Pantorama

Bonus material:

Verner Panton's 1979 Pantorama has it all. It's both conversation pit and platform; virgin and whore. All of it.

Is Panton the one true God?

Verner Panton: Phantasy Landscape

I couldn't end this short series about big furniture without a look-in from Verner - "One sits more comfortably on a color that one likes" - Panton and his Phantasy Landscape Visiona 2, 1970.

Images via Architonic and Art Tattler.

Seating Platforms and John Chamberlain's Barges

One of John Chamberlain's "barges" at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and a seating platform in Frank Stella's loft, circa 1970, via Flickr and Ouno.

See John Chamberlain making one of his sofas (with a very long knife) in The Dakota in 1976 here. Awesome.

More of John's Brown Room in the Movie "Help!"

Dig that sleeping pit. The art director was Ray Simm.

Images via Eldest and Only - well worth watching the "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" movie (I still have a crush on Eleanor Bron).

Conversation (and Sleeping) Pits II

A couple more, with guitars, via Stop Worrying: A Tribute to the Beatles Film "Help!" and Ouno.

Alexander Girard Conversation Pit

The first in a short series of posts I'll be doing on conversation pits, platforms and other large seating elements, like John Chamberlain's barges (giant carved foam sofas).

First, Alexander Girard for Eero Saarinen's 1957 Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. The top image is original, the other two more recent.

Images via Ouno.

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