Cassina: Legera Outdoor

Legera Outdoor – an icon for the outdoors, too…

The wood chair par excellence, one of the flagship pieces in the partnership between Gio Ponti, Cesare Cassina and the company’s joinery experts, adds a new outdoor version manufactured in steel, using an innovative process.

An icon that has evolved over time while staying true to the original design and principles of lightness and functionality that shaped its archetypal ethos, the Leggera moves outside in a version crafted with a cutting-edge technique, used here for the first time.‎

The wood version challenged the experience and skills of the Cassina joinery to pare the chair’s structure down to its essence.‎ Similarly, the same lightness and purity of Leggera is expressed in a material suited to the outdoors: stainless steel.‎ To accomplish this, Cassina borrowed from a Formula One automotive production process.‎ Crucial in-depth research and development analyses led to the use of hydroforming, a construction technique found in the single-seater, to accurately replicate the original model of the chair, preserving its distinctive aesthetics and emblematic lightness.‎

Unlike the traditional casting techniques, this intricate method expands the thin curved tubular steel from its interior outward to give the structure its shape.‎ In a series of processes, each tube is inserted into a closed mould where, thanks to the pressure exerted by a liquid on the inside, it is pressed and moulded, filling out its shape.‎ The individual components are then carefully welded together.‎

Leggera Outdoor comes in three colours:

Find the collection in ivory, mud and green.‎ The seat comes in both the colour mud and in woven cord and, to ensure greater comfort, optional upholstered seat and backrest cushions are available.‎

Thanks to the work carried out by Cassina LAB, the Leggera Outdoor chair can be completely disassembled and all of its components recycled at the end of the product’s life cycle, in a more eco-friendly, respectful approach to the environment.‎

The lightness, simplicity and timeless beauty of the Leggera are wrapped in a new material. Thanks to some extraordinary in-depth research and development, Cassina borrowed a technique used in constructing the Formula One single-seater and applied it to the Leggera.

Hydroforming technology, transferred from the automotive industry to design, makes it possible to retain the distinctive light weight of the design chair and the exact shape of the original model.

STRUCTURE

In steel, in ivory, mud or green colour.

SEAT

In recycled plastic or with frame in Okoume plywood and woven polypropylene outdoor cord.

CUSHIONS

Optional, for seat and backrest, in thermoformed polyurethane encased in water-repellent fabric.

For more visit Cassina. Legera Outdoor is also available from True Design. True Design is committed to providing only the best and highest standard of authentic design products in the world to South Africa.