Literature: “Verner Panton - The collected works”. Vitra Design Museum, ill. and mentioned p. 289. “Square lamp which can be mounted individually or as ceiling or wall facing. Round, trough-like hollow, in the centre of which is the light bulb covered by a hemispherical shade.”

When the powerful German company Spiegel Publishing built a new headquarter in Hamburg, it sought to distance itself from the legendary vocabulary of the Bauhaus and to establish an image of a progressive, forward-looking company. It commissioned Danish designer Verner Panton for the interiors. And he in turn created the pinnacle of his vision and one of the more memorable interior projects of the postmodernist era. Panton integrated colour, texture, lights, textiles, into a dramatic expression, weaving all of the elements in the form of the gesamskunstwerk, or “total work of art.”