Next up in our series about mid-century modern design is the Panton chair by Danish designer Verner Panton. Still produced today by Swiss furniture brand Vitra, the cantilevered plastic chair made ...

And what's the history of this iconic chair? The "ADHD sofa" is otherwise known as Vitra's Panton Living Tower, designed by Verner Panton in 1969. Part couch, part furniture sculpture, this ...

In 1963, he visited Willi Fehlbaum, the founder of Vitra, in Basel and showed him the Panton chair.Fehlbaum was interested but the project was put on hold until his son, Rolf, decided to invest in ...