Verner Panton inspired Heart Cone Chair
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Verner Panton originally designed the Cone Chair for a restaurant in Denmark. It takes its shape from the classic geometric figure for which it is named. The padded shell forms the back and armrests and, together with the soft seat cushion, creates an exceptionally comfortable armchair, which is mounted on an elegant stainless steel swivel base.
Verner Panton also designed his own chair for the project: the Cone Chair. As its name suggests, the body of the chair takes the form of a cone. Standing on its tip, a semi-circular padded shell extends upwards to form the back and armrests, thereby creating a very comfortable armchair. Or to quote the allegory used by Panton’s friend Niels-Jørgen Kaiser in his obituary for Verner Panton in 1999, the Cone Chair is a ‘ballet dancer standing on her toes and easily turning pirouettes’. The entire body is covered in fabric – for Kom Igen, this was in the five different shades of red used for the interior design scheme. The Cone Chair is supported by a flat, slender four-star base made of brushed stainless steel. When later talking of the design, Verner Panton declared, ‘If we were to start from scratch … a structure like a cone is much simpler than the four-legged bistro chair standing over there.’ Few designers would probably agree with this statement, as the transition area between the tip of the cone and the base is subjected to extreme levels of strain, demanding extraordinary solidity as well as materials of exceptionally high quality.
Material description
- Body: GRP (glass fibre reinforced plastic laminate).
- Upholstery: lightly padded with polyurethane foam. Seat cushion.
- Base: stainless steel cruciform base, satin finish.
- Glides: plastic.
