Verner Panton for Fritz Hansen

VERNER PANTON (Denmark, 1926 - 1998) for FRITZ HANSEN.
A pair of Easy Chairs, System 1-2-3.
Upholstery in buttoned brown leather, round wood legs.
Designed in 1973.
Produced by Fritz Hansen.
Measurements: 71 x 60 x 85 cm. 36 cm. (seat height).
With small repairs on leather.
Verner Panton was one of the most influential Danish industrial designers of the late 20th century. He introduced the pop aesthetic into Scandinavian furniture and he created a variety of innovative and futuristic designs during his career, especially constructed in plastic and brightly colored. Panton attended the Odense Technical School and then studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Between 1950 and 1952 he worked in the architectural studio of Arne Jacobsen. In 1955 he opened his own architecture and design studio. He became famous with his furniture based on geometric forms manufactured by the company Plus-linje. Panton's spatial compositions are renowned for fusing floors, walls and ceilings, as well as furniture, lamps, fabrics and enamel or plastic panels to form a spatial unity that is as seamless as it is indivisible. The Visiona halls at the Cologne Furniture Fair (1968 and 1970), the offices of the Spiegel publishing house (1969) and the Varna restaurant in Aarhus (1970) are some of the most outstanding examples. The collaboration between Panton and Vitra began in the early 1960s. With this company he develops his best-known design: the Panton chair, made from a single piece of injection molded plastic, introduced in 1967. He is currently represented at the DesignMuseum in London and the MoMA in New York, among many others.