Born in 1926 on Funen
The famous designer and architect Verner Panton began his career in the North Funen. Born in 1926 to innkeeper parents in Gamtofte, Assens, a tiny village on the island of Fünen, he longed to become a artist, but he had little talent for painting or drawing. Despite this, he won a place at the technical college in Odense, the largest town on the island. He studied and completed his studies in Odense, and afterwards enrolling at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen as an architecture student. He established his own design office in 1955 and is credited with the design of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair - the Stacking chair designed in 1960.
The Cone Chair
Kom Igen Inn
The Cone was originally designed for his parents’ new restaurant. The Cone Chair is a thinly padded conical metal shell placed point-down on a cross-shaped metal base.
His parents owned an inn Come Again by Langesø and mid-50s accounted Verner Panton expansion of the inn and designed the Cone. A Danish businessman, Percy von Halling-Koch, spotted it at the opening and offered to put it into production for Panton. When it was photographed for Mobilia, the Danish design magazine, in 1961, Panton draped naked shop mannequins and models on the chairs, which caused a minor scandal. The Cone Chair even attracted controversy in New York, after the police ordered that it be removed from a shop window where large crowds had gathered to see it.
His parents owned an inn Come Again by Langesø and mid-50s accounted Verner Panton expansion of the inn and designed the Cone. A Danish businessman, Percy von Halling-Koch, spotted it at the opening and offered to put it into production for Panton. When it was photographed for Mobilia, the Danish design magazine, in 1961, Panton draped naked shop mannequins and models on the chairs, which caused a minor scandal. The Cone Chair even attracted controversy in New York, after the police ordered that it be removed from a shop window where large crowds had gathered to see it.
Gallery Kom Igen in Bogense
The famous designer and architect Verner Panton has his own gallery at North Funen - Nordfyn.
You can visit the gallery Come Again in Østergade in Bogense. Here are gathered many of Verner Panton works and you can get an insight into his connection with Nordfyn and Odense. The gallery in Bogense will help to pay tribute to the late architect and designer who is behind the success as Flower pot, The Cone Chair and Tivoli Chair. The gallery has intrance from the courtyards of the old merchant house – den Gamle Købmandsgård.
You can visit the gallery Come Again in Østergade in Bogense. Here are gathered many of Verner Panton works and you can get an insight into his connection with Nordfyn and Odense. The gallery in Bogense will help to pay tribute to the late architect and designer who is behind the success as Flower pot, The Cone Chair and Tivoli Chair. The gallery has intrance from the courtyards of the old merchant house – den Gamle Købmandsgård.
You will find the gallery at: Den Gamle Købmandsgård, Østergade 19, 5400 Bogense.
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