Known for his psychedelic colours and designs from the 1960s. Panton started as an assistant to Arne Jacobsen between 1950 and 1953 where Panton was responsible for the first colour  scheme for Jacobsen's Ant chair. After opening his own designer studio in 1955, Panton created everything from inflatable furniture, carpets and lamps to the radical Cone wire chair. In the early 1960s, Panton moved to Basel, Switzerland, and the world suddenly learned to appreciate his colour vision, new materials and soft wall surfaces. His most well known chair, simply called the Panton Chair, went into production in 1967 and i now reissued by Vitra in a new, low cost plastic version. His Panthella lamp for Louis Poulsen is also in production. Panton worked intensely up until his death in 1998 and some of his last designs have only recently been launched.