Verner Panton is considered to be one of Denmark’s most influential 20th-century furniture and interior designers. During his career, he created innovative and futuristic designs in a variety of available materials, especially plastics finished in vibrant colors. His style was very "1960s" but regained popularity at the end of the 20th century; and Panton’s most well-known furniture models are still in production now. Panton trained as architectural engineer in Odense, and then studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen.
The first two years of his career - 1950-1952 - he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another famous Danish architect and furniture designer, but Panton turned out to be an "enfant terrible" and he started his own design office in 1955. Near the end of the 1950s, his chair designs became more and more unconventional, with no legs or discernible back. In 1960, Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-molded plastic chair - the Stacking chair or S chair, which would become his most famous and mass-produced design. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Verner Panton experimented with designing entire environments: radical and psychedelic interiors that were an ensemble of his curved furniture, wall upholstering, textiles and lighting. He is best known for the design of a German boat interior, now a famous museum. He is also known for a hotel in Europe that utilized circular patterns and cylindrical furniture.
