Issue 46
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01 VP Gate 1 rug
02 VP Astoria Coral rug
Designer
Carpets
The bold patterns on
the four latest Panton
rugs developed by
Designercarpets’ CEO
and designer Stefan
Drechsle are taken from
Verner Panton designs
of the 1960s
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02
D
esignercarpets was the first
carpet brand to be granted
permission to exhibit at
imm Cologne. At that fair in 2000,
the company showed its first rugs
by Verner Panton (1926-1998),
produced in close collaboration with
his widow, Marianne Panton.
Since 1999, Designercarpets
has held exclusive rights to produce
rugs by the Danish designer, known
for his bright textile designs, pop
interiors and furniture such as the
stackable plastic Panton Chair—an
object given design-world cult status
and still produced by Vitra today.
The bold patterns on the four
latest Panton rugs developed by
Designercarpets’ CEO and designer
Stefan Drechsle are taken from
Panton designs of the 1960s. They
were launched at imm in 2017.
Astoria was presented in two
colourways and comes from the
Op-Art inspired Geometri design
for the Astoria hotel and restaurant
in Trondheim, Norway. There, four
variations of the pattern appeared
on carpets and textiles across
floors, walls and ceilings to groovy
effect. Gate 1 & 2 come from a 1966
design that graced the large enamel
and metal gates of the Panton
family home near Basel.
The designs on the new rugs,
hand-knotted in Kathmandu, are
still striking in their modernity over
fifty years since their creation.
They are stocked at VitraHaus—the
flagship store of Designercarpets’
neighbouring company and longtime champion of Verner Panton. RM
www.designercarpets.com