Living Tower
Panton's 1969 seating tower, over two metres high, with niches for sitting and reclining
2070 × 2060 × 630 mm
Source: spec sheet PDF — Living Tower
1969
USD 30,520, Living Tower, cover Volo: cognac (the configurator's only option, 29 cover options); the page's 'from USD 30,520' is the same figure (cheapest SKU 20127000), Vitra US shop, 2026-10-15
Description
Overview
The Living Tower is the furniture sculpture that Verner Panton developed in the context of the 1968 Visiona. Vitra's page says it can be used on four different levels, and its interior niches serve sitting and reclined positions.
Construction
- Frame in birch plywood, upholstered with polyurethane foam, a fabric cover and hand stitching
- Felt glides
- Fabrics Tonus (13 colours) and Volo (16 colours)
Specifications
- Fact sheet drawing, axes not named: 2070 mm across the front view, 2060 mm high, 630 mm in the second view
Story
A domestic landscape
Vitra's fact sheet describes the "domestic landscape" as a major theme of 1960s design: Verner Panton's total design installations fused floor, walls, ceiling, furnishings, lighting, textiles and wall panels into one artistic vision.
From the 1968 Visiona
The fact sheet says the Living Tower came out of the 1968 Visiona, the ship installation for the Cologne Furniture Fair, and calls it one of Panton's most unusual designs. Its two-part structure is birch plywood covered with upholstered padding, and the tower is crafted by hand.
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