Verner Panton Barboy by Verpan

Verpan is - much like Verner Panton himself - a product of the Danish design tradition, which has put Denmark on the world map for functional, modern and unique design. 

The story of Verpan began in 2003, when the first production of Verner Panton lighting was initiated. In 2010 a furniture range was added. Today, Verpan offers a carefully curated selection of Verner Panton’s timeless designs. The range includes iconic furniture and lighting pieces that offer extraordinary user experiences and facilitate new ways of living, working and interacting.

Verpan is proud to carry on the legacy of Verner Panton as an official licensee of Verner Panton Design AG - the exclusive owner of all Verner Panton designs.

Verner Panton, born 1926 in Gamtofte, Denmark, studied at Odense Technical College before enrolling at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen as an architecture student.

He worked from 1950-52 in the architectural firm of Arne Jacobsen, and founded an independent studio for architecture and design in 1955. His furniture designs for the firm Plus-linje attracted attention with their geometric forms. In the following years Panton created numerous designs for seating furniture and lighting.

His passion for bright colours and geometric patterns manifested itself in an extensive range of textile designs. By fusing the elements of a room - floor, walls, ceiling, furnishings, lighting, textiles, wall panels made of enamel or plastic - into a unified synthesis of art, Panton's interior installations have attained legendary status. The most famous examples are the "Visiona" ship installations for the Cologne Furniture Fair (1968 and 1970), the Spiegel publishing headquarters in Hamburg (1969) and the Varna restaurant in Aarhus (1970).

Panton's collaboration with Vitra began in the early 1960s, when the firm decided to develop what became his best-known design, the Panton Chair, which was introduced in 1967. This was also the first independently developed product by Vitra.

Verner Panton died in 1998 in Copenhagen. Vitra's re-edition of designs by Panton, as well as the retrospective of his work mounted by the Vitra Design Museum in 2000, bear witness to the special relationship between Vitra and Verner Panton.