SOME PANTON MEMORIES
Geometri 1 fabrics on the walls. Probably a fair in at the company Ahrend in Holland 1962/63. Dutch architects visiting MIRA-X in Hannover. Hannover. My friend with his cool tie! MIRA-X fair in Hannover.
Geometri 1 fabrics on the walls. Probably a fair in at the company Ahrend in Holland 1962/63. Dutch architects visiting MIRA-X in Hannover. Hannover. My friend with his cool tie! MIRA-X fair in Hannover.
Marianne and Verner Panton at the opening of Varna restaurant 1971. The restaurant. I guess the balls didn´t smell that good after some years of heavy smoking in there… You don´t see these thick velour dresses so often these days…
Velcome to a real MIRA-X party! (MIRA-X is the swiss company that made the biggest part of all Verner Panton fabrics). These pictures comes from a party 1985 in Hamburg. Where is that horse-dress now???
Yesterday, I picked up this super rare set of two chairs made by Storz and Palmer 1962. Very few pieces of these early Verner Panton chairs is known, especially the stool without back rest. According to Marianne Panton, (wich I spoke to about this chair) this is not a chaise longue in two parts […]
Here comes some pictures from a German fellow collector. He collects only furnitures. He just recently bought this purple armchair from the SOFT LINE SERIES made for the VISIONA 2 exhibition in Cologne. A really cool piece! (There is a SITTING WHEEL in the foreground).
The long multicloured “LARGE CURVE”-fabric in velour I just bought have now turned into one perfect curtain – and one large frame. I have the inverted “LARGE CURVE” in multicoloured velour since earlier:
My Pantonova chaise longue from 1971 was a bit bleached by the sun. I took it to a professional reupholsterer in Göteborg. He is one of the best in Sweden. I asked him if it was possible to separate all the fabrics from the cushions and then sew it back together inside out. And […]
Finally, Julian came home from hospital…
The biggest news today is not about Panton… Today, our son Julian arrived! He was pretty big. 4,8 kilos and 52 cm:s long. I hope he will have a happy life together with his older brothers Leo and Otis in Pantonworld. Welcome!