Vitra.
Project Vitra commenced in Basel and Weil am Rhein in the year 1957, when the company’s founders, Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, began to produce furniture by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson. Today we continue to manufacture these furniture classics, and we are still at home in the metropolitan region of Basel. Yet over the years the Vitra project has come to embrace many more things.
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In 1952, even before the famous Coconut Chair or the Marshmallow Sofa, George Nelson designed a chair made out of bent wood that was initially referred to, simply, as the “Laminated Chair”.
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The “Building Vitra: New Projects” exhibition is organized by the Vitra Design Foundation in collaboration with the ISR-Centro Culturale Svizzero di Venezia.
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Without doubt: With their “Super Normal” Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa are treading on uncertain ground.
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The desire to experiment has spawned an extraordinary collection of “signature architecture”: The Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein.
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‘Collage’ is one of the experiments in the Vitra project, the online pin board for our thoughts on design and architecture.
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Just what can get in the way of reason and normal human behavior are the deliberate intentions.
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From 1955 to 1981, the Vitra site in Weil am Rhein saw the successive addition of various manufacturing and warehouse structures that yielded a somewhat coincidental and improvised architectural composite.
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Vitra Edition is a laboratory that provides architects and designers with the freedom to create experimental furniture objects and interior installations.
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Jasper Morrison speaks about his work, and speaks out about today’s design malaise.
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A Vitra Design Museum exhibition, Weil am Rhein, September 13, 2008 – March 01, 2009
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Everyone knows the architectural landmarks of Dubai, but this new global city’s true achievement and future promise soars well beyond it’s dynamic growth and spectacular buildings.
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