Made of upholstered sheet metal and with a conical base in place of legs, the design shocked visitors to a Copenhagen furniture fair. His iconoclastic aesthetic was announced with his 1958 Cone chair, modified a year later as the Heart Cone chair. Panton opened his own design office in 1955, issuing tubular steel chairs with woven seating. Henningsen taught a scientific approach to design Jacobsen was forever researching new materials and Wegner, the leader in modern furniture design using traditional woodworking and joinery, encouraged experimental form. After graduating, in 1951, Panton worked in the architectural office of Arne Jacobsen, and he became a close friend of Hans Wegner's. This radical departure from classic Danish modernism, however, actually stemmed from his training under the greats of that design style.īorn on the largely rural Danish island of Funen, Panton studied architecture and engineering at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where the lighting designer Poul Henningsen was one of his teachers. And Panton’s ebullient Pop art sensibility made him an international design star of the 1960s and ’70s. 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.
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