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Stolica Heart Cone se danas može naći i u bijeloj, crnoj, žutoj, ljubičastoji zelenoj boji / Heart Cone chair can be found also in white, black, yellow, purple and green colourssign history as Heart Cone Chair, is still current and quiterecognizable. Its back support is comprised of two wingsthat resemble Mickey Mouse’s ears, and it is manufacturedby famous company Vitra. Chairs Cone and HeartCone, with their courageous, screaming colours and dramaticshapes, have introduced pop-art and contributedto the general trend of challenging and questioning establishedand conventional forms of social interaction.The very first Cone Chair, covered in red fabric, was designedfor restaurant Komi-Gen and was produced in verylimited edition. Its structure consisted of a metal pieceshaped like a cone, which rotated on two pieces thatcreated a cross-like base. Panton used this chair to turnconventional wisdom completely upside down by creatingan innovative, futuristic effect. There is a story aboutthe time the very first red Cone Chair was displayed inthe window of a New York store, and the police actuallyhad to remove it because its presence and unusualappearance caused chaos in the traffic. In the late1950s, Verner Panton broke through all the barriers in fur-112niture design on his way to become the most influentialrepresentative of the new avant-garde style that wouldrule the following decade. He managed to shake up, ifnot completely demolish, the preconceived ideas aboutfurniture construction and a modern man’s surroundingambience.Experimenting with PlasticVerner Panton is the founding father of the fluid and futuristicdesigner style that ruled the 1960s and brought popaesthetics into the processes of designing furniture andinteriors. His main preoccupation was experimenting withplastic and other new, artificial materials with the purposeof creating bright-coloured furniture with geometric popartforms. Panton’s life story begins in a small Danish villagewhere he was born. Although the legend says that henever showed significant artistic tendencies, he moves toa big city for educational purposes, but he interrupts thatto join the resistance movement during World War II. Afterthe war, he enters architecture studies at the Royal