This fabric “Geometri 1” from 1963 showed up today. The danish company Unika Væv printed a o lot of this fabric during the 60:ies. They were printed in several colours and similar patterns. The first original patterns were designed in 1960 for the Hotel Astoria in Trondheim, Norway. The first patterns were a little bit bigger than […]
“CIRCUM” printed by the Pausa factory in Mössingen, Germany. Verner did this black and white test print in 1978. “KONSTRUKTION” printed in 1978 by the Pausa factory in Mössingen, Germany. BIENENWABEN – A prototype velour fabric. Probably a fabric for refurnishing furnitures. A medium WAVE fabric in aubergine velour. […]
Here you see one of my new projects! Verner designed the PANTONAEF toy system in 1975. He made a “prototye animal” in chrome – The rabbit. Also some smaller sculptures was made. Besides that, I have seen some chromed plates in old pictures from his walls in the Binningen villa. I have probably most of […]
Some weeks ago, I was contacted by a danish lady. Her mother was a friend of Verner Panton in the 60:ies and 70:ies. They lived next to the Varna restaurant in Århus, Denmark. Besides spending many dinners at the Varna restaurant, Verner gave her mother a present. He gave her these multicoloured curtains and made […]
I have now opened a new page here at PANTONWORLD. Under “MORE” you will now be able to see objects from the “EUROPA GRAND HOTEL” in Lugano, Switzerland. The actual place is now gone but I have some pieces from the place to show you: https://www.pantonworld.com/europa-grand-hotel/ More pieces from the hotel will be putted there […]
The ceiling plate is now up. If I place this gigantic formation of lamps in the red room permanent, the ceiling plate will be red but so far I just need a place to start hanging all the 33 lamps. I will clean all parts and also put black fabric cords so the can hang […]
I am about to upgrade the website with the possibility to have bigger pictures with better resolution and a better layout for displaying the site at Ipads, Iphones or other smartphones. In the meantime, the site could look a little bit weird. I am not a web programmer so have patience…
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Today I got an unexpected gift. Some magazines and newspaper articels about Panton and two wall tiles from the Hotel Europa in Lugano, Switzerland. Strange, but the headline for the newspaper was almost Pantonworld… The hotel had rooms in either red, green or blue with Pantons fabrics in those colours. The pattern was Creis / […]