, while the complex construction demonstrates traditional artisanal craftsmanship. The hand-finished surface adds elegance, and the lightweight structure ensures easy handling without compromising durability.
Gio Ponti's 'Superleggera' is one of those rare successful combinations of an architect's personal quest and manufacturing excellence. A Cassina catalogue stalwart since 1957, the 'Superleggera' chair is an homage to traditional artisanal skills and high quality materials, and its complex construction is a testament to the talent of the craftspeople at Cassina's Meda-based workshops. The result is a supremely elegant hand-finished chair with an inherent lightness thanks to an ingenious cross section of legs that allows the seat to weigh just 1.7kg — an impressive feat, especially taking into account the application of lacquered ash wood and India cane throughout.
