Verner Panton is the most colourful designer of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for architects and designers in the fields of textiles, furniture and interior décor.
After studying architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, he worked at Arne Jacobsen’s design studio for two years.
In 1955, Verner Panton launched his first chair, the Tivoli chair, designed for a restaurant in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens for use outdoors and indoors.
In 1958, he furnished his father’s Funen inn using a sensational combination of colours and textiles. In subsequent years, Verner Panton created a number of world-renowned total installations and furnishing projects for which he designed furniture, textiles and lamps.
Verner Panton frequently experimented with new materials and shapes, and many of his renowned designs were achieved in collaboration with Vitra of Switzerland. He maintained his ties with Denmark over the years, however, and in 1998, Peter J. Lassen relaunched Verner Panton’s wire shelving system for Montana. In 2003, the Tivoli chair was put back into production by Joakim Lassen, and the range was enlarged in 2004 to include a bar and lounge version, based on Verner Panton’s ideas and concepts.
In 2010 a VP Kitchen bar version and a VP Kids were introduced at the fair in Milan.
See the Tivoli chair