Verner Panton, The Panthella, Light, Form, Color, Totality, Radicalism, Time and Décor and The Self

Contributed by Jack Niblett


Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.

Verner Panton, The Panthella, Light, Form, Color, Totality, Radicalism, Time and Décor and The Self is a pocket-sized publication containing one hundred aphorisms by Danish designer Verner Panton (1916–1998). Titles, numbers and informational pages are typeset in JN Messenger, whilst the aphorisms are typeset in Univers Black. The publication also contains a series of text set in Univers, and projected on one of Verner Panton’s famous designs: the Panthella lamp.

Commisoned by Louis Poulsen and For Scale,  and designed by Studio Lowrie, the publication launched with a physical party in New York.

Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.


Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.


Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.


Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.


Source: forscale.substack.com © FOR SCALE, 2026. License: All Rights Reserved.

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