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GRAZIACASA | MESE/MESE2013 | 3 by Carolina Trabattoni photo Giovanni Gastel text Valentina Raggi Leather & Color as per Gio Ponti Almost 50 years ago the Milanese architect designed the Dezza armchair. Today this icon is reborn with three new finishes and covers in Pelle Frau® Leather, in the typical hues favored by Ponti. An updated per
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by Carolina Trabattoni photo Giovanni Gastel text Valentina Raggi
Leather & Coloras per Gio PontiAlmost 50 years ago the Milanese architect designed the Dezza armchair. Today this icon is reborn with three new finishes and covers in Pelle Frau® Leather, in the typical hues favored by Ponti. An updated
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DEZZA, AN UP-TO-DATE CLASSICThe Dezza armchair by Gio Ponti is a small work of domestic architecture, the result of the encounter with Franco Moschini, president of Poltrona Frau, in the home-studio Ponti designed on Via Dezza in Milan. More than a seat, it was conceived as “a construction system” to assemble, reprising certain typical design features, like the tapered triangular section of the legs. The year was 1965, and the idea was innovative. Though it went
out of production years later, Dezza has become part of the collective memory, a true icon. So Poltrona Frau has reissued the model today, in collaboration with Ponti’s heirs, updating the structure and the covering. The legs in white or black lacquered solid ash are joined by variations in solid Canaletto walnut and green or blue lacquered ash. The colors are based on the shades used in the Hotel Parco dei Principi in Sorrento and the Parco dei Principi in Rome, also designed by Ponti.
The armchair also changes its look thanks to the very high quality of Pelle Frau® Leather, the special leather available in 23 colors, for free combination with the structures. This aesthetic innovation is applied only to the models 24 and 48 (with a headrest built into the back). To illustrate this new project, we have decided to show Dezza in the rooms of the Rectorate of the Università degli Studi of Padua, at Palazzo Bo, designed and decorated with frescoes by the Milanese architect in the 1930s.
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Three Dezza 24 armchairs covered with Pelle Frau® Leather Zolfo with legs in ash, painted Ponti Green,
and two Dezza 48 models in Pelle Frau® Leather Corniola, with legs in ash, painted Ponti Blue, in the
Reading Room of the Rectorate of the Università degli Studi of Padua, designed by Gio Ponti.
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Dezza 24 in Pelle Frau® Leather Calcedonio with ash legs painted
in Ponti Blue, photographed in the Dining Room of the Rectorate.
Two Dezza 48 armchairs in Pelle Frau® Leather Rubino with ash legs painted Ponti Green, and Azul with legs in Canaletto walnut. The table is the Regolo model in Pelle Frau® Leather SC 141, in the Banana color. The furnishings echo the hues of the fresco by Gio Ponti at the foot of the entrance staircase of the Rectorate.
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color POMICE
color LAPISLAZZULI
color DIASPRO
color ZOLFO
color CORNIOLA
color AZUL
color RUBINO
color SILICE
color AMBRA
color CALCEDONIO
PELLE FRAU® LEATHERThe result of know-how and craftsmanship developed in 100 years of experience, for Poltrona Frau the working of leather is a true feather in the company’s cap. Pelle Frau® Leather is the material chosen to update the Dezza armchairs designed by Gio Ponti. After careful selection of full-grain skins (just 10 per 100), the Pelle Frau® Leather is tanned in multiple phases in oak casks, to absorb pigments in a natural way. This traditional, refined procedure creates a chiaroscuro effect known to tanners as “millepunte,” which adds depth and movement to the material. Pelle Frau® Leather comes in 23 shades. On these pages, we have highlighted certain details of the splendid fresco made in the 1930s by Ponti for the entrance staircase of the Rectorate of the Università degli Studi of Padua, triggering relationships and interactions with certain hues from the Pelle Frau® Leather range selected for Dezza. www.poltronafrau.com
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Acknowledgments: Galleria Rossana Orlandi for the furnishings, floor lamp, bowls and vase; Spazio ‘900 for the vintage pieces;
Memphis Milano and B. Morone for the vases.
Courtesy Università degli Studi of Padua
