iVitra SchaudepotWeil am Rhein
Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Space
Marks Panton's 100th birthday with furniture from the Panton Chair to unrealised architecture, and a walk-in reconstruction of Fantasy Landscape (1970).
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In 1970 the chemical company Bayer asked Verner Panton to show off its new synthetic materials, and he answered with Fantasy Landscape, an organically shaped, colour-saturated room for his Visiona II exhibition. A walk-in reconstruction sits at the heart of this centenary show, and you can step inside it.
The rest runs chronologically along a colourful ribbon that winds through the whole Schaudepot, from bold 1950s interiors that broke with Scandinavian tradition to his work of the 1990s. Everything comes from the museum's own Panton archive, so beside the Panton Chair, the Cone Chair and the Flowerpot lamp there are prototypes, models and his mostly unrealised architecture, shown in detail for the first time.
It suits anyone who knows the chair and wants the rest of the career. The catch is the trip: the Schaudepot is in Weil am Rhein, just over the German border from Basel. It opens daily 10:00 to 18:00; tickets are €16 (under-13s free), or €26 with the Vitra Design Museum.
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Fantasy Landscape (1970)
A walk-in reconstruction of the organically shaped, colour-saturated room Panton made for Bayer's Visiona II show to prove what new plastics could do; you can go inside.
The Panton Chair
Look for the first chair without back legs moulded from a single piece of synthetic material, conceived in the mid-1950s and only put into series production by Vitra in 1967.
The Cone Chair
The cone-shaped seat Panton made with the firm Plus-linje, his first internationally known design, early in the chronological route.
The unbuilt architecture
Panton's mostly unrealised architectural projects, shown in detail for the first time, drawn from an archive holding about 20,000 plans and drawings.
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- Visitas de fuera
- Días de lluvia
Con niños
Under-13s go free. The museum runs interactive tours for children and a workshop where participants design their own living spaces as paper models.
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- Verner Panton: Form, Colour, SpaceVerner Panton Design AG
- Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the SensesPhoto: Iwan Baan, 2026 © Iwan Baan
- Yanik Soland: Walking on Rubber EggshellsPerformance von Yanik Soland mit Phoebe Bognár, Miriam Paschetta, Tomohiro Iino, Stefano Grasso und Larissa Rapold. Foto: Ivana Kresic © Kunsthaus Baselland
- Vitra SchaudepotChoinowski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Vitra Design MuseumKotivalo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0