Some new pictures of the prototype for the Chair C2 – also called “Banana Chair” from 1959. The chair still have the original violet Bolivia fabric in very good condition. Not many chair was made with this round steel plate. The X-shaped foot was the one that went into serial production.
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GEOMETRI FABRIC
This early “Geometri V” fabric arrived today. It is made by Unika Vaev in 1960.
NEXT ROOM
The next room to fix… The plan is to cover the five meter wide wall with enamel panels but I need one more panel to get 24 panels (3 x 8 panels together). 8 panels in a raw is just perfect – It is about 1 cm left on each side. I moved everything out […]
MOBILIA MAGAZINES
17 old Mobilia magazines with Verner Panton´s interior showed up today.
TWIN CHAIR
The world’s best furniture for videogames when you are twins, the 3D-carpet from 1969. Here you see some more pictures from the newly painted aubergine and red room at Pantonworld.
RED ROOM – SOON
Everything is now prepared to start painting the little kitchen in our new house. It will be red and I guess the paint needs about 6 layers to cover. Those strong colours are more transparant than the usual “light coloured” paint so it is a lot of work with it. I will use the red […]
WHITE ROOM
Some new pictures from the new house. The biggest room on the top floor will be white for now. We plan to have the ground floor in stronger colours.
NEW BOBINETTE CURTAINS
These Bobinette Geometri curtains from 1960 are amongst my favorite Panton curtains. They are not easy to find and are often expensive if they come up. I try to find enough of them to cover a 950 cm long window in the new house. This pair have a width of 320 cm together and with […]
ASTORIA CONE STOOL
Here comes a new important piece for the Pantonworld collection. This is the pianist´s Cone Stool at Hotel Restaurant Astoria 1960. It is one of the first versions of the stool with a small “keyhole” under the seat. You see the pianist sitting and playing on this chair in one of the pictures above. It […]
OPTIK CARPET
A new Verner Panton carpet in the Pantoworld collection. Here comes a really rare “Optik Carpet” from 1969. I have only seen it once in a picture from Verner Panton´s home around 1971. The measurements are 137 x 137 cm and I beleive Unika Vaev was the manufacturer due to the similar technique of these […]