"Mira-Spectrum" Textile
Though Panton is best known for his plastic stacking chair (MMA 1986.425)—the first single-form, single-material chair to be mass produced—he was also responsible for designing a remarkable series of textiles for the Swiss manufacturer Mira-X. With its psychedelic, undulating wave pattern, this textile is a characteristic example of Op Art design, which experimented with abstract optical illusions achieved through judicious use of variation in hue and pattern. The palette is typical for Panton, and utilizes sequential variations in the limited color range that he favored for interior design.
Artwork Details
- Title: "Mira-Spectrum" Textile
- Designer: Verner Panton (Danish, Gamtofte 1926–1998 Copenhagen)
- Manufacturer: Mira-X
- Date: ca. 1970
- Medium: Printed cotton
- Dimensions: 82 1/8 × 94 1/2 in. (208.6 × 240 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Printed
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, by exchange, 2001
- Object Number: 2001.405.2
- Rights and Reproduction: ©Mira-X Stoffe AG
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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