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PANTON KITCHEN BY KVIK

The danish company KVIK has just released their new kitchen collection “VERNER PANTON BY KVIK”. KVIK sent me the pictures above where you can see the four different colours available. The pattern “GEOMETRI 1” is one of Verner Pantons most famous designs and it was originally designed for the ASTORIA HOTEL AND RESTAURANT in Trondheim, […]

THE WIRE EFFECT

I just remember Verner Pantons idea of the wire furniture. They were designed so you should see the people in them. When I see these chairs in front of the Astoria fabric (wich is quite intense to say the least) you can really see the seating “pop out”. I can imagine it would look totally […]

RARE PANTON PIECES FROM ASTORIA 1960

First we have this cool chair in zink wire with yellow cushions – the LOUNGE WIRE CONE CHAIR. This chair was used in the area “GOLDEN APPLE” at ASTORIA HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. This chair, the table you will see further down and all the fabrics has been in the home of a former staff member […]

RARE PANTON PIECES FROM ASTORIA 1960

First we have this cool chair in zink wire with yellow cushions – the LOUNGE WIRE CONE CHAIR. This chair was used in the area “GOLDEN APPLE” at ASTORIA HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. This chair, the table you will see further down and all the fabrics has been in the home of a former staff member […]

UNISOL FABRIC FROM UNIKA VÆV 1965

An early VERNER PANTON pattern called “UNISOL”. It is not very easy to find these early curtains since it has no signature. So not many people know what they have at home. Verner designed this pattern in 1965 for UNIKA VÆV, Denmark. I have a pair of these curtains but here you see the front […]

A LONG “PANTOUR” BACK IN TIME

This week has been very busy but I managed to make a long trip in Sweden last monday. Last year I was lucky to get the swedish interior designer Sten Hermanssons sketches for some of his interior designs with Verner Panton objects. I have about 70 sketches with Panton interior from him to go through […]