The Phantasy Landscapes of Verner Panton

January 13, 2003 3:44 PM

Verner Panton, a fantastic Danish architect and designer known for his wild interiors and furniture. “Most people spend their lives housing in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours.” He definitely was not afraid. Tak skal du have, Verner!
posted by snez (10 comments total)

There’s a magnificent promotional video of his work on this flash based fan site (still under development) that I don’t know how to link directly to. Click on his name, then click on enter, then environment, then Visiona 2, and finally the video tab is to the right. Wow. For other great interiors, check here. If only Trading Spaces had designers like these.
posted by snez at 3:46 PM on January 13, 2003

Is "skal" danish for colorblindness?
posted by jonson at 3:56 PM on January 13, 2003

I'm fairly sure it's Danish for "stoned out of his gourd."
posted by five fresh fish at 4:18 PM on January 13, 2003

time to "smoke-out" !
posted by bureaustyle at 5:05 PM on January 13, 2003

Somebody roll up a "number."
posted by Mr_Spook at 6:09 PM on January 13, 2003

I was looking in some my-first-design-book yesterday and I saw some of this guy's work. Looks like great nightclub fare. Anyway, cool links.
posted by Succa at 6:43 PM on January 13, 2003

...and for those lovely rooms how about some furniture? Pour me a metropolitan baby, I'll be in the Bubble Chair.
posted by bonehead at 6:51 PM on January 13, 2003

i was impressed
posted by ejoey at 9:33 PM on January 13, 2003

Just looking at the pictures gave me a headache. I guess I'll stick to rectilinear beige living spaces.
posted by blm at 2:38 PM on January 14, 2003

Admittedly, its very cool looking and I would love to end up in that 'cave' room one saturday night, but its impractical. Can you imagine trying to vacuum/dust that room?
posted by kookywon at 9:14 AM on January 15, 2003