Stacking Side Chair

Stacking Side Chair

1959-60
Designer
Verner Panton, Danish, 1926-1998
Born: Denmark
Work Locations: Basel, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark
Manufacturer
Vitra, AG, Swiss, 1950-
Work Locations: Birsfelden, Switzerland, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Herman Miller, Inc., 1923-
Work Locations: Michigan
Country
Denmark
Object
chair
Medium
Fiberglass
Accession Number
1996.382.1
Credit Line
Funds from 1996 Design Council Benefit
Verner Panton (Danish). Stacking Side Chair. 1959-60. Fiberglass. Funds from 1996 Design Council Benefit. 1996.382.1.
Dimensions
height: 32 1/8 in, 81.5975 cm; width: 19 1/4 in, 48.895 cm; depth: 18 1/2 in, 46.99 cm; seat height: 16 1/4 in, 41.275 cm
Department
Architecture and Design
Collection
Architecture and Design

Verner Panton
Danish, 1926–98
Stacking Side Chair
About 1960–67
Polyurethane plastic
Manufactured by Vitra GmbH for Herman Miller International, USA
Funds from 1996 Design Council Benefit, 1996.382.1

Throughout the twentieth century, designers dreamed of mass-producing a chair made from a single piece of material that would require no assembly. Verner Panton’s stacking chair was the first single-piece chair to enter large-scale production. Panton remarked on his innovative furniture forms, “The result rarely has four legs, not because I do not wish to make such a chair, but because the processing of materials like plastic calls for new shapes.”

Known Provenance
Purchased 5 October 1996 from (Bonhams), London (20th Century Design sale, lot 134) by the Denver Art Museum.
Exhibition History
  • "What Is Modern?"—Denver Art Museum, 10/30/2010 - 3/24/2013