Verner Panton

Verner panton was a master of futuristic style in the 1960's that introduced Pop design to furniture and interiors. During his career, he concurred a lot of ground breaking designs in a variety of materials, especially plastics. Panton started his own style when he produced the cone chair in 1959. From this chair he knew what was his pathway. Panton’s most well-known furniture models are still in production such as the cone and the Panton chair.

This cone chair was the first well known from Panton. This chair has a cone shape standing on its tip and a stainless steel base. After some experimental shapes a similar chair to it is the heart cone chair. It still have the cone effect and the tip base but since it is a heart shape it has two wings on the back. They use describe them as Mickey Mouse Ears. These chairs can get a lot of attention with their design is not something you see everyday with its shape. In my opinion the cone shape may be very comfortable to sit and rest whether the heart shape since the centre is low there is not a lot of room for your back and rest it, one cannot lay on one of the wings.

 

Heart cone chair

                                   Cone chair

The most famous chair of Panton is the Panton chair itself. This was build because designers wanted a different form of a chair from a normal back support and four legs. Panton experimented with various materials, especially with acrylic and fiberglass-reinforced plastic as well as rigid foam. Verner Panton together with other designers that were interested in this product came to the last and best material with Luran-S, a plastic reinforced without fiberglass. In my opinion this is a breakthrough for that time to design a chair like this no one would ever imagine of a such beauty. It is still a breath taking product in the contemporary design.

Panton chair

Another seating with a different solution is the Amoebe chair. It is more of a low chair that can be used for a lounge area. This chair has a greater comfort thanks to its flexible backrest shell it was an amazing project for having a new idea to a chair where one can simply lay down and not falling over. For me this chair is amazing for its simplicity and again it is a one-shape chair. I think if it would be a bit higher it could be better because one can simply get tired with his feet bended to much.

Amoebe chair

Panton designed a lot of work and almost all of them were a success it might be because almost of his designs have a strange, yet eye catching look. I admire Panton work, he only looked to the future and designed with precision and for a better and fun life.

Reference: Verner Panton / Design Museum Collection (Year N/A) Design Museum [Online] Available from: http://designmuseum.org/design/verner-panton [Accessed: 7th January 2014]

: Arnoldschea, (Year N/A), Century of Design. 

Pop Design

Pop Design is all about fun, new materials, experimentation with plastics and new technologies. There is a change, the more the product is fun, the more it is appealing. This led to Radical design in the 1970’s.

A pop designer Eero Aarnio designed the Ball chair. This chair was done by using one of the simplest geometric form, the ball. Cutting of a part of it and fixing it at one point. With this cut he came out with remarkable results. It has a cozy and calm atmosphere, protecting outside noises and giving a private space for relaxing time or read a book. It also has a function aspect, it turns around on its own axis from the base. In my outlook this is a very beautiful chair with a simple and clean design that makes you feel comfortable and in private. This chair it is only used for reading or making a phone call. I cannot imagine someone watching a movie in it or worse use it as a dining chair. It is more of a decorative product.

Ball Chair

The Panton chair is in a form of an S shape. One of the first plastic chair ever created, by Verner Panton, this also gives a similar look to the Selene chair. Except this chair has a very beautiful shape and different from the original chairs. Panton produced a cold-pressed model using polyester strengthened with fibreglass. For the first time, an entire chair had been designed in one piece, without any legs. It became known as a free-swinger. In my opinion it is an amazing chair from top to bottom with the design, the colours and the material used. It is very attractive chair for any occasion it can be also put anywhere, just choose the right colour to match the room.

Panton chair

Another product of Verner Panton is this furniture called the Pantower or else the Living Tower. Panton always had a way for fashion and interiors. The furniture can be divided into four seats of varying heights, and opens up a multitude of new seating. Living Tower is a cuboid shape with natural curves that the user can benefit for squatting, climbing, crouching, or lying down. In my opinion it was a great design in those days but for today it looks more for kids to climb and play on it. It does not look very comfortable to stay on it for a long time. Also I doubt it how stable it is for people to climb or change positions.

Pantower

In my opinion Pop design was a very interesting and fun era, where one could design anything he wanted by simply draw flowing lines on a drawing book and he will have a fun design to build. It was not the era of serious and laws of design.

Bibliography: Pantower - Panton - Vitra Design Museum, ( Year N/A) Living Tower Verner Panton, [Online] Available from: http://www.design-museum.de/en/collection/100-masterpieces/detailseiten/pantower-panton.html [Accessed: 6th January 2014]

                     : The Ball Chair - The Only Original by Adelta (Year N/A) Adelta, [Online] Available from: http://www.eero-aarnio.com/8 [Accessed: 6th January 2014]