Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926–1998) studied architecture at Denmark's Kunstakademiet – the prestigious Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – graduating in 1951. After working at Arne Jacobsen's architectural practice for a couple of years he set off in his Volkswagen van to explore Europe. He returned to Denmark full of ideas, and in 1958 undertook a commission to redesign and extend the Komigen Inn, which was run by his parents on the island of Fyn. The result was a sensational expression of the futuristic, colour-saturated, shape-shifting geometric styles that came to characterise Panton's work through the 1960s and into the 70s, with five shades of red in the interior decor to give it warmth, and rooms divided into smaller units with a flexible system of boldly geometric fabrics hanging from the ceilings.
Verner Panton’s futuristic 1959 Topan light design for Louis Poulsen has rarely been out of the limelight in its more than 50 years of existence. Freq...
The family connection between two of the great Danish lighting designers is widely known – indeed, anyone who is aware of Simon Henningsen‘s work will...
In September 1972, journalist Bengt Rooke reported in Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet that a 60-strong delegation of American architects and interior d...
At first glance the lights below, discovered in Finland, might be mistaken for a wall-mounted version of Verner Panton’s Flowerpot for Louis Poulsen –...
In the late 1960s both Louis Poulsen and Fog & Mørup launched lines of assorted lamp models in coordinated colours under unifying taglines. In 1968 an...
When people come across a vintage Panthella for the first time they often think there’s something wrong with the on/off switch. “It’s not working prop...
One of the more elusive lights produced by Lyfa in the 1960s is the Seks-tre-pendel (pictured below, left), an unorthodox creation by Ole Panton. Born...
Did Verner Panton design Louis Poulsen's versatile LamPetit? Certainly the compact little lamp is unexpected for its 1966 date, looking more like some...
