Verner Panton’s Vibrant World – Interview with Carin Panton
...On February 13, 2026, Verner Panton (1926 - 1998) would have celebrated his 100th birthday... Verner Panton's designs were never quiet...
| Product type | Pendant/ceiling lamp |
| Dimensions | ![]() Cable length: 3 m |
| Weight | 0,95 kg |
| Colours | Lacquered![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Metallic lacquered ![]() ![]() |
| Material | Lacquered steel Textile cable in same colour or black (metallic versions) |
| Function & properties | E27, max. 40 W |
| Delivery includes | Light bulb not included |
| Care | To clean, wiping with a damp cloth and a mild detergent is recommended |
| Assembly | Please click on picture for detailed information (ca. 0,2 MB).![]() |
| Certificates & Sustainability | IP Code IP20 Protection class II |
| Warranty | 24 months |
| Product datasheet | Please click on picture for detailed information (ca. 1,0 MB).![]() |
| Product family | Flowerpot Collection![]() |
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...On February 13, 2026, Verner Panton (1926 - 1998) would have celebrated his 100th birthday... Verner Panton's designs were never quiet...
...A 1950s Denmark that also saw the origins of considerations on the possibility of a chair that it would be 1967 before it was realised and 1968 before it became a series product: Verner Panton's eponymous chair through Vitra... A Panton Chair that, arguably, couldn't have been realised in the Denmark of that period, regardless of the symbolism of Jacobsen's SAS Royal hotel, required Verner Panton to look outwith Denmark for a partner; a Panton Chair that took the cantilever of a Stam's S 33 and its contemporaries and not only translated it from steel tubing into polyurethane, thereby helping confirm the durability of synthetic plastics, but also rounded the Cubist corners of the Functionalist Modernist steel tube furniture of the 1920s as 30s, and thereby not only began to find a way back to the flowing curves of a Michael Thonet, but also created a piece of furniture more attune with the less formal, less rigid, less austere, less quadratic, somewhat freer, mellower, organic, western European society of the 1970s...
...No mean claim, and when one considers that from 1971 until 1981 MIRA-X cooperated exclusively with the arch-colourist Verner Panton, a claim which, arguably, says quite a lot about 1970s understandings of "harmony"... While also very nicely underscoring how important switching Copenhagen for Basel was for the career of Verner Panton...
...Rietveld and Wilhelm Wagenfeld before moving over, almost, all the famous classics of the genre, including, George Carwardine’s 1932 Anglepoise, Tizio by Richard Sapper, Artichoke by Poul Henningsen and various works by Verner Panton before reaching 85 Lamps by Rody Graumans through droog...
...In terms of the Panton Chair: Has the Panton Chair been produced in the spirit of Verner Panton?... And legally: Have the producers the rights from Verner Panton to produce the Panton Chair?...
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