Cone Chair
Verner Panton designed the Cone Chair in 1958 for a Danish restaurant he owned, and its geometry was a provocation from the start. A cone, inverted and balanced on a cruciform stainless steel swivel base, defied every convention of what a chair was supposed to look like.
The form is simultaneously sculptural and functional. A semi-circular upholstered shell wraps the sitter with a padded interior and a loose seat cushion, delivering comfort within a silhouette that reads as pure object. Panton was not interested in furniture that disappeared into a room. He wanted presence, tension, a conversation between form and space.
- Designed by Verner Panton in 1958
- Produced by Vitra in faithful collaboration with the Panton estate
- Inverted cone shell on a stainless steel swivel base
- Fully upholstered with a removable seat cushion
- Available in a range of fabric and leather options
Panton spent his career asking how far form could travel before it ceased to function, and the Cone Chair is among his most direct answers. It remains a defining artifact of postwar Scandinavian design, as radical today as when it first appeared.
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Cone Chair
Verner Panton designed the Cone Chair in 1958 for a Danish restaurant he owned, and its geometry was a provocation from the start. A cone, inverted and balanced on a cruciform stainless steel swivel base, defied every convention of what a chair was supposed to look like.
The form is simultaneously sculptural and functional. A semi-circular upholstered shell wraps the sitter with a padded interior and a loose seat cushion, delivering comfort within a silhouette that reads as pure object. Panton was not interested in furniture that disappeared into a room. He wanted presence, tension, a conversation between form and space.
- Designed by Verner Panton in 1958
- Produced by Vitra in faithful collaboration with the Panton estate
- Inverted cone shell on a stainless steel swivel base
- Fully upholstered with a removable seat cushion
- Available in a range of fabric and leather options
Panton spent his career asking how far form could travel before it ceased to function, and the Cone Chair is among his most direct answers. It remains a defining artifact of postwar Scandinavian design, as radical today as when it first appeared.
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Verner Panton designed the Cone Chair in 1958 for a Danish restaurant he owned, and its geometry was a provocation from the start. A cone, inverted and balanced on a cruciform stainless steel swivel base, defied every convention of what a chair was supposed to look like.
The form is simultaneously sculptural and functional. A semi-circular upholstered shell wraps the sitter with a padded interior and a loose seat cushion, delivering comfort within a silhouette that reads as pure object. Panton was not interested in furniture that disappeared into a room. He wanted presence, tension, a conversation between form and space.
- Designed by Verner Panton in 1958
- Produced by Vitra in faithful collaboration with the Panton estate
- Inverted cone shell on a stainless steel swivel base
- Fully upholstered with a removable seat cushion
- Available in a range of fabric and leather options
Panton spent his career asking how far form could travel before it ceased to function, and the Cone Chair is among his most direct answers. It remains a defining artifact of postwar Scandinavian design, as radical today as when it first appeared.
