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ASTORIA CONE STOOL

[2jslideshow id=”34578″] Here comes a new important piece for the Pantonworld collection. This is the pianist´s Cone Stool at Hotel Restaurant Astoria 1960. It is one of the first versions of the stool with a small “keyhole” under the seat. You see the pianist sitting and playing on this chair in one of the pictures […]

MIRROR BOX

Today about 20 of my Panton pieces came back from a norweigian museum who showed them for some months. They built a really cool display box for the “Luminous Wall Element” prototype in context of Visiona 2. Here are some pictures without the light.  It is really crazy to look inside the box. It feels […]

EARLY FABRIC

[2jslideshow id=”34249″] The newest Panton fabric in the collection… “EN” from the Universa collection. This series of fabrics was printed by “Vereinigte werkstätten für kunst im handwerk” in 1963.

STEN HERMANSSON INTERIORS

The interior designer Sten Hermansson made a lot of interiors in Sweden from the early 60:ies to the 90:ies. He had the company Cirkel Design Center. From the 60:ies Sten worked with Verner Panton´s design such as furniture from Plus Linje, textiles from Unika Væv and lamps from Louis Poulsen. Later he became the swedish […]

EARLY SPIEGEL LAMP

[2jslideshow id=”34121″] Here comes the other Panton piece I picked up yesterday. This early version Spiegel Lamp is made out of steel and was made in 1968. It is the same material as in the lamps at Der Spiegel publishing house. Some other cool details are the original Louis Poulsen mounting and electric plug with […]