C1 of Vitra Inc. USA

Designer Verner Panton
Year 1959, reedition 2008
Architonic id 1072382

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Verner Panton’s career as a designer first peaked at the end of the 1950s. With a series of furniture featuring basic geometrical shapes he pre-empted Pop Art ideas and yet with the base frames clearly adopted the elegance of Scandinavian Modernism. The best-known models from the series are the Cone Chairs and Heart Cone Chairs, originally designed for a restaurant. With the C1 armchair created around the same time, Verner Panton for the first time chose a section of a sphere. On swivel bearings and slightly tilted, the upholstered seat shell is astonishingly comfortable – both for relaxed sitting leaning back and for upright sitting. The C1 can be integrated into private apartments, hotels or reception areas, cuts a fine figure in larger groups, and can be complimented by the matching Stool.

Materials
Laminated body, brushed stainless steel base and central tube, polyurethane foam upholstery.

C1 735 × 660 × 580 mm
C1 Stool 450 × Ø 620 mm