Panton was trained as an
architectural engineer in Odense; next, he studied architecture
at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, graduating in
1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950-1952, he
worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another
Danish architect and furniture designer. Near the end of the
1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional,
with no legs or discernible back. In 1960 Panton was the
designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic
chair. The Stacking chair or S chair, which would become his
most famous and mass-produced design.
