The Panna Chair, which means cream in Italian, is the evolution of the Pane, or bread, chair, initially shown in 2006 at the Museo della Permanente in Milan. The Pane Chair was named for its unique production method using a mold to literally bake the raw materials in a large oven, hardening and securing their form. Wanting to create a similar concept but find a more practical means to production, the producer Moroso introduced several prototypes in Milan. These prototypes performed similarly in that they molded to the user as he sat in them. They were “dressed” in a puffy white quilted industrial fabric used for carrying precision instruments, pulled over the chair form. Only twenty of these limited edition prototypes were made, 10 in white and 10 in blue.

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