Panton Furniture
He worked from 1950 52 in the architectural firm of arne jacobsen and founded an independent studio for architecture and design in 1955.
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Considered the enfant terrible of his generation panton embraced what it meant to be a danish designer while redefining the function of furniture. In his contribution to the visiona exhibition panton mostly dispensed with traditional single items of furniture and a conventional function oriented separation of space. 8 verner panton coming of age in a post war economy panton was familiar with the habits and needs of the ordinary person.
Danish furniture and lighting design at its very best. Verner panton born 1926 in gamtofte denmark studied at odense technical college before enrolling at the royal danish academy of fine arts in copenhagen as an architecture student. He developed fantastical futuristic forms and embraced bright colors and new materials such as plastic fabric covered polyurethane foam and steel wire framing.
Verner panton introduced the word groovy or at least its danish equivalent into the scandinavian modern design lexicon.