This retrospective at the Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot marks the 100th anniversary of Verner Panton. The exhibition explores his revolutionary spatial design through iconic furniture and rarely seen prototypes. Discover how his bold use of color and light transformed ordinary environments into playful living spaces.
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This comprehensive exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot marks the 100th anniversary of Danish architect and designer Verner Panton. It explores his revolutionary approach to spatial design, showcasing iconic furniture like the Panton Chair alongside rarely seen prototypes, living landscapes, and architectural projects.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Verner Panton's birth, the Vitra Design Museum presents a major retrospective at the Vitra Schaudepot. The exhibition chronologically explores Panton’s career, highlighting his move away from traditional Scandinavian design toward radically new spatial concepts defined by light, pattern, and intense color. Visitors can experience a walk-in reconstruction of the legendary Fantasy Landscape from 1970, which serves as a centerpiece to illustrate his multisensory, immersive approach to domestic space. The exhibition draws extensively from the Verner Panton Archive, which includes over 40,000 documents such as plans, drawings, and experimental models. Through these materials, the exhibition casts a new light on Panton's systematic pursuit of his design ideals, from his early cones chairs to his major corporate interior commissions like the Spiegel publishing house. By presenting unrealized architectural projects and the design processes behind his most famous works, the exhibition offers a differentiated view of a designer who sought to transform ordinary environments into playful, club-like, and chromatic living spaces.
The exhibition is located at the Vitra Schaudepot. Please check the museum's official website for general admission details and ticketing information.
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