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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 […]

COPENHAGEN MODERNISM SHOW 2003

My norweigian friend Thomas founded another picture from the Copenhagen Modernism show, this time from 2003. This is the fair stand for the shop “gagarin” in Stuttgart. The flowers are the price for best fair stand and he also won a free space the next year. Unfortunatelly the fair did not continue the year after. […]

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. […]

A SMALL PANTOUR

Today I picked up a very rare low Cone Table from Plus Linje. It has a three-crossed foot instead of a four-crossed foot so therefor you could see it was made in 1959. After 1960, for example to the Astoria restaurant, the tables had a four-crossed foot. Someone has painted the plate white instead of […]

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 […]