Verner Panton
Verner Panton (13 February 1926 – 5 September 1998) 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 best-known furniture models are still in production (at Vitra, among others).
Verner Panton
5 September 1998(1998-09-05) (aged 72)
Architect
Biography[edit]
Panton was already an experienced artist in Odense when he went to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) 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 was mass-produced and became the most famous of his designs derived from organic shapes echoing curves of the human body – in this case the tongue.[1]
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.[2]
1974 – Design of the offices in Hamburg.
Gruner & Jahr Publishing House
1977 – Fritz Hansen produces the seating programme.
System 1-2-3
1978 – Colour and decoration concept of the passage to the underground parking lot at the .
University Hospital in Basel
1984 – in Copenhagen is renovated on the basis of a colour design by Panton.
The Circus Building
1990 – The Panton Chair is relaunched by , which is the occasion for famous designer colleagues to present their Hommage à Panton.
Vitra
1994 – For Ikea he designs the .
Vilbert Chair
1995 – Start of the collaboration with .
VS-Möbel
1995/96 – On the occasion of the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta, Panton designed a in 1995. The tower was first set up on the lake in Lausanne in 1996. It consists of 63 individual, colored rings and a large Swatch clock in the middle. Later, in summer 1996, it was exhibited in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne with 2 shortened floors.
Swatch Art Clock Tower
1997 – Panton receives a commission to design the in London.
Erco offices
1998 – , the last exhibition to be designed by Panton, opens at the Trapholt Museum in Kolding on 17 September 1998.
Exhibition Light and Colour
Kom-igen Guest House
and restaurant in Trondheim, Norway
Astoria Hotel
Private House at Binningen
Hamburg
Gruner & Jahr Publishing House
Pantorama
Colour Spaces
Kolding, DK
Exhibition Light and Colour at the Trapholt Museum
(Arhus)
Varna Restaurant
University Hospital in Basel
The Circus Building
Erco Offices
Exhibition Light and Colour
(1963, 1968, 1981, 1986)
International Design Award
Rosenthal Studio Prize (Germany, 1966)
Poul Henningsen Prize (Denmark, 1967)
Eurodomus 2 (Italy, 1968)
Medal of the Austrian Building Centre (Austria, 1968)
Prize of Honour: 4th Austrian Furniture Exhibition (Austria, 1969)
(Germany, 1972, 1986)
Gute Form Prize
Møbelprisen, special exhibition Pantorama is presented at the international Swiss Furniture Fair in Basle (Denmark, 1978)
Deutsche Auswahl (German Selection) five times, (Germany, 1981–1984)
Sadolin Farve Prize (Denmark, 1986)
Dansk Designgråd Årspris prize (Denmark, 1991)
(1971, 1972, 1992)
IF Prize
Norway's Design Prize (1992)
(1998)
Bo Bedre Prisen
(1998)
Order of the Dannebrog
Vitra Design Museum dedicates Retrospektive (2000)
Weil am Rhein, D, honors Verner Panton with own street name: Verner-Panton-Weg (2012)
Danish design
. Verner Panton. 19 January 2021.
"Biography"
. Disavare. 2014.
"Verner Panton: Visiona 1970"
Guimapang, Katherine (3 January 2019). . Archinect News.
"Through the eyes of Verner Panton; a master of color through contemporary expression"
Martin, Hannah (3 June 2018). . Architectural Digest.
"The Story Behind Verner Panton's Iconic Chair"
Harrison, David (2020). A Century of Colour in Design: 250 Innovative Objects and the Stories Behind Them. . ISBN 9781760760533.
Thames & Hudson
Lytken, Malene (2019). Danske lamper – 1920 til nu (in Danish). Strandberg Publishing. 9788793604667.
ISBN
Engholm, Ida; Michelsen, Anders (2017). Panton: Environments, colours, systems, patterns. Strandberg Publishing. 9788793604063.
ISBN
Schulze, Sabine; Grätz, Ina, eds. (2012). Verner Panton: Die Spiegel-Kantine (in German). : Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. ISBN 9783775733212.
Hamburg
Bernsen, Jens (2003). Verner Panton: Rummet, tiden, stoffet (in Danish). Dansk Design Center. 9788790904357.
ISBN
von Vegesack, Alexander; Remmele, Matthias (2000). . Vitra Design Museum. ISBN 3931936244 – via Internet Archive.
Verner Panton: The Collected Works
Hvidberg-Hansen, Gertrud; Hvidberg-Hansen, Poul (1998). (in Danish). Trapholt – via Internet Archive.
Verner Panton: Lyset og Farven
Enevoldsen, Birgit; Enevoldsen, Christian (1958). Brugskunst: Moebler, Textiler, Lamper (in Danish). Arkitektens Forlag.