Verner Panton (February 13rd 1926, Gamtofte - September 5th 1998, Copenhagen) is a designer Danish. He is regarded as one of most influential 20th century. During its career, it created objects with the design innovating and futuristic. It had a predilection for all that made it possible to sit down, and usually used the plastic with bright colors and generous curves. Its style does of them one of the most typical designers of the Années 1960.

Biography

Panton initially received a training of engineer architect to Odense. Then he studied with the royal Academy of the fine arts of Copenhagen. During the first two years of its career, 1950-1952, he collaborates with Arne Jacobsen, another famous architect and Danish designer. Panton known to be a “enfant terrible”, stops his collaboration with Arne Jacobsen and founds in 1955 its own studio of creation.

At the end of the years 1950, its chairs become less and less conventional, the feet disappear and the files grow blurred, for example one of these first armchairs K1 is a cone, it will decline of many times this idea. In 1960, Panton designs the first plastic chair moulded by injection, the Panton . It is a chair in S which can be encased easily. It is always produced in series by Vitra and became its most famous creation.

Towards end of the year 60, Verner Panton forsakes a time the creation of objects to devote itself to the design of environments, environments which one could describe as radicals and especially Psychédélique S because forming coloured units, composed of forms curved, walls papered and of light, the whole occupies all the space of the ground to the ceiling. One of the examples more speaking is the design of the interior of the steamer Loreley with Cologne in 1970, at the request of Bayer AG. There Panton carries out some thing which is connected with a mixture between the interior of the Ground and of the Human body. Its concept was: “The house of tomorrow”. Thereafter this boat will become a museum. In Germany always, it decorated the offices with the newspaper Der Spiegel. Another of its famous creations is the hotel Astoria of Trondheim in Norway, with the circular reasons and the cylindrical objects.

Today, its most famous creations are always in production and in exposure to the museum of the design Vitra, in Germany. As much of designer of this period it knew to find interest with the eyes of the public at the end of the 20th century, when this tendency was given to the last style.

Remarkable work of design

• the seats Cone (1958): K1, K2, K3

• the seat Panton (1959 - 1960)
• the seat Living room tower (1968 - 1969)

External bonds

• vernerpanton.com
• www.panton.ch
• Panton flesh
• More than 120 items drawn by Verner Panton on architonic.com: with images, information and results of auction