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PANTONWORLD IN SKöNA HEM

Today is the day that PANTONWORLD and some of my collection will show up in Swedens biggest interior magazine – SKÖNA HEM (edition number 12/2011). If you can not buy it near you, you can probably order it from this website: http://www.skonahem.com/Magazin If you live in Sweden, I guess you can find it in all […]

PANTONS MULTICOLOUR

“CURVE” 1969. “CIRCLE” 1969. “STRIPE” 1969. “QUADRAT” 1969. “CHECKERS” 1969. “WAVE” 1969. “ONION” 1969. “CONUS” 1978. Here you can see some of the multicoloured fabrics in my collection. Most of them are made in velour fabrics. In 1969, VERNER PANTON developed a 50 colour system for MIRA-X which was the producer of PANTONS fabrics. VERNER […]

TWO MIRA-X FABRIC PROTYPES

“TAL” (german) or “VALLEY” (english) 1978. “SCHNECKE” (german) or “SNAIL” (english) 1978. Here is two of my MIRA-X prototype fabrics. They are printed by the factory PAUSA in the south of Germany. They are made in August and September 1978 according to an index card that also tells that the design are made by Verner […]

MIRA-X FABRICS FROM THE 80:IES

Usually I collect VERNER PANTON fabrics from the 70:ies but I have just got some newer fabrics in the mailbox today. These three are made in cotton but has also a layer of lacquer on them as well. The quality is called LACKDRÜCK in german. They “shine” in different angels. PANTON was really a genius […]

THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERPOT LAMP

When I spooke to the MIRA-X co-ordinator, he explained how the famous FLOWERPOT LAMP came to life. VERNER PANTON had an order to make a candleholder for small candles in 1968. He came up with the idea of the FLOWERPOT lamp without any electrical parts. Because it was in enamel, it would tolerate the heat. In […]

FANTASTIC MEETING TODAY

Today I left Sweden to meet the former co-ordinator for the company MIRA-X. MIRA-X was the Swiss company (the fabrics were made in Germany) that made almost all of Verners fabrics in the 70:ies and the 80:ies. He was also the link between Verner and many of the other companys that Verner worked with. He […]

RED ROOM READY

Here comes some more pictures from the RED ROOM after I panted the ceiling all red.   The CHECKERS pattern is one of the coolest designs in VERNER PANTONS classical six multicoloured patterns if you ask me. In 1969 he made the: CURVE, WAVE, STRIPE, CIRCLE, KVADRAT and CHECKERS. In 1973 he also made the […]

A NIGHT IN PANTONS WORLD

Hotel Alexandra in Copenhagen have made a room with VERNER PANTONS design. http://www.hotelalexandra.dk/home/gallery/ You can also bid at Lauritz.com for a night in there: http://www.lauritz.com/Item/Item.aspx?LanguageId=3&ItemId=2374123&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lauritz.com%2fItemList%2fItemList.Aspx%3fSTA%3d3%26FText%3dpanton%26LanguageId%3d3%232374123EndTagRU#