To describe Verner Panton's Welle series as "living room furniture" is almost an understatement. Like so much of Panton's vast oeuvre, these organic, wildly imaginative forms are a colour bomb in the sleepy world of traditional furniture - and leave us far from indifferent.
Panton first presented the Welle series at the avant-garde Visiona exhibition in 1969, alongside the Fun lamp and the Cloverleaf sofa, and these are truly some of the most organic shapes Panton has ever created. Welle is available in 6 different units.
Materials FSC wood frame, Modified Combustion High Resilience Foam (CRIB 5) or High Resilience Foam (Cal 117)
Welle 1 162 x 50 x H102 cm Welle 2 108 x 50 x H80 cm Welle 3 240 x 50 x H70 cm
Welle 4 140 x 50 x H63 cm Welle 5 108 x 50 x H40 cm Welle 6 54 x 50 x H40 cm
Welle 1
Welle 2
Welle 4
Welle 3
Welle 5
Welle 6
Examples
Welle 1 (2-seaters) – Tonus 508
Welle 2 – Gentle 873
Welle 3 (3-seaters) – Vidar 733
Welle 4 – Messenger 040
Welle 6 – Tonus 123
Welle 5 – Hallingdal 407
Verner Panton
Verner Panton (1926-1998) was an inspirational and colourful personality. A unique person with a special sense of colours, shapes, light function and room.
Verner Panton studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen before going on to work at Arne Jacobsen’s architectural practice. He set up his own design studio in 1955.
Over the course of his career, Verner Panton introduced a series of modern lamps and furniture with personalities unlike any of his Scandinavian contemporaries. With a remarkable faith in the unlimited possibilities of the form, he worked successfully to create a new set of theories about how lighting and furniture should work and how they should influence its surrounding.