THE FAMILY / Verner Panton

 

VERNER PANTON, (1926-1998), trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and initially worked at Arne Jacobsen´s architectural practice. He established his own design office in 1955. Panton is credited with the design of the very first single-form injection- moulded plastic chair: the Stacking Chair, designed in 1960. Some of Panton’s other renowned chair designs include the Heart Chair, and the Cone Chair, designed in 1958 and 1959, respectively.