Panorammma's Chainmail Chair uses William Katavolos's 1952 T-Chair as its starting point, a canonical piece of postwar furniture design built around a T-shaped tubular frame. The structure is retained; the seat is replaced. Where Katavolos used leather, Maika Palazuelos substitutes hand-linked metal rings, a mesh assembled from individually connected pieces of steel that drapes across the frame under its own weight.

The material choice is specific. Chainmail is a construction technique with a long history in protective armour, where its value lies precisely in combining strength with flexibility. Applied to a chair seat, it does the same thing structurally: the mesh distributes load across the linked rings while remaining pliable enough to conform to the body. The result is a seat that is both visibly hard and functionally soft, holding its form when unoccupied and yielding when sat in.

The contrast between the rigid T-frame and the draped mesh is the piece's central formal tension. Panorammma's practice consistently positions functional objects within broader narratives, and the Chainmail Chair sits within that logic: a reference to medieval armour applied to a domestic seating typology, displacing both references just enough to make the object feel like neither one.