Vitra design museum

In the world of architecture, there has been a strong storm coming from Canada and USA since the early 1960s. It was a powerful cultural force, that pushed through established, conventional norms of architecture like a tornado, but a tornado which not only destroyed the old and boring but also created and invented. This tornado goes by the name of Frank Gehry. Born in 1929, Gehry eventually moved to the USA, where he started his business. Surprisingly, it was a furniture line, but that was…

September 19, 2016For years, one of the world’s most important furniture collections was hidden in a basement beneath a sawtooth-roofed factory in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Today comprising 7,000 pieces of furniture, approximately 1,000 lamps and an extensive archive — which includes documents and ephemera from the estates of Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Verner […]

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Vitra Design Museum has debuted Chair Times, a 90-minute film that describes the history of seating furniture.

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Vitra. Frank O. Gehry my first explored! March 5th #494

Vitra Design Museum on Instagram: “At the Vitra Design Museum we are currently installing our new exhibition “Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People”. We’re already…”

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Vitra has a new 90-minute documentary out called Chair Times, going through 150+ years of amazing design of the humble chair.

Designer Sabine Marcelis was invited to create an immersive installation for Vitra Design Museum, rearranging its Schaudepot location into a rainbow of furniture (on view until May 2023)