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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.

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 Miniatures Collection by Vitra Design Museum includes the more important pieces of the international history of the design from 1850 since today. The construction materials and the colors of the miniatures exactly correspond to the original. Gives the fidelity to the original ones, the miniatures are not only collection objects for the impassioned of furniture, but they can also serve as ideal illustrative material in the universities and schools of design. Currently, the collection…

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

presented by VITRA the chair times documentary tells the story of 125 seating objects dating from 1807 to the latest 3D printed designs.

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..

Modernity specialises in the collection and sale of rare and high-grade furniture, ceramics, glass, lighting and jewellery by the most renowned Scandinavian designers of the 20th Century.