Designer P Index

		VERNER PANTON Verner Panton trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and initially worked in Arne Jacobsen´s architectural practice. He established his own design office in 1955 and is credited with the design of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair - the Stacking chair designed in 1960. He was primarily concerned with the possibilities of using new materials and innovative forms such as the futuristic Cone chair - 1958 Wire Cone - 1960 S chair - 1966 to name a few

	JEAN PROUVE - FRANCE 1901 - 1984 designer and architect The metal furniture of Jean Prouvé was produced copiously in every studio and workshop. The style is set apart from the Bauhaus steel furniture of the time by his rejection of the steel tube technique. Prouvé had more faith in the durability and form of sheet metal, "bent, pressed, compressed then welded."

A Alan Perkins - Toronto Canada He is sometimes compared to Frank Lloyd Wright and Piet Mondrian as a 20th Century Icon Arthur Alan Perkins left his career in Architecture in 1968 in order to pursue a career in Viltreous Enamel medium. His drawings and paintings are executed through the fusion of glass to metals. The techniques are two to three thousand years old. Alan Perkins, well-respected enamellist and teacher, passed away on June 3 at the age of 90. A trained architect, he left that profession in 1968 to pursue a career in the Vitreous Enamel medium creating work that was exhibited internationally. A 1996 retrospective at CCGG drew upon thirty years of art activities. His drawings and paintings were executed through the fusion of glass and metals using techniques two to three thousand years old. But, heinfused these ancient techniques with a modern sensibility creating work that was contemporary, beautiful and timeless.

	Pierre Paulin (born in 1927 in Paris in France) is a French designer. It was student at the Camondo school. In 1953, success arrives with the Ideal Home Exhibition. The characteristic of the design of Paulin lies in materials used for the manufacture of the seats. Those are stuffed of foam and are equipped with coloured jersey. 1953: first exposure of pieces of furniture to the section “the Hearth of today” of the Ideal Home Exhibition. Paulin then finds his influences in Scandinavian furniture and the American productions of Charles Eames and Florence Knoll 1954: Thonet-France starts to publish the pieces of furniture of Pierre Paulin 1958: The publisher of Artifort pieces of furniture, based in Maastricht, decides to direct it towards the contemporary piece of furniture and gathers a team of creators among whom Pierre Paulin