Marianne Panton (left on the picture) will be in Copenhagen today Saturday, 1:st of September from 1.00-4:00 PM for the opening of the Verpan Shop in Illums Bolighus in Copenhagen, Denmark. Panton fans who buy a recent book about the design will be able to have it signed by Marianne Panton. This picture is from […]
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PANTONOVA CHAISE LONGUE FOR SALE
A friend of me in Denmark has this great chair for sale. It is an original VERNER PANTON chaise longue made for FRITZ HANSEN in the early 70:ies. Also the fabric is original MIRALASTIC from the 70:ies. If you are interested in it, please let me know and I will help you further. I have […]
HALLELUJAH
The year is 1978 in a hotel in Stockholm. The swedish nowerdays very well known band, “Vikingarna” is ready for an international career. Their now famous singer Christer Sjögren (Far to the right in the picture, next to the “maybe to much to drink- guy”) is their new lead singer and this is his first […]
TWO NEW PICTURES
I will soon try to update some pictures from my rooms but that is not easy. Since we have a new born boy plus the 2 year old twins, our time is not really there. Also I have repainted the exterior of the house and almost finished the reparation of the kitchen. Then my usual […]
THE CONE TABLE IS READY
After many hours of work I have now managed to get all the white paint from the table. This early table from Plus Linje was made 1959/60. After that, these tables had four legs in the crossfoot instead of three.
RESTAURANT ASTORIA WAITRESS
Thomas in Norway has founded another picture from his exhibition “A sence of darkness – Verner Pantons Astoria restaurant”. “Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum” in Trondheim had the exhibition in 2002. This picture shows the the original dresses in orange cotton that the waitresses were using at the restaurant in Trondheim 1959/60. The dress is probably designed by […]
EARLY CONE TABLE FROM PLUS LINJE
Here comes some better pictures from the latest trip. First you can see a low Cone table from 1959/60. There is also a note under it that says ” Dranella – Stand C1 – 005 – Bella Center” The first edition of these table had a three crossed foot instead of four. So I guess […]
PROTOTYPE GEOMETRI 1 FABRIC FROM STEENS
Here is a small sample of the fabric that originally were printed for the Astoria restaurant project 1959/60. These colours were not used in the norweigian restaurant but this very fabric was used for a barber shop in Copenhagen 1963 – Steens! This handprinted fabric were produced in the attic at Sølvgade in Copenhagen. Unika […]
EXPEDIT PANTONOVA SOFA MODULES
Here we have a restauration project… These two seating modules of the Pantonova sofa needs to be cleaned and fixed. They booth had a purple fabric over the old original fabric in orange Miralastic. Well almost… There were only one module that had the original fabric under. I saw it first when I came home. […]
SMALL FLOWERPOT LAMP IN TURQUOISE
And finally a small lamp that also came from the small “Pantour” yesterday – A small Flowerpot lamp in turquoise.
COPENHAGEN MODERNISM 2002
A bit strange but today I got this picture from my norweigian friend Thomas. The picture was taken 10 years ago at the “Copenhagen Modernism 2002”. Not so strange with that but the purple Storz & Palmer set on the picture now stands in my basement.
AUBERGINE ROOM IN 360 DEGREES
I made a little test with the application “360 PANORAMA” on my iPhone wich helps you taking pictures with 360 degrees of angle. The phone takes a lot of pictures and then put them together automatically. Probably, I will get better in this soon but here is the first test. It was really cool when […]