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Cone / Kornet stolica / Cone chairVerner PantonAcademy of Arts in Copenhagen. After he finished hisformal education, he accepts a job with Arne Jacobsen,the legendary figure of Danish architecture. Although heeventually claimed that he learned the most from Arne,there doesn’t appear to be much in common betweenJacobsen’s soft elegance and Verner Panton’s “pop design”.However, it was Jacobsen’s obsessive research ofcoming up with ways to use new materials and technologiesthat inspired Panton.After two years with Jacobsen (and it was always rumouredthat he was one of the worst employees in that architectonicoffice because he was already working on hisown projects), he embarked on that famous journey in hismobile atelier as a freelance designer. He had previouslyopened his own designer studio in 1955, which producedchairs Bachelor and Tivoli, but it wasn’t until Cone Chair in1958/1959 that Panton truly earned the reputation of beinga designer with a very “different” style. Over the nextseveral years, Verner Panton’s designer series were inspiredwith his philosophy that “furniture elements shouldinteract between each other in order to create a “landscape-type”environment that wants to be much morethan merely functional”. In the late sixties and early seventies,Panton developed the “total environment” concept,which stood for designing the entire interior space,from floors and walls to the ceiling. Radical psychedelicinteriors were becoming spatial complexes for his roundedfurniture, wallpapers, textile and lighting. One of thefirst experiments of such manner occurred when Pantoncovered all surfaces of a room in hotel “Astoria” in Trondheimwith a sample that was inspired by op-art, andwas featuring different variations of the same colour.Colour and experiment, innovation and (certainly) theever-present provocation have defined Panton as a designer,but also as an architect. His projects for CardboardHouse and Plastic House in 1960 are still remembered. Heis also the creator of the very first chair that was completelymade of plastic.Verner Panton is considered one of the most influentialDanish designers of furniture and interiors. During the courseof his career, he created futuristic furniture from allkinds of materials, but plastic still remained his favouritematerial of choice. His style can be described as “verysixties”, but he also regained his popularity near the endof the last century. During the early nineties, Panton startedworking on the brand-new edition of his Cone Chair.The main changes were evident in the choice of materialand the shape of the chair’s base. The chair’s body wasmade of acrylic glass or leather, while the original cross-likebase got replaced by a round metal board or alittle leg made of five bended metal pipes. This changeof material resulted in a significant change in the chair’slook, as the body and the cone shape looked quite different.For example, two back-support wings on the HeartCone Chair were not as outspread as before. This chaircan be found in white, black, yellow, purple and greencolours.As far as Croatian stores go, the Heart Cone Chair canbe purchased at AAG Design Centre and TEHNO KLARAin Samobor for 13.000 kunas.113