... When we met Italian designer Alberto Meda at Orgatec 2010 he told us that he was working on his next project for Vitra. And that it would be a chair. And that was all he told us. At Orgatec 2012 the secret was revealed when Vitra released the office swivel ... It's a different generation of swivel chair but one that is formally compatible with its relatives. And for all in - or near - Germany, until the end of 2013 your local Vitra dealer is offering...
... But just as soon as we've plucked up the courage, we will ask Vitra..... 1 Museum of Modern Art, New York "Prize-winning furniture in the International Low-Cost Furniture Design Competition to go on exhibition at the museum"...
... "The new Eames plastic chair is a dream fulfilled"1 While one can, should, accuse the Walker Art Centre Minneapolis of being somewhat hyperbolic in their 1950 guide to "Useful Objects", there is no arguing with the fact that with their family of moulded...
... Offering a full range of products from leading contemporary furniture manufacturers including USM Haller, Vitra, LoCa, Belux and Nils Holger Moormann, (smow) Cologne is run by Anett Ahlefeld and Guido Eichel, a management team who join (smow) from Vitra...
... Most were highly amused and assumed it was a new kids product. An opinion that quickly changes when you learn the background to the object. Developed for Hella Jongerius' recently completed redevelopment of the North Delegate's Lounge at the United Nations ... Or of course at your local Vitra dealer. A few impressions..... [gallery...
... When we spoke to Marc Zehntner and Mateo Kries, the joint heads of the Vitra Design Museum, they told us that they hoped to make the institution "... a much more vibrant location that doesn’t just present exhibitions exploring the most important design ... And in more locations. For whereas normally the fringe programme contends itself to events at the main Vitra Campus base, for Lightopia the Vitra Design Museum have joined forces with the Haus...
... Even Herzog & de Meuron's new Basel Messe complex was reduced to nothing more grand than a continuation of the uncaring monotonous sky. The glitzing, shimmering palace of high summer just the weak shadow of a memory. And so it was perhaps fitting that ... And so it was perhaps fitting that the Vitra Design Museum choose this dank September morn to open their latest exhibition, "Lightopia", an exhibition devoted to light. For today was a clear...
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