BACKROUND

50s

by BiKILL on 21st August 2009

Rock’n'Roll and Boogie Woogie give their own megaphone to the youth in the 50s. Hairstyles with a Flat, a forwards piled up hair quiff, and a fashion with petticoats, nylons, high heels, shepherd’s check pattern and Vichy-quares underline the attitude to life.

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60s

by BiKILL on 21st August 2009

People conquer the universe, while at home on earth a really bad mood rules. The 60s are the decade of big problems and changes at the same time.

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70s

by BiKILL on 21st August 2009

Colourful, more colourful, Flower Power. In the era of the 70s there seem to be no borders any more – except of the own, of course. And even these can be overcome, in the meantime, with psychedelic aid.

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80s

by BiKILL on 21st August 2009

With A Little Peace singer Nicole takes the biscuit of the time and wins the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982. Citizen groups and great demonstrations mushroom up, while the Greens – quite legally – enter in the Bundestag.

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90s

by BiKILL on 21st August 2009

While the reunion is celebrated in Germany, Iraqi troops march in in Kuweit 1990. A military alliance by 34 countries with the USA at the head form up and attack in January of the subsequent year Saddam Hussein and his troops. The Second Gulf War has begun.

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History

by BiKILL on 29th October 2009

Verner Panton

Design always reflects the time in which it was originated. Expressed differently: Draughts can be better understood, one knows about the historical backgrounds and social moods. For a better understanding of the era Verner Panton we have lighted up the decades of his creating:

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PANTOGRAPHY

by BiKILL on 3rd August 2009

Verner Panton

Projects

90s

1998

  • exhibition Light and Colour, Kolding/Denmark
  • floor lamp Panto Beam
  • slope light Hanging Lamp

1997

  • creation Erco branch, London/Great Britain

1996

  • installation Farbräume

1995

  • seat system Pantoflex/PantoGlide
  • seat system Pantoflex/PantoMove

1994

  • seat system Pantoflex
  • seat system Pantoflex/PantoSwing
  • 1993/94 chair Vilbert

1991

  • lighting objects Leuchtkörper

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