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Verner Panton Road Show

posted on Feb 27 2009

• by Tine Castelein

Chairman Panton

It has been exactly 50 years since the Danish designer Verner Panton created his Classic Chair, the chair made from one piece of moulded plastic, which was set to be come a Sixties-icon. Anniversaries need to be celebrated, so en Vitra has set up a proper Verner Panton Road Show, which of course also stops in Ghent.

Verner Panton, considered to be the most influential Danish furniture and interior designers of the 20th century. Panton believed that a set of furniture should interact within itself to create a kind of chair landscape, which refuses to be just functional.

On the programme: the Panton Chair, the Wire Cone Chair, the Panton Junior, the Amoebe Highback, the Cone Table, the Heart Cone Chair, and much more. Additional highlights include the reissue of the C1 (1959), the very first ‘seating bowl’, which has not lost any of its modernist character half a century after it was created. And, last but not least, the controversial Living Tower (1969), Panton’s monumental furniture sculpture.

End date

Until March 21st at Vitrapoint Ghent.