Peacock Chair, 1959

In the centenary year of Verner Panton’s birth, Karakter x Cassina honours the Danish designer’s legacy with the reissue of the Peacock Chair – a landmark piece that challenged the conventions of Scandinavian design.

First conceived in 1959 as part of Panton’s celebrated Wire series, the Peacock Chair marked a radical departure from the era’s prevailing wooden furniture tradition. The chair’s avant-garde character rests on three principles: transparency, industrial production, and bold pop colours. True to its name, the chair fans outward like a peacock’s tail. Its steel framework cradles a hemispherical seat fitted with seven round cushions. A swivel truncated-cone base allows seat height adjustment, and two inclination settings let the chair function as either a classic armchair or, with the base removed, a rocking chair.

While a simplified version was produced in limited quantities during the 1960s, today’s reissue faithfully follows Panton’s original drawings.