FLOWERPOT GARDEN VP5 by Verner Panton Materials: Lacquered aluminium and stainless steel with 5 meter PVC insulated cord Dimensions: W: 230 x H: 1272 x L: 288 mm Colours: Black, White, Orange, Red, Turquoise Light Source: 1x E27 max. 60 W or 11 W low energy bulb Design Date: 1969 Story: In 1968 the students’ revolts in Paris, Rome and the United States were overthrowing stiff, old values, and initiating the Flower-Power generation of peace, love and harmony. Same year, Stanley Kubrick pictured the future of the year 2001, featuring the Verner Panton Chair, and man was soon to set foot on the moon. In the world of design, a colourful, playful pendant hung in restaurants and exhibitions, and very soon, in everybody’s homes. The FlowerPot with its two semi-circular spheres facing each other has long proved its lasting design quality and is just as much a synonym of our time, too. & In his young days, Panton often set off from Copenhagen in an odd looking converted Volkswagen for a trek across Europe, dropping in on fellow designers to share ideas - and good meals andtradition.com

Verner Panton designed the FlowerPot Garden Tradition: Verner Panton (1926-1998) once said, “I have never learned so much from somebody as from Arne Jacobsen”. Yet his own fluid, futuristic style couldn’t have been further from Jacobsen’s, for whom he worked from 1950 to 1952. He graduated as an architect from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1951, and later he founded his own studio and went in the opposite direction of most of his contemporary Danish designers. Pop aesthetics in furniture and interiors were born. Verner Panton successfully interpreted the ‘a-changin’ times of...