Grand Relax Ottoman
vitra > Pouf
Grand Relax by Antonio Citterio is a luxurious reclining lounge chair combining outstanding comfort with compact dimensions and a classic understated aesthetic.
Organic Chair
vitra > Chair
Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen created the Organic Chair in 1940 as part of their entry for 'Organic Design in Home Furnishings', a competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The small reading chair offers superb comfort, thanks to its comfortably upholstered, biomorphically shaped seat shell, and is also available in a version with a higher backrest: Organic Highback.
Slow Chair & Ottoman
vitra > Chair
The translucent sling cover of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Slow Chair (2006) replaces the thick cushions of traditional armchairs, resulting in a generously proportioned armchair that is both lightweight and comfortable.
ID Visitor Soft
vitra > Chair
Antonio Citterio collaborated with Vitra to develop different versions of the ID Visitor chair, perfectly coordinated with the ID Chair Concept. Thanks to an understated design, they can be combined with almost any office chair and integrated in a wide variety of work environments.<br/><br/>The fully upholstered backrest of ID Visitor Soft is – like the seat cushion – also available in a more sustainable PU-free version. The chair can be covered in fabric or leather; the cantilever base is stackable.<br/>
Desk Clocks - Cone Clock
vitra > Styling
The many accessories created for the home by George Nelson include a variety of table clocks. Representing a selection of these classic designs, the Desk Clocks offer a refreshing alternative to conventional clocks. Equipped with high-quality quartz movements, the charm of these decorative timepieces is equalled by their precision.
Lobby Chair ES 108
vitra > Chair
Charles and Ray Eames originally designed the Lobby Chairs to furnish lobby areas in New York City's Time & Life Building. Like all models of the Lobby Chair, the conference chair ES 108 has luxuriant leather-covered cushions that offer excellent comfort. The upholstery covers are available in different types of leather and in a wide range of colours.
Grand Conference Highback
vitra > Chair
Grand Conference is a visitor and conference chair designed by Antonio Citterio that pairs extraordinary comfort with an impressive, dignified appearance. Together with Grand Executive, Grand Repos, Repos and Petit Repos, it forms a group that lends a unified look not only to meeting and conference spaces, but also to offices, lobbies, waiting zones and reception areas.
Eames Storage Unit ESU, Bookcase
vitra > Cabinet
The ESU Bookcase is four units high. Fitted with drawers and sliding doors, it provides plenty of practical storage space.
Suita Chaise Longue, pointed cushions
vitra > Sofa
Characterised by an elegant technological aesthetic, the Suita sofa family (2010/2019) by Antonio Citterio comprises many different components. These can be freely combined or also used as independent elements.
Vases Découpage, Boucle
vitra > Styling
The hand-dipped Vases Découpage (2020) by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are whimsical, poetic compositions of cylinders, slabs and bars fashioned from clay.
Metal Wall Relief International Love Heart
vitra > Styling
The Metal Wall Reliefs are ornamental examples of wall decorations created by Alexander Girard for various interior design projects, exhibitions, his own house or – in the case of the International Love Heart motif – for The Compound, a legendary restaurant in Santa Fe. In cooperation with the Girard family, Vitra has selected several of the original motifs for the reliefs, which are made from robust metal materials.
Herringbone Vessels - Vase plain
vitra > Styling
The Herringbone Vessels are created by repeatedly immersing ceramic bowls and vases in a coloured glaze. This process yields a pattern with an intrinsic logic, determined by the dipping angle as well as the shape and weight of the piece. As the dyeing process is performed entirely by hand, each bowl and vase in the Herringbone Collection is a unique object.
Miniatures Stool (Model B)
vitra > Styling
Charles and Ray Eames received a commission to design the interiors of three lobbies in the new Time & Life Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City. In addition to outfitting these spaces, this major project encompassed the development of the comfortably upholstered Lobby Chairs and a group of stools made out of solid walnut. <br/><br/>The lathe-turned stools, which were also conceived by Ray to be used as small occasional tables, have distinctive individual profiles. The sculptural and decorative character of the stools makes the most striking impression when they are grouped together.These pieces were inspired by an African stool that stood in the living room of the Eames House, as shown in a photographic series by Monique Jacot from the year 1959.
Repos
vitra > Chair
A synchronised mechanism, concealed beneath the upholstery of the elegant Repos armchair, adapts automatically to the user's weight guaranteeing optimum back support at every angle of inclination. Repos is available with fabric or leather covers, in a selection of colours.
Belleville Table (rectangular)
vitra > Table
Reminiscent of the classic bistro table, the Belleville Table by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec comes in several versions. Rectangular tables of different sizes can be used both indoors and outside, depending on the choice of materials. The Belleville Table is also available in a small, elegant bistro version with a round or square top.
