Requiem for a Dreamscape (opens in new tab)

A look inside Verner Panton’s Fantasy Landscape, debuted at the 1970 Cologne Furniture Fair. A retrospective in Germany honors Verner Panton, the Danish designer who transformed the spirit of American counterculture into psychedelic interiors blending color, sensuality, and fun By Lewis Jacobsen Beginning with the Beat Generation, slowly and gently, like pot smoke seeping from a college dorm room, America’s counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s insinuated itself in unlikely places with unexpe...