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Vitra’s Chairman Rolf Fehlbaum and renowned architect Jacques Herzog discuss the idea of a “pile of houses”, the abstraction of colour and the importance of a rain drop with Abitare’s editors Stefano Boeri, Anniina Koivu and Giovanna Silva.
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Antonio Citterio was born 60 years ago and began working with Vitra 25 years ago. It has been a time of intense collaboration – no less intense today than when our relationship began.
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Every now and then, British designer Jasper Morrison sends us a photo accompanied by his personal observations.
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It can no longer be ascertained precisely when the idea started to take shape in the mind of Verner Panton for the design that became directly associated with his name. According to his own rather vague accounts and the few undated sketches that are preserved, it must have been around 1959/60 when he first began to work more intently on the idea of a cantilevered plastic chair made in one piece – hardly anticipating that it would take almost a decade to realize this idea.
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Vitra presented new products at the Milan Furniture Fair, amongst which were the Suita Sofa family, new variants of the classic Eames Lounge Chair and Eames Plastic Chair and Chairless, the seating device that has been reduced to its absolute most fundamental function.
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The search for good industrial architecture (the whole world over, in fact) seems much like a desperate attempt to find a needle in a haystack. No matter to which corner of the republic one goes in search of a good example, in almost every industrial or commercial area you are bombarded with the unimaginative juxtaposition of standardised system halls, constructed from composite panels or massive prefabricated elements. The facades of these production buildings and warehouses, with their added office sections, either come across as monotonous and boring or excessively loud and jarring.
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Every now and then, British designer Jasper Morrison sends us a photo accompanied by his personal observations.
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Here you will see a selection of photos that our customers and fans have sent us so far.
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Every now and then, British designer Jasper Morrison sends us a photo accompanied by his personal observations.
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Vitra begins with the production of Eames furnishings and establishes contact with the Eames Office, a landmark in the evolution of Californian modernism. Its utopian spirit is reflected in the dissolution of seemingly immutable distinctions between work and play, collecting and research, art and science, curiosity and responsibility.
