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My parents got two white panton chairs from the company they worked for. Thanks to old pictures of the family, i can see they have them already more than 25 years!
My question; When did they start to produce replica's??? Could these chairs be real? because there are no marks or stamps... But they are also made of polypropylene, like the panton classic. (havy material!)
thanks in advance
Panton Chair History
: Vitra and Herman Miller
Painted fiberglass
-: Vitra and Herman Miller
Painted polyurethane (heavy)
-: Herman Miller
-: Vitra
Dyed polystyrene (with molded ribs under the seat to keep it from cracking)
-: Horn GmbH
-Present: Vitra
Painted polyurethane (the Vitra models have Panton's signature molded into the base, so they can be differentiated from the original PU production; I don't know whether the Horn models also have the signature)
-Present: Vitra
Dyed polypropylene
If your chairs are 25+ years old, they're authentic; knockoffs have only recently been cost-effective to make.
If your chairs are painted, have no ribs under the seat, and have no signature, they're either 40-year-old polyurethane or (if Horn chairs don't have the signature) 21- to 28-year-old polyurethane.
many thanks!!!
many thanks!!!
Vintage Panton ID please
Great production history, thanks. Did you ever see an S chair with the raised marks: XX underneath the seat near the round injection nipple, ribs not only at the base but also extra Ones, longer, that are parallel to the edges of both sides at the lower back and follow through under the seat? (Hardly visable from the back view). Wondering what year this one is & where it was made. I've had it 20 years & bought if from someone in US who thought they had it 20 years.
Thank You!
Panton lover
I have one too
Dark brown dyed, heavy plastic, ribs (but not the same ribs as Herman Miller production), unmarked, undated. Looks like it has some age to it.
Been trying to figure this one out.
Its . . .
It's really difficult. Ive got a Panton Chair sat here. Very heavy at almost 6/7kgs (trying to weigh it on bathroom scales!?!). Painted gloss white. Total height 32". Seat height 17" Couple of pics below showing base of chair & a small section where paint has been chipped.
Looks like fiberglass
Any markings?
No markings . . .
Can't see any markings on it.
Ive measured the chair and the sizes match those given on the Vitra website.
Like I said, tried to weigh the chair on bathroom scales but it was proving to be difficult, but it is heavy.
I bought it approx 1 year ago and have been using it as an office chair. But it was not until I recently purchased two cheap "Panton" chairs made from ABS plastic that In noticed a significant difference in quality.
Weighing is difficult?
Stand on scale while holding chair. Stand on scale without chair. Subtract.
It is . . .
More than likely to be from here . . .
http://www.barkerandstonehouse.co.uk/furniture/Dining-Room/Dining%20Chai...
But who would the manufacturer be?
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In that case
It's probably manufactured in China.
What is the age of this chair
Hello, I have just saved these chairs from someone who would throw them away. As you can see, they arre in very bad shape. Would I (have them)repaint or not and are they worth something?
I just cleand them and found a off seemed sticker "herman miller collection" I really don't dear to sit on this +40 jear old icon...
thank you
http://www.flickr.com/photos/@N05//in/photostream/
Then
it was manufactured by Vitra. The company used these labels until , I think.
panton
thanx for te fast response
Does anyone know how to renovate these chairs. Because there is little information on. or does the chair lose all its value when doing? As an architect student, I will certainly not sell them, but I want to know how much this is worth.
I have added pictures after the cleaning. ik looks like onley the primer stayed on. they are realy matt. I also pictures of what's left over from the "Herman miller collection" sticker
http://www.flickr.com/photos/@N05//in/photostream/
True color
The true color of the chairs is underneath the paint. I would suggest stripping the paint and refinishing.
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The Panton Chair (Danish: Pantonstolen) is an S-shaped plastic chair created by the Danish designer Verner Panton in the s. 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 Danish Culture Canon.[1]
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 s, 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 , 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 .[2][3]
Panton made a series of sketches and design drawings for the Panton Chair in the s. In , he created his first model, a plaster-cast, in collaboration with Dansk Akrylteknik.[2] In the mid-s, 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 , 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 offered in several colors.[5]
In , however, production was halted as it became apparent that polystyrene[clarification needed] 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 , Vitra used polypropylene for manufacturing the Panton Plastic Chair in a variety of colors.[4]
Panton was a contributor to the development of sleek new styles reflecting the "Space Age" of the s 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 , it caused a sensation. In , 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 , when it was featured on the cover of the British edition of Vogue. The photograph by Nick Knight also included a naked Kate Moss.[7]
The Panton Chair S shape design continues to be popular today, and has been re-imagined in exotic materials such as rattan, bamboo, and even banana leaf. [8][9]
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.[10][11] [12]