Verner Panton

For my interior space, I looked at Verner Panton who has designed several famous furniture before, and for that that reason I was interested to see if I could gain some inspiration from his work. I really liked the whole idea of living in almost a fantasy interior space filled with colours and almost every aspect of the space can be used to sleep, rest, or even lean on. I think this would be a good inspiration to use for my space.

Verner Panton's 1970 Visiona II was an entire "fantasy" environment designed for Bayer, for the Cologne Furniture Fair. It has since become an icon of Pop-era modernism.

"From the end of the Sixties to the mid-Seventies the chemical company Bayer rented a pleasure boat during every Cologne furniture fair and had it transformed into a temporary showroom by a well-known contemporary designer. The main aim was to promote various synthetics products in connection with home furnishings. Verner Panton was commissioned no less than twice to design this exhibition entitled 'Visiona'. The 1970 'Visona 2' exhibition showed the Fantasy Landscape which was created in this environment. The resulting room installation consisting of vibrant colours and organic forms is one of the principal highlights of Panton's work. In terms of design history this installation is regarded as one of the major spatial designs of the second half of the twentieth century."

Kandisky once said " colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key then another to cause vibration in the soul."