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Panton Chair, the cult chair by Verner Panton plastic

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The Panton Chair was designed in the Danish designer Verner Panton in 1960.

In reality, the first plaster model was made in 1960, the first drawings are from 1950 when Verner Panton had the idea of ​​designing a stackable plastic seat in a single piece.

Intermediate stage between the idea and its final materialization in the Panton Chair was another chair called S Chair, Name derived from his silhouettes to S.

Around 1965 the development of the Panton Chair continued thanks to Panton's meeting with Willi Fehlbaum of Vitra, together they created a first version of the chair, in fiberglass and polyester, which however was heavy and expensive, as well as requiring many hours of work. for finishing.

After an intermediate version polystyrene, in 1968 Vitra began production in series using a high-strength polyurethane foam painted in colors 7. Even this solution after a few years turned out to be unsuitable and in 1979 the production was stopped.

The version currently in production of the Panton Chair is made of polypropylene.

The Panton Chair is one of the pieces that has marked the history of modern design, is exhibited in museums all over the world: Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Design Museum in London, the German Historical Museum in Berlin and the Danish Museum of Art & Design in Copenhagen.

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