Vitra design

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

Building on the mid-century modern movement that included architecture and design greats like Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Arne Jacobsen, the Memphis Group of the 1980s sought to inject…

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 […]

Jean Prouvé | Chairs take the most stress on their back legs, where they bear the weight of the user's upper body. The engineer and...

The Vitra Design Museum's latest exhibition examines the idea of simplicity in design, be it in terms of form, material or method. Rather than being a..

Image 17 of 29 from gallery of Vitra Design Museum: George Nelson Installation. © Vitra Design Museum Archiv

@1stdibs This colorful plexiglass chair is an homage to the famous Steltman chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld.

Here is another set of photos of Vitra Edition, the collection of limited-edition pieces by famous designers including Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa and Konstantin Grcic that furniture brand Vitra launched in June, during Design Miami/Basel. This time the photos all have captions on them so we don't have to write them. Incidentally, Vitra's website has

Verner Panton | Verner Panton was one of the most influential figures in the development of design during the 1960s and ’70s. Along...