Verner Panton: the joyful radical

Danish modernism is a byword for restraint — pale wood, quiet forms, good taste. Verner Panton spent his career proving it could also be loud, plastic and gloriously happy.

Against good taste

Trained under Arne Jacobsen, Panton broke away to design single-form chairs, psychedelic total interiors, and lamps like small planets. Where his peers whispered, he sang in colour.

Design should be fun, or why do it?

Lamps like planets

The VP Globe hangs like an acrylic world with reflectors inside; Fun strings mother-of-pearl discs into shimmering veils; Moon pleats light into a soft sphere. Each is geometry turned into joy.

Original, made again

Verpan holds the rights and makes these editions in Denmark, to Panton's original drawings — which matters, because few designs are copied as often as his. Through Objena, the original article arrives in Australia, colour and all.