23 paper and fabric swatches of colors in the format of a color wheel. The four white squares that hold these swatches are staggered in alignment. The top left square supports four swatches of cool toned grey colors. The top right square supports four swatches of various green tones. The bottom right square exhibits the colors grey, tones of blue, black and a dark maroon. On the bottom left are eight swatches of cool and warm tone reds. The bottom right square exhibits the colors grey, tones of blue, black and a dark maroon.

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	We acquired this object.
2015	Work on this object began.
2018	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Panton Color Wheel, 2015

This is a Panton color wheel. It was designed by Hella Jongerius and made for Vitra AG. It is dated 2015. Its medium is mixed media.

As Art Director for Colors and Materials, Dutch designer Hella Jongerius created a specific color wheel for each of Vitra’s designers. “All the designers come to us having made their own color choices,” she said. “It’s very important that each one has signature colors that no one else can use. . .” Panton’s wheel illustrates his commitment to pure, saturated color as a fundamental component of design.

It is credited Courtesy of JongeriusLab and Vitra AG.

Book, Atlas of the Munsell Color System

Book, Atlas of the Munsell Color System
letterpress with collage on paper.
Gift of Walter Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1492 .M96a.
92.2016.33

Book, The Practical Wilson Colour System

Book, The Practical Wilson Colour System
lithograph with collage on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, ND1285 .W53X.
92.2016.62

Book, Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques (Colors and Their Application to Industrial Arts Using Chromatic Circles)

Book, Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide...
aquatint with yellow, blue, red, and black ink on paper.
Purchase from the Margery Masinter Endowment, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1280....
92.2016.40

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Large sample of silk-screen printed cotton velvet with a design of striped, curving lines in eight gradated shades of turquoise. The eight lines curve identically in three separate and equally identical groups that run vertically down the sample: the gradation of the lines move from dark to light beginning at the left of each group. The negative space throughout the sample is filled with a medium-toned turquoise color that also exists as a line in the middle of each group. There is an irregular white border around the sample with small print lettering and the artist's signature in cursive running down the top left corner of the border. Slight creases that form neat squares are present throughout the sample's fabric.

Sample, Decor I Series, Curve, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-2

Large sample of silk-screen printed cotton velvet with a design of concentric squares in eight gradated shades of turquoise. The concentric pattern sections out the sample in an overall 3x3 formation of nine distinctly large squares. Beginning at the top left, every other large square has within it eight gradations that start with an outter dark turquoise and grow to light; the remaining four squares between this pattern have an opposite formation that has an outter light turquoise that gradates to dark. There is an irregular white border around the sample.

Sample, Decor I Series, Square, 1969
cotton.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt....
2017-9-4

Its dimensions are

H x W: 137.2 × 137.2 cm (54 × 54 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2LpuvT/
Accession Number s-e-2675
Object ID 1158866093