2043/​836

Verner Panton (b. Gamtofte 1926, d. 1998)

A red enameled metal ashtray. Designed 1969. Manufactured by Emaillerie Corgémont, Switzerland. H. 7.5. Diam. 10.5 cm.

Designed for the Spiegel publishing house, Hamburg, 1969.

Literature: “Verner Panton - The collected works”. Vitra Design Museum, ill. and mentioned p. 305.

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.”

Condition

Wear. Some scratches and marks. Smaller chips on the enamel.

Auction

Modern art and design (postponed), 22 October 2020

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3,000 DKK

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Price realised

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