Stacking Chair
Verner Panton (Danish, 1926–1998)
- Maker
- Verner Panton (Danish, 1926–1998)
- Date
- introduced in 1967
- Medium
- Orange ASA Terpolymer (molded glass fiber)
- Dimensions
- 32.8 x 20.7 x 23.7 in. (83.2 x 52.7 x 60.3 cm)
- Origin
- Zeeland
- Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Accession
- 1973.106.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Herman Miller, Inc.
Throughout the twentieth century, designers dreamed of mass-producing a chair that would require no assembly of any kind. This chair, which allows for stacking, was the first single-piece plastic chair. It resulted from a design process that took seven years (1960–67), and during which its creator, the Danish designer Verner Panton, overcame near insurmountable problems. The chair became an icon of Pop design.