Floor Lamp 'Panthella' by Verner Panton for Louis Poulsen

The Danish architect and designer Verner Panton (1926-1998) studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and then worked in the office of Arne Jacobsen. In 1955 he designed the Bachelor Chair for Fritz Hansen, before moving to Basel in 1963 and working with Vitra and Herman Miller; this led in 1967 to the Panton Chair, the first cantilever chair made from a single piece of plastic. Other important designs include the S-Chair (1965) for Thonet in bent plywood. With plastic furniture, artificial light and intense colour gradients, Panton shaped interior design in the 1960s and 1970s.