Vitra Verner Panton

Verner Panton was one of the most radical and visionary designers of the twentieth century. Born in Gamtofte, Denmark in 1926, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen before working in the studio of Arne Jacobsen — an experience that sharpened his formal instincts before he broke decisively from convention.

From his independent studio in Switzerland, Panton pursued a design language entirely his own: bold geometry, saturated colour, and a belief that furniture, lighting, textiles and space should function as a unified whole. His interior installations — most famously the Visiona II environment staged aboard an exhibition ship at the 1970 Cologne Furniture Fair — remain among the most ambitious and influential interiors ever conceived.

‘The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives housed in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.’ — Verner Panton

Pieces from the collection include the Vitra Panton Chair, the Vitra Cone Chair, the Vitra Heart Cone Chair, the Vitra Amoebe Lounge Chair, the Vitra Amoebe Highback Lounge Chair, and the Vitra Visiona Stool.

All pieces are produced by Vitra, to the exacting standards of the originals.