"You sit more comfortably on colours you like"

He made design history with his visionary creations. Verner Panton revolutionised the way the Sixties looked at design, especially with his interiors. The man‘s modest and impassioned manner was in considerable contrast to the image of the enfant terrible which the international design scene liked to associate with him. Today, fifty years later, his designs are among the most popular icons of the 20th century. What is remarkable above all is that his conceptual and formal ideas are only now being fully adopted in architectural and design trends, and are being used as the basis for further development – made possible by computer-aided design and production processes. Verner Panton was ahead of his time.

5 September 2008 is the tenth anniversary of the death of the Danish designer, who spent a large part of his life in Switzerland. This date will be the occasion for the launch of www.verner-panton.com, the official Verner Panton reference portal. Over the space of two years Architonic conceived, designed and implemented this comprehensive and unique reference portal on behalf of and in close cooperation with the designer‘s family and the graphic designer Robert Lzicar (STVG) from Zurich. It is in particular the farsightedness and decisiveness of the Panton family in digitalising Verner Panton‘s precious bequest and making it available to the public which is unique in the annals of the twentieth century‘s major designers.
For Architonic it was a special honour to be involved in this project. In this important and complex task Architonic was in an ideal position to take advantage of the conceptual, technical and market-oriented knowhow acquired from the development of its own portal.

The clearly structured navigation provides a detailed and user-friendly overview of Verner Panton‘s work in its entirety. A special innovation in the web design is the fact that the navigation history functions not just via the Back button but also vertically by simply scrolling down the page. In addition to reference to the products still available today and examples of auction results, the portal offers its design-loving visitors a wealth of pictures and texts which have never been published previously.