Verner Panton

He is a Danish designer and architect who was one of the most innovative of all 20th-century designers, exerting a lasting and far-reaching influence through his sculptural designs, some of them playfully futuristic, and the vividly colored works he designed.In 1955 Verner Panton opened a practice of his own in Copenhagen. In the years after, Panton stirred up quite a bit of controversy with his innovative architectural concepts, such as a prefab foldable house, Cardboard House, and a Plastic House. He was active from the 1950s as an interior decorator, exhibition designer, and all-round designer.Verner broke entirely with convention, designing rooms as landscapes in vibrant color tones, sometimes entirely in shades of red, as in the interior in 1958 of "Komigen Kro, a guest house in Langesø on the island of Funen. For this interior,  Panton also designed the "Cone" chair. In 1960 he turned it into the "Heart" chair, which also featured a cone bottom foot, and came up with other variations on the original "Cone" that were all made by Plus-Linje. The unusual way Verner Panton dealt with furnishings and other features of his interiors would become typical of the other interior appointments he designed. His carpet and wallpaper patterns, inspired by Op art, were almost always in vibrant colors. By 1955 Verner Panton had come up with a design for a swing chair made of a single piece of laminated wood, the "S" chair.