< PreviousDesired objects commercialinteriordesign.com February 2022 50 V erner Panton is considered one of Denmark's most infl uential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. He was born in February 1926 and passed away in September 1998, aged 72. Panton studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. After graduating in 1951, he served as an apprentice to pioneering Functionalist designer Arne Jacobsen, assisting him in the execution of the iconic Ant Chair. Although infl uenced by Jacobsen's organic style, Panton initially established himself as an avant-garde designer, creating furniture based on elaborate geometric shapes, using strong colours. 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 fi rst single-form injection-moulded plastic chair. The Stacking chair or S chair was mass produced and became the most famous of his designs derived from organic shapes echoing curves of the human body. With interiors, Panton constructed psychedelic worlds and experimented with colour in ways that the design world had not seen before. He became a trailblazer whose work captures the rambunctious spirit of the 1960s, not bowing down to Danish designer Verner Panton His noted Spiegel lamp was reissued by lighting brand Verpan in 2021 Design by Verner Panton /© Verner Panton Design AG images. In the fi eld of interior design, Panton's most reputed work is the offi ce building of the magazine group Der Spiegel in Hamburg that was completed in 1969. The walls, fl oors, ceilings and furnishings of the lounges and cafeterias were turned into colourful pieces of art. Some of Verner Panton's most famous works, such as the Panton Chair and the Panthella Lamp, have been in production without interruption for decades or have returned to production in recent years. In October 2021, lighting brand Verpan reissued Panton's Spiegel lamp, which was designed in 1969 for the noted Hamburg publishing house. The large quadratic lamp has a circular, domed recess at its centre that houses its light source .THE MARKET LEADING PLATFORM FOR THE INTERIOR DESIGN AND FIT-OUT INDUSTRY COMMERCIALINTERIORDESIGN.COM CID Website advert_New website.indd 112/12/2021 18:19:11Next >