Verner Panton Spiegel Swimming Pool 1969

For the famous news magazine which moved into the modernized premises in 1969 in hamburg s ost west street panton designed the entrance area with courtyard and lobby the canteen and the bar areas the swimming pool for the employees in the basement of the building the rooms for the editorial conferences and the lounges as well as the colour schemes for the hallways of the administration.

Verner panton spiegel swimming pool 1969. He designed the book s authors write a ceiling above the swimming pool with translucent bubbles in a varying color system that was reflected in the water and enhanced the color and light effects. How could people work when they had access to the coolest swimming pool destroyed early by a fire unfortunately a canteen that makes you feel like you re tripping on lsd and a snack bar featuring the best of verner panton s designs. For the spiegelverlagshaus which moved into the modernized premises in 1969 in hamburg s ost west street panton designed the entrance area with courtyard and lobby the canteen and the bar areas the swimming pool for the employees in the basement of the building the rooms for the editorial conferences and the lounges as well as the colour schemes for the hallways of the administration. As his documents read.

The least ones however know that it is the creation work of verner panton in january 1969 the spiegel publishing company and spiegel editorial staff entered in a new hamburg company headquarters. Panton design basel. There are many who consider verner panton to be the closest danish design comes to the ultimate avant garde the authors state. Some designers of his day believed he stole the idea from them and was simply a copy cat whereas others argue as stated in phaidon s newly published book verner panton that the chair is the ultimate demonstrative expression of panton s impatience with the handed down tradition as well as an attempt to outperform once and for all the sculptural artistic tradition of danish applied.

In the clamorous colour immersive experience of his seminal building for german newspaper das spiegel a firework display of geometry and colour murals glass and glimmering light according to the spiegel s internal newsletter in 1969 panton designed a swimming pool for the employees. In 1969 panton created new offices for the german weekly magazine der spiegel which included a pool in the staff s ground floor fitness and recreation facilities. Some know the canteen of the today s spiegel editorial staff house from films music videos or at least from photos. Panton s interior work for the spiegel publishing house stand as some of his most fantastically electric assemblages of colour and form and are one of only a few similarly period spaces still alive today.

Verner panton designed what is probably his most famous interior in 1969 for the new buildings of the spiegel publishing group in hamburg. For the famous news magazine which moved into the modernized premises in 1969 in hamburg s ost west street panton designed the entrance area with courtyard and.