06/06/2026
The exhibition is a vibrant deluge of form and colour! I am so happy to have visited the museum at a time to see this fabulous exhibition and was reminded of the true extend of his imaginative work.
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As a graduate in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Verner Panton emerged from the legendary tradition of Danish furniture design and gained his first professional experience in the office of the renowned architect Arne Jacobsen. But he soon turned in a completely different artistic direction: from the late 1950s onwards, Panton developed radically new spatial concepts in which colour, textiles, and light played a central role. With swings and living towers, he used domestic space in playful and informal ways, while light, patterns and carefully applied colour scales helped him modulate the mood and character of his interiors.
The chronologically structured exhibition shows how systematically Verner Panton pursued his design
ideas. Already his early interiors of the 1950s were bold, colourful statements that broke out of Scandinavian design traditions.
The exhibits are embedded in a scenography that references Pantonâs immersive spaces: a colourful ribbon runs through the entire Schaudepot, transporting visitors into a Panton-inspired world of chromatic colour scales.
All objects come from the Verner Panton Archive at the Vitra Design Museum which includes furniture, prototypes, experiments, models, as well as more than 40,000 documents, among them about 20,000 plans and drawings.
Drawing from this unique source, the exhibition presents works from all creative periods, thus offering a more differentiated view of the legendary designer oeuvre than before. For instance, Pantonâs mostly unrealised architectural work is shown in detail for the first time, and the design process behind many of his projects is highlighted.
The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the Verner Panton Design AG, holder of all rights in Verner Pantonâs work.
Verner Panton | colour | Vitra |