Lot: 486
Verner Panton
Three wall/ceiling elements 'Ring-Leuchte', 1969/70 (design)
H. 21 x 61.5 x 61.5 cm.
Louis Poulsen, Copenhagen.
Acrylic, colorless, blue, red, and dark violet.
Without lighting unit.
Hammer Price: 3,600 €
10. December 2025 at 3:00 PM CET
Literature:
Exh. cat. Verner Panton, Vitra Design Museum, Weil / Rhine 2000, p. 290. The lot numbers (481-486) all originate from a party room that was designed and furnished by Verner Panton for a private client in the early 1970s. The client was fascinated by the living environments created by Panton for Visiona I and II and therefore explicitly chose these colorful, psychedelic-fantastic living landscapes for his 400-square-metre party cellar in his home in a quiet residential district of Vienna. The bar was dismantled after the owner's death a few years ago; the remaining furniture and lighting fixtures went to his heirs. Viennese photographer Stefan Oláh was able to photograph this little-known Gesamtkunstwerk in 2019 for his exciting and highly informative photo book on 1970s architecture in Austria (Bunt, sozial, brutal.) and thus preserve it for posterity, at least digitally. Verner Panton's fabrics were used in this futuristic setting as wall coverings, tablecloths, and partitions; the ‘Ring lights’ on offer achieved cult status through their use in the legendary Spiegel Verlag canteen.
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