Verner Panton (1926-1998) was an inspirational and colourful personality. A unique person with a special sense of colours, shapes, light function and room.
Over the course of his career, Verner Panton (1926-1998) introduced a series of modern lamps with personalities unlike any of his Scandinavian contemporaries.
Verner Panton started by designing lamps for Louis Poulsen.
The first lamp to be put into production was the Topan lamp in 1959, followed by the Moon lamp in 1960. In 1964 Panton contacted the lighting manufacturer J. Lüber AG in Switzerland about a lamp which he had designed that consisted of hundreds of small reflective discs.
Verner Panton undertook numerous interior design projects, including several for the German chemicals group Bayer.
Panton initiated the dialogue with Bayer in connection with the development of the Panton Chair.
Subsequently, the company asked Panton to create a stand for them at the furniture fair in Cologne, Germany, in 1968.
The aim of the project was to promote the fabric ‘d r a l o n’.