Friday, October 19, 2018

Artist of the day, October 19: Verner Panton, Danish product designer and architect

Verner Panton (1926 – 1998)  was a Danish designer and architect who is considered one of Denmark's most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics, and in vibrant and exotic colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; as of 2004, Panton's most well-known furniture models are still in production.

Panton studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, graduating in 1951. During the first two years of his career, 1950–1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer. Panton turned out to be an "enfant terrible" and he started his own design and architectural office. He became well known for his innovative architectural proposals, including a collapsible house (1955), the Cardboard House and the Plastic House (1960). Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became much more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back. In 1960 Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair. The Stacking chair or S chair, became his most famous and mass-produced design resulting organic shapes inspired by the human body requirements, the tongue.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Verner Panton experimented with designing entire environments: radical and psychedelic interiors that were an ensemble of his curved furniture, wall upholstering, textiles and lighting. He is perhaps best known for a series of interior designs for Bayer's yearly product exhibition, held aboard excursion boats, one is now preserved in a museum. He is also known for a hotel in Europe that utilized circular patterns and cylindrical furniture.

Additionally, Panton is well known for his innovative design work for Der Spiegel, a well-known German publication in Hamburg.

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Mr Verner Panton

1-2-3 chair

1-2-3 chair


Cone Bar Stools

Cone chair

Easy Sofa

Cone chair

Heart Cone Chair

Heart Cone Chair

Organic design armchair

Panton  "S" Chair


Panton  "S" Chair

Panton  "S" Chair

Panton  "S" Chair family

Panton  "S" Chair

Panton  "S" Chair

Panton  "S" Chair

Panton ZigZag chair

Pantonic 5000 chair

Pantonic 5000 chair

Vilbert chair

Vilbert chair

1970 Varna Restaurant


 Luminous Ring


Playground (Fort Lauderdale airport)

Sofa

Wave


Fantasy Landscape, 1968-70

Fantasy Landscape, 1968-70

Fantasy Landscape, 1968-70

Living tower

Muse Panthella Mini lamp

Muse Panthella Mini lamp

Muse Panthella Mini lamp

Muse Panthella Mini lamp

Panthella Chrome lamp

1960's table lamp

Big Flower Pot pendants lamp


Moon Lamp

Pop-Art Chandelier

Wire Iron Mid-Century Modern Table Lamp

Bubble Mirror



Vintage textile

Fabric Panel, 1960

Art Deco Carpet

Square, Multi colour rug

Vintage textile

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