Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen, a smow Pop-up at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
...A 1950s Denmark that also saw the origins of considerations on the possibility of a chair that it would be 1967 before it was realised and 1968 before it became a series product: Verner Panton's eponymous chair through Vitra... A Panton Chair that, arguably, couldn't have been realised in the Denmark of that period, regardless of the symbolism of Jacobsen's SAS Royal hotel, required Verner Panton to look outwith Denmark for a partner; a Panton Chair that took the cantilever of a Stam's S 33 and its contemporaries and not only translated it from steel tubing into polyurethane, thereby helping confirm the durability of synthetic plastics, but also rounded the Cubist corners of the Functionalist Modernist steel tube furniture of the 1920s as 30s, and thereby not only began to find a way back to the flowing curves of a Michael Thonet, but also created a piece of furniture more attune with the less formal, less rigid, less austere, less quadratic, somewhat freer, mellower, organic, western European society of the 1970s...
