VERPAN Series 270 F Armchair Verner Panton 2025

Verner Panton’s Series 270 F Armchair Returns Through VERPAN Collaboration

The Series 270 F Armchair is an exploration of modularity and modernism in bent plywood.

Originally developed in 1965/66, the light yet structured design offered a fresh take on functionality and form.

Recognising how it speaks to our time, VERPAN, in close collaboration with Verner Panton Design AG, is set to reintroduce one of Verner Panton’s rare gems: the Series 270 F Armchair.

VERPAN Series 270 F collection showing multiple color variants: blue, red, orange, black, honey-stained finishes

Composed of bent and lacquered FSC-certified birch plywood, the Series 270 F Armchair embodies visual lightness and formal clarity. Its instantly recognisable frame – produced in a range of striking colours including blue, red, orange, black, and honey-stained – can be paired with cushions in Kvadrat Hallingdal textile or Sørensens leather. The result is a thoroughly modern chair that feels just as imaginative and forward-thinking today as it did six decades ago.

As a serial production model, the Series 270 F was conceived as a modular system – three distinct sections that could be combined to create a wide range of configurations, including chairs, armchairs, tables, and stools.

Originally manufactured in Germany for Gebr. Thonet, today in Latvia, it was awarded the bronze medal at the Österreichischen Bauzentrum in Vienna in 1968. A later variant of the series, featuring upholstered seats and backs, received the Deutsche Auswahl 1982 accolade from the Design Center Stuttgart.

Verner Panton Danish designer revolutionary colorful futuristic furniture plastic materials 1960s design visionary Born in 1926, Verner Panton came to represent a new direction and energy in Danish design history – deeply original, daringly experimental – for close to five decades. Creating visually distinctive furniture, lighting and objects as well as immersive interiors, his spirit and work remains radically ahead of the curve. Concerned with the future and our capacity to imagine it, his vast output is full of vibrant and playful pieces with a social character, made to be enjoyed, for pleasure.

VERPAN – for Verner Panton – is a design company working closely with Verner Panton Design AG to preserve, reissue and recontextualise the Danish architect and designer’s radiant body of work – from minute objects to immersive environments. Verner Panton’s lighting and furniture is testament to a playful and unconventional spirit, spanning his most celebrated work and recently rediscovered pieces.