Happy Birthday Verner Panton! On 13 February 2011 the designer and architect would have been turned 85. We want to celebrate this event with all lovers of fancy interior design.
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The current issue of the ARCHITEKTUR & WOHNEN, short A&W, felt into my hands. While paging through I think: Wow, how present Verner Panton with his draughts is – directly or indirectly – till today.
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In the context of the Cologne furniture fair in 1970 Bayer in cooperation with the Danish designer Verner Panton presented Visiona 2, an almost breathtaking interior staging wallowing in colors and forms. On the occasion of the exhibition’s 40th anniversary we took another look at this much discussed concept.
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Canteens in the test media: Everything so beautifully colorful here – Harald Fidler intervened in any case, the visually legendary Spiegel canteen.
It was not the first time, but now it’s urgent to write about it: even stand the two great pie corners, the spy of the Ericusspitze, albeit after first appearances with quite dinky windows.
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Niklas Maupoix is a real fan of Verner Panton’s ideas in interior design. The Swede from Gothenburg furnished his whole home in Verner Panton style. We were able to look behind his curtains straight into his Panton world.
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The German reunification will mark this day for the 20th time. Opportunity for us to deal even with the recent furniture and interior design trends from the East and West. While long-barreled believes that the East in terms of design always drew the short straw, the documents appear in the seventies on both sides surprisingly congruent.
Plastic or plaste, such as the East called it, experienced a boom, finding their way in each room on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Real cult furniture the designers created at that time, which are also sold like hot cakes today. In West-Germany for example the design of the panton chair by Danish designer Verner Panton was a milestone in the furnishing history. And in the socialist living rooms, a plastic furniture was iconic as well. The originally intended for use in the garden created Garden Egg chair by Peter Chyczy advance to the position of a favorite object.
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We noticed that ZAHA HADID uses coloured Panton Chairs as office chairs at their workplaces in London. Asked for the intension the architekt answered:
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