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Plastic chair designed by Verner Panton

The Panton Chair (Danish: Pantonstolen) is an S-shaped plastic chair created by the Danish designer Verner Panton in the 1960s.

The world's first moulded plastic chair, it is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Danish design.

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The chair was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon.^[1]

History

The idea of designing a stackable plastic chair was first expressed by the German architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe before the Second World War.

From the early 1950s, Panton too had dreamt of making a stackable, cantilevered plastic chair all in one piece. It is said he had been inspired in particular by a neatly stacked pile of plastic buckets. In 1956, he designed the S Chair which can be considered a forerunner of the Panton Chair.

He saw it as an item of furniture in which the back, seat and legs were made of the continuous piece. It was first produced in 1965.^[2][3]

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