Chair Styles From the 70s

Retro Ball Chair

• Originally known as the Ball Chair, the Retro Ball Chair is a classic 1970 vintage chair. In the shape of a sphere, the Retro Ball Chair has a hard fiberglass shell with a fiberglass-covered metal stand. The cotton fabric inside the fiberglass shell was in a standard red or orange in the 1970s.

Classic Cone Chair

• Designer Verner Panton created the Cone Chair in 1956 for a Danish restaurant. This chair featured a striking design and daring red color, and it became a hit in the mid-century era. The cone chair had a four-legged metal stand and a cotton fabric cone-shaped silhouette. Decades later, it is not uncommon to see this chair in bars and hotel lobbies.

Corona Chair

• Designer Paul Volther created the Corona Chair in 1968. This chair has a metal stand that transforms into thin metal bands. On these bands lay a fabric seat, two slightly spaced fabric back-padding pieces and a head padding. The design is known as a "floating spine" due to the shape and spacing of the fabric padding pieces.

Panton S Chair

• Verner Panton created the Panton S Chair in 1967. The Panton S Chair -- S Chair for short -- was the first single-form chair invented in the history of furniture. Made of plastic, the S Chair received its name for its deep S-shaped curves. Popular in the 1970s, the S chair led the revolution to the single-formed plastic chairs used today.

Little Tulip Chair

• In 1965, designer Pierre Paulin designed the Little Tulip Chair as a smaller version of the Big Tulip Chair, and it became a more likable style for its era. The Little Tulip Chair has a metal circular base with a long metal pole that leads up to the chair seating. The chair's blue backrest and arms raise high with deep indentations to replicate the opening of a tulip.