Ultraleggera Chair

Playing with lightness ULTRALEGGERA is a manifesto chair. Its final form and properties, implied by monomateriality, are like a lens concentrating complex issues from the fields of ecology, technology and economics. When Cassina began producing the Superleggera chair designed by Gio Ponti in 1957, experiments with strength and lightness of structure belonged primarily to the world of architecture. In their projects, such creators as Buckminster Fuller and Jean Prouvé raised the idea of the primacy of construction quality over form. In 2019, Oskar Zięta decided to face the challenge of lightness again in the design of a functional product. The result of his research is Ultraleggera, a chair that amazes with its featherweight and attracts with its charm The world’s lightest chair ULTRALEGGERA is a manifesto chair. Its final form and properties, implied by monomateriality, are like a lens concentrating complex issues from the fields of ecology, technology and economics. The chair designed by Oskar Zięta is built on an ultra-lightweight, durable frame made with the innovative FiDU technology, with a laser-cut seat plus backrest. All made of one material—the highest-quality aluminium. The whole construction is characterized by exceptional lightness—it weighs a little over 1660 g.