DeTnk - Vitra Design Museum

An Eames Celebration at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:18:23 +0100

Charles and Ray Eames are counted among the most important designers of the 20th century. With their furniture, films, books, exhibitions and media installations, they have influenced generations of designers and continue to shape our everyday culture.

Ettore Sottsass – Rebel and Poet at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:09:06 +0100

This year he would have celebrated his 100th birthday: the Austro-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), one of the most influential and unconventional figures in twentieth-century design. He gained renown with his designs for the office equipment manufacturer Olivetti, for his poetic, minimalist sculptural objects, and as the leading figure of the Memphis design collective in the 1980s.

Together! The New Architecture of the Collective at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:13:21 +0100

Housing is scarce – that much has become evident in the last few years. As real estate prices in big cities continue to skyrocket, conventional ideas of housing development prove unable to meet demands. The reaction to these challenges has been a silent revolution in contemporary architecture – towards collective building and living.

Mudun مدن Urban Cultures in Transit at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Thu, 25 May 2017 10:47:37 +0100

Ankara, Baghdad, Tehran and Tangier are vibrant metropolises of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). They pulsate with an innovative cultural life – despite the political headlines. The exhibition »Mudun مدن Urban Cultures in Transit« views these cities from a micro-perspective, examining their architecture, urban neighbourhoods and the protagonists who shape them.

Monobloc – A Chair for the World at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:23:21 +0100

It is the most widely used piece of furniture in the world: the white plastic chair. As the quintessential example of a mass consumer product, the Monobloc chair can be found wherever there is a need for cheap seating – be it in European gardens, African cafés or Asian restaurants.

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Rêveries Urbaines at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:27:24 +0000

Following their exhibition »Album« in 2012, internationally renowned designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec return to the Vitra Campus in October 2016. The exhibition »Rêveries Urbaines« at the Zaha Hadid Fire Station presents concepts for urban development, and is a wide-ranging study of possible development solutions for cities that may be imagined in very different urban settings.

Dieter Rams. Modular World at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:32:14 +0000

Dieter Rams (born 1932) is one of the most influential German designers of the past decades. His designs for the Braun company are legendary, and his design principles are more relevant today than ever. From 18 November 2016 to 12 March 2017, the Vitra Design Museum is presenting an exhibition of Rams’ work in the newly opened Vitra Schaudepot.

Radical Design at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:40:41 +0100

The first Schaudepot temporary exhibition is dedicated to Radical Design, a design Movement that reached its peak at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s in Italy and is one of the most important avant-garde movements in the history of design.

Konstantin Grcic – Panorama at Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:46:13 +0100

Weil am Rhein

Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential designers of our time. Serious and functional, unwieldy and occasionally disconcerting, his works combine an indus- trial aesthetic with experimental, artistic elements.

'Shiro Kuramata - Design as Poetry' an exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum

Collecting Design — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:11:04 +0000

Bern

Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991) was one of the most influential Japanese designers of the 20th century. His unique approach married the traditional Japanese design aesthetic with Western design princi- ples of Postmodernism.