Posts Tagged ‘Wire Cone Chair’

WIRE LAMP

by BiKILL on 28th September 2009

WIRE LAMP in BROWN, 1972 Verner PANTON

Year: 1972

A year after Pantonova Verner Panton brought out the WIRE LAMP. Module furniture which seem to adapt themselves in every situation were the strength of Verner Panton. In this manner the WIRE LAMP fits excellently to the furniture of the Pantonova family, with the Wire Shelf leading the way.

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TÜTENSTUHL SERIE K

by BiKILL on 12th August 2009

Year: 1958/60

With the expression SERIES K – K for Kraemmerhusstole – Verner Panton meant several different pieces of furniture, partially with suitable (bar) stools and tables which were based – more or less – on the same construction.

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CONE TABLE

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

Year: 1958

As a low filing table for ashtray and drinks Verner Panton conceived the CONE TABLE. His round tabletop, his conical table leg and a three-armed cross base made the table the ideal companion of the Cone Chair, Verner Panton had created for Kom-Igen Inn, the restaurant of his father.

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CONE STOOL

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

Year: 1958

A restaurant not only needs club armchairs, it also asks for (bar) stools – at least if it was opened like the Kom-Igen Inn end of the 50s. Thus Verner Panton together with the Cone Chair sketched the CONE (BAR) STOOL.

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CONE CHAIR

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

CONE CHAIR, 1958 Verner PANTON

Year: 1958

For Kom-igen Inn, the restaurant of his father, in 1958 Verner Panton was in search of a club armchair which should unite geometrical forms and functionality. The CONE CHAIR does no only justice this claim, he also excels every expectation which one had to date to a club armchair.

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WIRE CONE CHAIR

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

WIRE CONE CHAIR, 1959 Verner PANTON

Year: 1959

The WIRE CONE CHAIR was the second chair of the Series K of designer Verner Panton. Formed from a mesh of steel wire, it has the same basic form as his cone-chair-relatives, the Cone Chair and the Heart Cone Chair.

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HEART CONE CHAIR

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

HEART CONE CHAIR, 1959 Verner PANTON

Year: 1959

HEART CONE CHAIR, Verner Panton named his piece of furniture, based on the Cone Chair, designed in the year before. The backrest reminds of a wing pair. Together with the cone, the base of the chair, the silhouette copies the form of a heart.

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PANTONOVA

by BiKILL on 5th August 2009

Year: 1971

Inspired from the Wire Cone Chair and the Wire Collection Verner Panton sketched PANTONOVA in 1971. The wire furniture series existed of wire sticks parallelly arranged to each other and left open to the sides. The deliberately elective, open creation demonstrated the pieces of furniture filigree and easily in spite of her massive construction method.

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BIOGRAPHY

by TAGWERC on 13th July 2009

Verner PANTON

Beginning and education

  • Verner Panton sees on the 13th of February, 1926 in Brahesborg-Gamtofte on the island Fünen in Denmark the light of the world. At the age of 18 years the Dane moves to Odense. There he joins the military for two years. Parallely in addition he visits the Technical School, also in Odense, from 1944 to 1947. Following Verner Panton studies architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen (in 1947-1951) and begins to occupy himself with colour psychologie. During the study Tove Kemp crosses his way. The stepdaughter of the architect and designer Poul Henningsen marries Panton in 1950. Nevertheless, the marriage fails after only one year. Their common son passes away early. What remains is the friendship to Poul Henningsen which remains up to his death in 1967 Panton’s mentor.
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