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CHROMED PANTONAEF PLATE

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 […]

CURTAINS FROM VERNER PANTON HIMSELF

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 […]

EUROPA GRAND HOTEL

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 […]

PANTONWORLD IS UPGRADING

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…

UNEXPECTED GIFT

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 / […]