#pantonchair

It’s Monday morning and Chick has to go back to work. As much as she enjoys her job, this morning she wishes she were laying out in the sun, at the beach, like she did the last two mornings.

50 years after the launch of the iconic #PantonChair the Panton Chrome, a #limitededition will be available for the first time. Visit @vitra at at imm cologne to get a first glance. #vitra #vernerpanton #immcologne2018 The Panton Chrome will be available in spring 2018 #archiproducts (presso imm cologne)

Verner Panton designed the S Chair in 1956 which became the Panton Chair manufactured by Vitra. It was the first plastic stackable chair designed for serial production sold by Herman Miller Furniture Company. The originals were made with polyurethane structural foam, but I have a fake set made of fiber glass painted in white polyurethane. Plastic was considered high tech at the time, but I have them on a Saltillo Mexican tile which makes for a hard contrast. Making clay impression of the mid-century modern design of the Panton Chair laying on a low-tech clay tile floor reflects the evolution of societal use of materials and its humble beginnings.