Antiques Roadshow expert Will Farmer jokes 'I'm gone' as he turns back on guest over valuation

Antiques Roadshow expert Will Farmer humorously declared "I'm gone" and walked away from a guest on Sunday night, unable to contain his excitement over the guest's knowledge of his two chairs.

He started by saying: "Well, here we are before a bold and striking architectural building, and we've got two bold and striking architectural chairs."

He then asked the guest: "I've got to ask the question, are we cut from the same cloth? Are you a bit of a design nut?"

The guest responded affirmatively, stating: "I think I am, yeah," and added: "I love the fact that chairs have a fairly simple function. They just have to hold up someone's weight, but the different materials and different designs they can be made of are just fantastic."

Will then shared the backstory of the chairs' creator, saying: "And what we've got here are two amazing examples, but by one designer, that designer is the great Verner Panton, and Verner Panton for people who've not heard of him, is Danish architect, designer," reports the Express.

He continued: "When we look at his catalog of designs, the one nearest to you is considered an icon of 20th-century design. This chair is featured in collections and museums all over the world. This is strictly called the Panton chair, known as the S-Chair."

He concluded by praising the design: "And it's so clever because it was a single molded piece. It took him 10 years to actually get to a production-ready design. It didn't get shown until 1967in Geneva."

On the show, Will highlighted a "problem" with the early models of a certain chair, as the visitor mentioned: "They snapped."

He then added about the chair's design improvements: "I'm a fairly sturdy chap, I'm not going to plonk myself on that, and actually, they