Design Edit Milan
Design Edit Milan
Giò Ponti
Six Sedia Leggera chairs, model n. 646
Lot Closed
June 27, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Six Sedia Leggera chairs, model n. 646
designed in 1951
ash wood and leatherette
Cassina edition, Meda, Italy
Each: 83,5 x 49 x 42,5 cm; 32 7/8 x 19 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.
Tre Mobili presentati da Giordano Chiesa e Cassina alla Triennale, Domus n. 265, Milan, December 1951, p. 15
Giampiero Bosoni, Made in Cassina, Milan, 2008, p. 149
Ugo La Pietra, Gio Ponti L’Arte Si Innamora dell’Industria, Milan, 2009, pp. 365, 366
Laura Falconi, Gio Ponti Interior Objects Drawings 1920-1976, Milan, 2010, p. 242
The six Sedia Leggera chairs come from the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento, Italy and present the original leatherette seat upholstery. Gio Ponti designed and furnished the hotel in 1960.
The lot is sold together with a certificate of expertise from the Gio Ponti Archives