Verner Panton 'Panthella 250' Table Lamp in 'Pale Blue' for Louis Poulsen

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Verner Panton ‘Panthella’ Table Lamp for Louis Poulsen. Designed 1971, current production.

Designed in 1971, Panthella stands out as one of Verner Pantons design icons with its unique expression where both the stand and the shade served as a reflector, thanks to the organic shapes that are characteristic of the Danish designer. The Panthella 250 Table Lamp is a downscaled edition of Verner Pantons popular Panthella Table lamp, with a compact 250 mm shade diameter and 335 mm height, makes for easy placement on windowsills, shelves, or tables. Regardless of which colour or material you choose, the Panthella 250 Table Lamp will provide exceptional light to all surroundings.

Verner Panton (1926-1998) is famous for his inspirational and colorful personality. A unique person with a special sense for color, shape, light function and space. Over the course of his career, Panton introduced a series of modern lamps with personalities unlike any of his Scandinavian contemporaries. With remarkable faith in the unlimited possibilities of form, he worked successfully to create a new set of theories about light function and influence.Creator: Verner Panton (Designer)Design: Panthella Table LampDimensions: Height: 13.19 in (33.5 cm)Width: 9.85 in (25 cm)Depth: 9.85 in (25 cm)Power Source: Plug-inVoltage: 220-240vStyle: Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)Materials and Techniques: Aluminum,MetalPlace of Origin: DenmarkPeriod: 21st CenturyDate of Manufacture: 2023Production Type: New Custom(Current Production)Estimated Production Time: 5-6 weeksCondition: NewSeller Location: Tilburg, NLReference Number: 1stDibs: LU5892234974712Shop All Verner Panton

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Verner Panton introduced the word groovy or at least its Danish equivalent into the Scandinavian modern design lexicon. He developed fantastical, futuristic forms and embraced bright colors and new materials such as plastic, fabric-covered polyurethane foam and steel-wire framing for the creation of his chairs, sofas, floor lamps and other furnishings. And Pantons ebullient Pop art sensibility made him an international design star of the 1960s and 70s. This radical departure from classic Danish modernism, however, actually stemmed from his training under the greats of that design style.

Born on the largely rural Danish island of Funen, Panton studied architecture and engineering at Copenhagens Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where the lighting designer Poul Henningsen was one of his teachers. After graduating, in 1951, Panton worked in the architectural office of Arne Jacobsen, and he became a close friend of Hans Wegner’s.

Henningsen taught a scientific approach to design; Jacobsen was forever researching new materials; and Wegner, the leader in modern furniture design using traditional woodworking and joinery, encouraged experimental form.

Panton opened his own design office in 1955, issuing tubular steel chairs with woven seating. His iconoclastic aesthetic was announced with his 1958 Cone chair, modified a year later as the Heart Cone chair. Made of upholstered sheet metal and with a conical base in place of legs, the design shocked visitors to a furniture trade show in Copenhagen.

Panton went on to successive bravura technical feats. His curving, stackable Panton chair, his most popular design, was the first chair to be made from a single piece of molded plastic.

Panton had been experimenting with ideas for chairs made of a single material since the late 1950s. He debuted his plastic seat for the public in the design magazine Mobilia in 1967 and then at the 1968 Cologne Furniture Fair. The designers S-Chair models 275 and 276, manufactured during the mid-1960s by August Sommer and distributed by the bentwood specialists at Gebrder Thonet, were the first legless chairs crafted from a single piece of plywood.

Panton would spend the latter half of the 1960s and early 70s developing all-encompassing room environments composed of sinuous and fluid-formed modular seating made of foam and metal wire. He also created a series of remarkable lighting designs, most notably his Fun chandeliers introduced in 1964 and composed of scores of shimmering capiz-shell disks and the Space Age VP Globe pendant light of 1969.

Pantons designs are made to stand out and put an eye-catching exclamation point on even the most modern decor.

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