Superleggera Side Chair
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Cassina S.p.A, Italian, founded 1927
- Designer
- Gio Ponti, Italian, 1891 - 1979
- Description
- Light-toned wooden side chair, with turned legs and uprights champfered at the angles, the chairback with slight back angle connected by horizontal slats, the seat with woven close-caning in a twill weave, the chair legs connected with slat-form stretchers, one on front and back, two on each side.
- Credit Line
- Gift of George R. Kravis II
- 1957
- Accession Number
- 2013-54-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- chair
- Type
- chair
- Medium
- ash, cane
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 83.2 x 40 x 43.2 cm (32 3/4 in. x 15 3/4 in. x 17 in.)
- manufactured in
- Meda, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2013-54-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48cd1000a-9e4e-4730-93ea-1508570314f5
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