RESTAURANT VARNA, AARHUS, DENMARK (1971) INTERIOR BY VERNER PANTON

Verner Panton grew up in a Denmark where, to his dismay, “most people spend their lives… in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours”. Panton became one of his country’s most famous designers by tackling that fear head-on – as this picture of his radical interior for a rural restaurant suggests. After being let loose on the building, a manor house in Jutland, Panton covered the reception desk with 112 lamps and smothered the dining room ceiling in a cloud of padded spheres. The image appears in a new book from Phaidon, a glossy testament to Panton’s colour-soaked vision. phaidon.com