Pair of armchairs mod. 803, designed by Gio Ponti in 1955 and produced by the Cassina Technical Office. A design in which lightness of line and balanced proportions translate Ponti's lesson into form. Widely documented in the literature on the Milanese master.
A model documented in the leading monographs on Gio Ponti
Model 803 is published in «Domus» no. 301 (1954) and no. 325 (1956), as well as in L. L. Ponti, Gio Ponti. The complete work 1923-1978 (London, 1990), U. La Pietra, L'arte si innamora dell'industria (New York, 2009) and F. Mautone, Gio Ponti. La Committenza Fernandes (Electa, Naples, 2010).