Founded in Germany, 1950 as a family company, the now Swiss owned design giant, Vitra, have manufactured design classics from the likes of Charles & Ray Eames and in 1987 launched their highly coveted Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany… the fantastically unique building being Frank Gehry’s first European work. Seemingly taking a lead from Gehry’s iconic design, their stately new super-showroom, also located in Weil am Rhein, is a series of traditional house style structures elegantly stacked upon one another, designed by the talented Swiss architects behind Munich’s sensational Allianz Arena, Herzog & de Meuron. Housing a café, design museum shop and their entire Vitra Home Collection, the VitraHaus is the perfect place to be inspired by the staggering amount of inspirational design products that Vitra offer… in fact, being located just steps away from their world famous design museum, it’s the perfect place to just come and be inspired… full stop.
Photography by the brilliant, Julien Lanoo
Photography by the brilliant, Julien Lanoo
Craig Davis
April 15th, 2010
All I can say to the new site it LOVE IT! and also I want to visit the Vitra haus TOMORROW!
good to see you back…
Thom
June 16th, 2010
This house is the absolute ultimate in avant garde architectural design. Incredible!