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. The chair was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon. 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. Panton made a series of sketches and design drawings for the Panton Chair in the 1950s. In 1960, he created his first model, a plaster-cast, in collaboration with Dansk Akrylteknik.
[2] In the mid-1960s, he met Willi Fehlbaum from the furniture manufacturer Vitra who, unlike many other producers, was fascinated with the drawings of his legless chair in plastic rather than wood, the favoured material of the times. Working closely with Fehlbaum, Panton produced a cold-pressed model using polyester strengthened with fibreglass. For the first time, an entire chair had been designed in one piece, without any legs. It became known as a free-swinger. The first rather heavy model, which required substantial finishing work, was subsequently improved and adapted to industrial production using thermoplastic polystyrene which led to a marked reduction in cost.[4] In 1968, Vitra initiated serial production of the final version which was sold by the Herman Miller Furniture Company. The material used was Baydur, a high-resilience polyurethane foam produced by Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany. It was varnished in seven colors. In 1979, however, production was halted as it became apparent that polystyrene was not sufficiently durable and began to look shabby over time.
Four years later, the model was again produced as the Panton Chair Classic, this time in the rather more expensive polyurethane structural foam. Finally, in 1999, Vitra used polypropylene for manufacturing the Panton Plastic Chair in a variety of colours. Panton was a contributor to the development of sleek new styles reflecting the "Space Age" of the 1960s which became known as Pop Art. The Panton Chair in particular was seen as being sleek and curvaceous. When it was unveiled in the Danish design journal Mobilia in 1967, it caused a sensation. In 1970, it was featured in the British fashion magazine Nova with a sequence of shots illustrating "How to undress in front of your husband".[6] Perhaps the chair's most famous appearance was in January 1995, when it was featured on the cover of the British edition of Vogue. The photograph by Nick Knight also included a naked Kate Moss. Over the years, the Panton Chair, initially known as Panton's S Chair, has been widely exhibited in Denmark and abroad.
It currently forms part of the permanent collections some of the world's most famous design museums including, New York's Museum of Modern Art, London's Design Museum, Berlin's German Historical Museum and Copenhagen's Danish Museum of Art & Design.Retrieved 5 February 2013. ^ a b "Verner Panton: Panton-stolen, 1960", Skoletjenesen. ^ "A Century of Chairs", Design Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2013. ^ a b Vivi Sjøner, "Panton Chair – verdens første", Jyllands-Posten, 8 June 2011. ^ Kate Watson-Smyth, "The Secret History Of: The Verner Panton S Chair", The Independent, 22 October 2010. ^ Michael Johnson, "Verner Panton: Genius of Danish Design Part 2", Knoji Consumer Knowledge. ^ Stacey Cosens, "Verner Panton is considered to be one of Denmark’s most influential furniture designers, creating fun, innovative and futuristic pieces", Vintage Seekers. ^ Lars Dybdahl, "Verner Panton", Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon. ^ "Verner Panton: Official Reference Portal".
Retrieved 6 February 2013.Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche Ein roter Panton Chair Der Panton Chair ist ein von dem dänischen Designer und Architekten Verner Panton entworfener Freischwinger bzw. Stuhl, der bis heute produziert wird und als Klassiker der Pop Art und des Möbeldesigns gilt. Schon während seines Studiums entwickelte Verner Panton hinterbeinlose Stühle. Im Jahr 1955 entstand ein S-förmiger Stuhl aus durchgängig geformtem Schichtholz in geschwungener Kontur.[1] Pantons Ziel aber war es, einen Stuhl aus Kunststoff zu fertigen, da er von den Eigenschaften und Möglichkeiten dieses Materials begeistert war. Ende der 1950er Jahre gelang es ihm, ein erstes Modell des Panton Chairs aus Kunststoff zu entwickeln. Trotz einer öffentlichen Ausstellung auf Eriksholm bei Helsingör fand sich kein geeigneter Hersteller für die Serienproduktion. Panton arbeitete daher wieder mit Holz.[1] 1963 kam es allerdings zu einer Kooperation mit dem Schweizer Unternehmen Vitra. Zusammen wurde ein Panton Chair für die Serienproduktion entwickelt, der im August 1967 erstmals öffentlich präsentiert wurde.
Seitdem wurde der Stuhl – mit Unterbrechung in den Jahren zwischen 1979 und 1983, in denen die Produktion vorübergehend eingestellt war – in vier verschiedenen Varianten und aus unterschiedlichen Kunststoffmaterialien hergestellt. Silla Panton apilable realizada en una sola pieza de inyección de plástico. Fue presentada en 1967 por Vitra y aún continúa en producción. Verner Panton (13 de febrero de 1926 en Gamtofte, Dinamarca - 5 de septiembre de 1998 en Copenhague, Dinamarca) fue un diseñador industrial danés considerado como uno de los más influyentes del diseño de mobiliario de fines del siglo XX. Durante su carrera ha creado una variedad de diseños innovadores y futuristas, especialmente construidos en plástico y con colores brillantes. La mayoría de sus diseños más conocidos continúan en producción. Verner asistió a la Escuela Técnica de Odense y luego estudió arquitectura en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Copenhague (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) donde se recibió en 1951.
En los primeros años de su carrera, entre 1950 y 1952, trabajó en el estudio de arquitectura de Arne Jacobsen, otro diseñador y arquitecto danés. En 1955 abrió su propio estudio de arquitectura y diseño. Se hizo famoso con sus muebles basados en formas geométricas fabricados por la empresa Plus-linje. A fines de la década de 1950 sus diseños de sillas sin patas ni respaldo discernible se hicieron cada vez menos convencionales. La predilección de Verner Panton por los colores intensos y las formas geométricas queda patente en su vasta obra como diseñador textil. Las composiciones espaciales de Panton son reconocidas por fusionar suelos, paredes y techos, así como muebles, lámparas, tejidos y paneles de esmalte o plástico para formar una unidad espacial tan perfecta como indivisible. Las naves Visiona de la Feria del Mueble de Colonia (1968 y 1970), las oficinas de la editorial Spiegel (1969) y el restaurante Varna de Aarhus (1970) son solo algunos de los ejemplos más sobresalientes.