Verner Panton, the pop rebel of Danish design

Verner Panton (1926-1998) is the Dane who refused to be Scandinavian. A pupil of Arne Jacobsen, he slammed the door on the Danish school to settle in Switzerland and imagine a design that had nothing to do with wood, teak and silence: saturated colours, glossy plastic, psychedelic shapes. The Panton Chair (1959), the world's first chair produced from a single piece of moulded plastic, became the absolute emblem of pop design. Still edited by Vitra, it has entered every museum collection.

The Panton Chair, in Vitra or Herman Miller edition, is now one of the most recognisable design chairs of the 20th century. Alongside, the Flowerpot lamp, Cone and Heart armchairs, and geometric textiles compose a total pop universe to find for lovers of 1960s design.