Next up in our series about mid-century modern design is the Panton chair by Danish designer Verner Panton. Still produced today by Swiss furniture brand Vitra, the cantilevered plastic chair made ...

Panton first began exploring the idea of a mono-material cantilevered chair in the mid-1950s, entering several designs into a 1956 design competition sponsored by the German furniture firm WK-Möbel.

Verner Panton caused a sensation with his pioneering approach to furniture and lighting design. For our mid-century modern series, we profile the Danish designer whose colourful pieces and ...

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Produced by Swiss furniture brand Vitra, with whom Verner Panton often worked after moving to Basel in 1963, it made history as the first all-plastic chair made in one piece with a cantilever design.