{"id":33398,"date":"2013-04-20T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/graphic-design-en\/vitra-design-museum"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:19:43","slug":"vitra-design-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/graphic-design-en\/vitra-design-museum","title":{"rendered":"Vitra Design Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
A few months ago, we visited Basel, where we discovered the work of Rolf Rappaz<\/a>. This stay was the occasion to visit the Vitra Museum<\/a>, located in Weil am Rhein in Germany near Basel. It is a private museum dedicated to design and furniture.<\/p>\n Vitra is one of the largest manufacturers of designer furniture. For 60 years they have published the biggest names in design: Charles Eames and Ray Eames, Jean Prouv\u00e9, Verner Panton, Philippe Starck, Jasper Morrison, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius or Arik Levy.<\/p>\n In 1981, after a fire, the chair factory site was gradually rebuilt and enlarged: in 1989, Frank Gehry built a production building and the Vitra Design Museum, his first European project.<\/p>\n The second building will be the fire station! The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid will take care of it.<\/p>\n Then followed Alvaro Siza (manufacturing hall), Tadao Ando (conference pavilion), Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (transport hall), Jean Prouv\u00e9e (service station) and finally Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron for the showroom: the Vitra House.<\/p>\n The Vitra House, which opened its doors in 2010, is a large permanent exhibition space for products from the Vitra collection. It is a stack of 12 extruded house silhouettes. This entanglement mixes interior and exterior in a concrete and poetic way.\u00a0The anthracite colour chosen for the fa\u00e7ade gives the building a sense of unity and anchors it in nature and the surrounding landscape. Like a small town with a vertical stratification.<\/p>\n The \"by night\" view is also very impressive!<\/p>\n Inside, impressive panoramic interweaving alternates with views obstructed by sections of walls. The interior spaces, in them, are white to give pre-eminence to the staging of the furniture.<\/p>\n Above, the Alexander Girard<\/a> figurines. We will try to come back soon on the course of this designer in our series of articles on the great names of graphic design<\/a>. It is moreover these same figures that are imposed as of the entry in the Vitra House, the decoration of the reception bank reproducing about twenty of these characters.<\/p>\n Located in Frank Gehry's building, the Pop Art Museum offers us a glimpse of the immense collection of Pop Art and design works that Rolf Fehlbaum, the founder of Vitra, has collected over the years.\u00a0The idea is to put forward a new image of Pop Art, in which design plays a central role for the first time.<\/p>\n This museum is based among others on works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, or Richard Hamilton, which are put into dialogue with projects by designers of the time, such as Charles Eames, George Nelson, Achille Castiglioni or Ettore Sottsass.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Vitra House<\/h2>\n
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The design kingdom<\/h2>\n
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Pop Art Museum<\/h2>\n
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