VP Globe Pendant Brass

Verner Panton's VP Globe (1969) is a transparent acrylic sphere housing five internal reflectors suspended on steel chains, scattering a warm, glare-free glow. In the Brass version the reflectors are brass-plated for a golden light — striking on its own or in clusters.

Verner Panton was the great radical of Danish design. While his contemporaries refined wood and craft traditions, Panton embraced new materials, saturated colour and the optimism of the space age — a vision he staged most famously in his immersive Visiona installations. The VP Globe, designed in 1969, distils that vision into a single object: instead of hiding the light source behind a shade, Panton suspended a composition of curved reflectors inside a clear acrylic sphere, so the lamp reads as a small planet hovering in the room. The light never reaches the eye directly; it bounces between the reflectors and emerges soft and entirely glare-free. Today the VP Globe is produced by Verpan, the Danish manufacturer dedicated to keeping Panton's lighting in authentic production, true to the original construction.

The Brass edition is the warmest and most glamorous interpretation of the design. The brass-plated reflectors tint every reflection with a golden hue, so the sphere glows like a sunset captured in glass rather than a neutral white orb. It is a finish that flatters interiors built around warm materials — oak and walnut furniture, leather, terracotta, linen — and after dark it doubles as a piece of jewellery for the ceiling, throwing soft amber highlights across the room even before you notice the lamp itself.

Because the sphere is transparent, the VP Globe has a rare quality for a statement pendant: visual lightness. Even the larger sizes never block sightlines, which makes it surprisingly well suited to compact city apartments where a solid shade of the same diameter would overwhelm the room. Hang it over a dining table or in a stairwell where it can be admired from all angles, or float it in a living-room corner as a sculptural alternative to a floor lamp. It holds its own alongside other icons in our pendant lamp collection, and pairs well with a low-key table lamp for layered evening light. If you are weighing different Danish pendant classics, our PH 5 pendant buying guide is a useful companion read — the two lamps solve glare in opposite, equally brilliant ways.

Light source: E14, 1 bulb, max 60 W. IP20, indoor. Bulb not included — we recommend an E14 LED (6.5–7 W, 790–806 lm).