&Tradition
A Copenhagen furniture and lighting house founded in 2010 that makes Verner Panton's Flowerpot lamp, reissues mid-century designs and commissions new work from designers such as Jaime Hayon.
- Founded
- 2010
- Based in
- Copenhagen
Pictures © &Tradition, from andtradition.com.
Why it is renowned
&Tradition makes the Flowerpot, the lamp Verner Panton designed in 1968, and it is the maker the official Panton archive names for the model in production today.1 Its catalogue joins new pieces by foreign designers with reissues: the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has made its Formakami pendants, Palette tables and Elefy chair, and the Stockholm-based designer Luca Nichetto its Cloud sofas.23 The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation in Britain licenses it to reissue Robin Day's furniture from 1951.45
The international design press follows its launches. Designboom has covered it at Maison et Objet in Paris in 2015, at imm cologne in 2017 and at Milan Design Week in 2019.623
The story
&Tradition was founded in Copenhagen in 2010.7 In 2015 its managing director was Martin Kornbek Hansen.2 The house is based at Kronprinsessegade 4 in Copenhagen.1
Alongside new commissions it brings back older designs. In 2019 it put into production pieces by Hvidt & Mølgaard from the 1950s and 1960s, among them the Spindle floor lamp of 1953, made then for the first time, and the Boomerang lounge chair, which the house dates to 1956.38 From Robin Day it reissues the Hillestak chair and table and his RFH lounge, dining and terrace chairs, all from 1951.4
Works
Flowerpot A lamp of two facing half-spheres designed by Verner Panton in 1968, made today by &Tradition as pendants, table and floor lamps in many colours.
Boomerang A lounge chair by the Danish duo Hvidt & Mølgaard, with a solid wood frame on slender brass or steel legs, reissued by &Tradition with or without armrests.
Formakami A series of paper lantern lamps by the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon for &Tradition, in ivory white paper with black stained oak.
Palette A series of multi-tiered tables by the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon for &Tradition, with tops of brass, marble and wood held at different heights on a steel frame.
Cloud A series of sofas and lounge chairs by the Italian designer Luca Nichetto for &Tradition, pairing the defined frame of Danish upholstery with the soft cushions of Italian sofas.
What to know it by
Sources
- Flowerpot VP1, 1968, Verner Panton Official. verner-panton.com, read 28 September 2026.
- jaime hayon and luca nichetto for danish furniture brand &tradition, designboom. designboom.com, read 28 September 2026.
- &tradition 'previews' novelties and reissues at milan design week 2019, designboom. designboom.com, read 28 September 2026.
- Robin Day (designer), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
- Licensees, Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation. robinandluciennedayfoundation.org, read 28 September 2026.
- andtradition, designboom. designboom.com, read 28 September 2026.
- &Tradition, About. andtradition.com, read 28 September 2026.
- &Tradition, Boomerang HM1. andtradition.com, read 5 October 2026.
- Jaime Hayon, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
- Space Copenhagen, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
- &Tradition, Flowerpot VP3. andtradition.com, read 28 September 2026.
Checked 28 September 2026, against the maker's own pages.