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| description | | The inception of the Vitra Design Museum dates back to the early 1980s. With the aim of documenting the history of the Vitra company, Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum began collecting the furniture of designers who had influenced the company's development, such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, and Jean Prouve. As the collection grew, so did the desire for an architectural venue in which the objects could be displayed. Today, the Vitra Design Museum is internationally active as a cultural institution that has made a major contribution to the research and popular dissemination of design. | |
| link | | www.design-museum.de (2974) | |
| phone | | +49 (0)7621 702 3200 | |
| fax | | +49 (0)7621 702 3590 | |
| address | | Charles-Eames-Strasse 1
79576 Weil am Rhein
Germany | |
| category | | Design Museums | |
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| added | | Mar 25, 2006
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 | | Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday
Rudolf Steiner was one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - reformers of the twentieth century.
October 18, 2011 - Exhibition: ends May 1, 2012 | |
 | | Ettore Sottsass: Enamels
Enamels, the first exhibition in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, is dedicated to the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass.
July 7, 2011 | |
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 | | Zoom: Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo
In the second half of the 20th century, Italian design attained worldwide recognition.
April 1, 2011 | |
 | | Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things
We use them every day. They influence our lives. They number in the billions.
August 26, 2010 | |
 | | The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction
Do financially difficult conditions automatically lead to more economical and longer-lasting products?
April 15, 2010 | |
 | | Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future
Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuclear cities" - the works of Italian designer Joe Colombo could have emerged from the set of a contemporary James Bond film.
March 2, 2008 | |
 | | Living Under the Crescent Moon Exhibition
"The casbah of Algiers has everything: all the elements of an architecture that shows immeasurable sensitivity to human needs and desires."
January 24, 2008 | |
 | | George Nelson: Vitra Design Museum Exhibition
In 2008, the American designer George Nelson (1908-1986) would have been 100 years old.
January 23, 2008 | |
 | | Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture
The work of Le Corbusier remains highly significant and relevant in today's architectural discourse.
September 19, 2007 | |
 | | Vitra Design Museum to Feature Workshops in France
A country estate in Southwest France….is there a better way to while away your summer?
April 12, 2006 | |
 | | A Hundred Years - A Hundred Chairs
The Vitra Design Museum has one of the biggest and most important collections of modern furniture design.
March 26, 2006 | |
 | | Airworld: Design and Architecture for Air Travel
Over the past one hundred years, no other means of transportation has been so profoundly transformed as the aeroplane.
March 25, 2006 | |
 | | Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of Technical Objects
This is the first comprehensive and systematic travelling exhibition of furniture and architecture which Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) developed and produced from 1924 until the mid 1970's.
March 25, 2006 | |
 | | Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future
Televisions that retract into the ceiling, pivoting walls with a built-in mini-bar, underground "nuclear cities" - the works of Italian designer Joe Colombo could have emerged from the set of a contemporary James Bond film.
March 25, 2006 | |
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 | | Naked Shapes Exhibition at Domaine de Boisbuchet
Domaine de Boisbuchet, a country estate in the Southwest of France that is renowned as an international site of experimentation in design and architecture, will present Naked Shapes, an exhibition of minimalist, aluminum Japanese household objects from the first half of the 20th century.
June 5, 2011 | |
 | | American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow, focuses on a design era that emerged during the 1930s and 1940s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes.
January 26, 2011 | |
 | | The Vitra Atelier
Vitra develops and produces furniture and accessories for home, office and public use.
January 6, 2011 | |
 | | GlassLab: Glass Design Performances on the Vitra Campus During Art Bas
The Corning Museum of Glass will bring GlassLab to the Vitra Design Museum during Art Basel 2010, pairing international designers with Corning Museum glassmakers for a series of collaborative "design performances."
May 6, 2010 | |
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