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ASTORIA RESTAURANT IN TRONDHEIM

  THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE FOR “MØRKETS SANS” (A SENSE OF DARKNESS):   VINTERHAVEN (VINTERGARDEN):   GULLEPLET (THE GOLDEN APPLE):   APPELSINEN (THE ORANGE):   TYTTEBÆRET (THE CRANBERRY):   VINTERHAVEN (VINTERGARDEN):   THE LOBBY BAR:   Here you can see another picture from the Lobbybar: http://www.verner-panton.com/spaces/archive/phase/822/     During some years back, I have had contact […]

TABLE CRASH AT HOME

Yesterday I putted up a Pantonova diningtable under our new FUN 7 lamp. Today, our twin boys, Leo and Otis managed to flip the glas plate over the edge of the table. Luckilly they were both on the same side so they survived without any damages at all. PUHH! The plate was almost 2 cm […]

WIRE CONE CHAIR FROM PLUS LINJE

The last new object I will show you today is this DINING WIRE CONE CHAIR. It has original turquise furnishing fabric in perfect condition. Plus Linje made it in 1958. There was two versions. One with a back rest cushion and one without that cushion.   Here is some of the other chairs I have […]

GEOMETRY 1 FABRIC FROM ASTORIA

    I really like Pantons fabrics and today I got these rare fabrics from a collector in Norway. The two pieces with bigger pattern are authentic pieces from Restaurant Astoria in Norway. All other fabrics from Astoria are now in museums. You can see that the “Astoria-version” had a bigger print and the colour […]

TWO WIRE CUBES BY FRITZ HANSEN

Next two items this week is these two WIRE CUBES made by FRITZ HANSEN in the 70:ies. You can also see a exhibition catalog on top of one cube. I will come back to that soon but you will then see very cool pictures and read about the Astoria restaurant in Trondheim, Norway that Verner […]

A PROTOTYPE ASHTRAY IN WHITE

Another cool objects showed up today… This is probably a prototype for an ashtray designed for the DER SPIEGEL PUBLISHING HOUSE. Verner made his ashtrays in red, blue, turquise and orange but not white… He usually made his prototypes in white so the colour shouldn´t distract when he created the form. The Swiss company Emaillerie […]