Verner Panton in his own words

"The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination.

Most people spend their lives housing in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.

By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies,I try to show new ways, to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting."

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Verner Panton Biography

Danish architect and designer.
Born 13.Februar 1926 in Gamtofte, DK
Died 5.September 1998 in Copenhagen, DK

Education:
Odense Technical School, DK
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, DK
Studies in various European countries 1953-55

Independent architect and deigner since 1955
Visiting professor for industrial Design, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach, D 1984

Designs:

Furniture,lamps,carpets,curtains, upholstery fabrics,wall decorations, watches,clothes, accessories, etc.

Buildings:

• Cardboard house, DK 1957
• ‘Komigen’ Inn, DK 1958
• Spherical house, DK 1960
• Plastic house, DK 1960, etc.

Exhibitions:

• Dansk Köbestävne, DK 1958
• Bayer exposition ships Visiona O + II,
• Cologne, D 1968,1970
• Musée des Arts Décoratifs,
• Louvre F 1969,
• Museum für Angewandte Kunst,
• Cologne, D 1994
• «Farbräume» Littmann Kulturprojekte,
• Basel CH 1996
• Trapholt Museum, Kolding DK, 1998
• Design Museum, London GB, 1999, etc.

Interiors:

• Astoria Hotel, Trondheim, N 1960
• Spiegel Publishing House, D 1971
• Junior Casino, D 1973
• Gruner + Jahr Publishing House,
• Hamburg D 1974
• Circus Building, Copenhagen DK 1984,
• Erco Lighting, London, GB 1997, etc.

Memberships:

• Medlem Akademisk Arkitektforening, DK
• Danske Arkitekters Landsforbund, DK
• Industrielle Designer, DK
• Schweizerischer Werkbund, CH
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, GB

Awards:

• Rosenthal Studio Prize, D 1966
• PH - Prize, DK 1967
• International Design Award,
• USA 1963,1968,1981,
• Eurodomus 2, I 1968
• Medal of Austrian Building Centre, A 1968
• Price of Honour, Fourth Vienna
• Int. Furnishing Salon, A 1969
• 3 Federal Price «Gute Form»,
• D 1972,1986
• Möbelprisen, DK 1978
• Deutsche Auswahl, D 1981,1982 (twice),
• 1984,1985,1986
• Sadolin Colour Prize, DK 1986
• Danish Design Council Annual Award,
• DK 1991
• IF - Prize, Japan 1992
• Norwegian Design Award,
• N 1992 Bo Bedre Prize, DK 1998

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