noooo!

i just nearly broke my neck. when i sat on my panton chair (a verner panton original from 1972) it cracked half through and now looks like this:

the saddest part is, that the chair was a birthday present from my parents and is the most expensive piece of furniture i own (besides my selfmade sideboard/shelf which you can see in the background of the pictures). now i have to decide if i want to shell out big cash to get a new old panton chair from el trapero or a new new cheaper chair from vitra. if you’ve been at the expo in neuchatel you know them, a horrible tupperware-like polypropylene, not the heavy haptically interesting polyurethane. guess who is soon paying an unreasonable high amount of cash for a simple chair :-)