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.