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Product name: Panton Chair
Designer: Wienal Panton
Design time: 1967
Does this chair look familiar? Does it sound incredible to make a chair in ten years? It is the famous Panton Chair in the history of industrial design.
If you want to list the important chair works in the history of furniture, Vitra's Panton Chair is definitely on the list. Panton Chair is the first integrated, injection-molded plastic chair in history. It abandons the idea that the chair must have four legs and has the unique strength and beauty of cantilever seats.
The iconic shape of Panton Chair makes it highly recognizable, and the design story behind Panton Chair may not be particularly familiar to you.
Panton's works are both eye-catching and imaginative, and sometimes extremely sexy. It can be said that there is no simple shadow of Nordic design, which is like declaring war on traditional design. But also because of Verner Panton's boldness and unbridled design, the design has since been liberated, demonstrating unprecedented freedom and fun in the past. Verner Panton has also become an important representative figure leading the design of the 60 s.
Although it is no longer sure when it started, Verner Panton began to have the idea of combining his name with design, but according to some old notes left by himself and sketches at that time, around 1959, he began to focus on the research of integrated cantilever plastic chairs-who expected it to take nearly ten years to realize this idea.
Later, when Panton Chair came out in 1967, everyone knew that this was the first independently developed work in the history of Vitra, but in fact there was an extremely time-consuming and difficult development process behind it. In the following years, Panton Chair's materials and manufacturing technology underwent several changes, and gradually became a classic indicator with era symbols in the history of furniture development.
The current version uses polypropylene (Polypropylene) to manufacture Panton Chair through injection molding, which is extremely light, resistant to heavy pressure, 100% environmentally friendly, non-toxic, and UV resistant. Most importantly, because the cost has been greatly reduced, everyone now has the opportunity to own this classic master work at a reasonable price.
Panton Chair (Panton Chair) not only established Verner Panton's important position in the design circle, but also can be said to be a revolutionary breakthrough in the history of modern furniture.