Happy Bin RE Large
vitra > Styling
The new high-quality recycled material used to make Happy Bin RE stems from Germany's 'Yellow Bag' (Gelber Sack) collection of household waste, from which used plastic packaging is sorted, cleaned, shredded and upcycled back into injection-mouldable polypropylene. Due to its composition, the recycled material is interspersed with tiny specks of pigment. These subtle colour variations perfectly complement the slightly irregular shape of the wastepaper bin: Swiss designer Michel Charlot was inspired by a Hans Arp sculpture when creating Happy Bin RE, which brings an unusual organic design language to the typically austere office.
Miniatures Tip Ton
vitra > Styling
The most striking characteristic of Tip Ton, designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, is its forward-tilt function: the front edges of the runners are angled at nine degrees to allow the chair to tip slightly forward and remain in this position, thereby improving posture, blood circulation and concentration. <br/><br/>Originally developed for a school in the English town of Tipton, the Tip Ton chair has since become established as a universal seating option, thanks to its perfectly proportioned design.
Eames House Whale
vitra > Styling
A prominent feature of the Eames House by Charles and Ray Eames was a wooden whale measuring over two metres in length. Its smaller reproduction, the hand-painted Eames House Whale by Vitra, is crafted from ash wood.
High Tray
vitra > Styling
High Tray (2018) is Jasper Morrison's further development of an idea that began with Rotary Tray: giving the classic display bowl a contemporary twist.
Eames Elephant (small)
vitra > Styling
Charles and Ray Eames developed a toy elephant made of plywood in 1945; however, this piece never went into production. A scaled-down version, the Eames Elephant (small) made of robust plastic, can be used as a child's toy or as a decorative object, whose friendly face adds a charming note to any setting. <br/><br/>The Eames Elephant also comes in a larger version, in plastic or elegantly moulded plywood.
Tabouret Haut
vitra > Chair
The classic Tabouret Haut bar stool by Jean Prouvé is available in robust solid oak, with a natural or dark stained finish. The chrome-plated steel ring with an anti-skid surface guarantees stability and offers comfortable use as a footrest.
Miniatures - Landi Chair
vitra > Styling
The Miniatures Collection of the Vitra Design Museum presents the most important classics of modern furniture history on a 1:6 scale and replicates the historic originals down to the smallest detail.
Miniatures La Mamma
vitra > Styling
La Mamma (Donna) is completely in tune with the spirit of Pop Art and the Gaetano Pasce fondness for anthropomorphic shapes. The chair was actually designed to resemble a prehistoric, female fertility figure, with a ball attached to symbolize captivity. The unconventional nature of the shape also applies to the construction and marketing of the chair which was one of a series of six.<br/><br/>Together they succeeded in marking a radical break from traditional upholstery production thanks to the technology developed by C & B Italia for creating oversized foam parts. Donna consists of a molded monoblock of foam withut any supporting structure since the foam rubber is dense and free-standing. First a finished piece of furniture covered with elastic nylon jersey is reduced in a vacuum chamber to about 10% of its normal volume and is then wrapped in airtight foil. The customer can easily transport the otherwise unwieldy piece single-handedly. After removal of the wrapper at the destination, the chair slowly recoveres its original shape without outside help as air seeps back into the capillaries of the polyurethane foam.
Storage Cabinets
vitra > Cabinet
The Storage cabinet range – variably equipped with shelves, hinged doors, drawers or tambour shutters – comes in several different heights and in widths of 80, 100 and 120 cm. The cabinet units can be linked vertically, horizontally and back to back.
Suita 2-Seater, pointed cushions
vitra > Sofa
Characterised by an elegant technological aesthetic, the Suita sofa family (2010/2019) by Antonio Citterio comprises many different components. These can be freely combined or also used as independent elements.
Ronan Bouroullec Drawing Poster, bicolour
vitra > Styling
The drawings of Ronan Bouroullec exemplify the practice of 'intuitive drawing', derived from Surrealism's literary roots and its écriture automatique.
Ceramic Container No. 1
vitra > Styling
The hand-glazed Ceramic Containers (1952) derive from the original lathe-turned wooden objects by Alexander Girard. Their silhouettes are reminiscent of the traditional shapes of apothecary vessels, board game tokens or millinery blocks.
Eames Tandem Seating ETS
vitra > Chair
Designed by Charles and Ray Eames for use in waiting areas, the robust Tandem Seating system has proven its quality over a period of decades, providing a comfortable place to sit in airports, train stations and other public spaces. The modular units can be configured to meet individual requirements.
HAL Soft Wood
vitra > Chair
The padded upholstery of HAL Soft provides superb comfort, with rounded contours that soften the appearance of the characteristic HAL shell. The wooden base further enhances the warm and casual appeal of HAL Soft Wood. The textile cover of the versatile chair can be removed and replaced as needed and comes in a selection of fabrics, including Laser RE which is made from recycled material.
Miniatures MR 20
vitra > Styling
During the mid-twenties, tubular steel won favor among avant-garde designers as a preferred material for furniture design. The most important designs for tubular steel, now regarded as classics of modern furniture design, were created within the course of just a few years. <br/><br/>During preparations for the Weissenhof exhibition in Stuttgart, Mart Stam developed a new chair type, the tubular steel chair with no back legs. In order to counter the possible instability of the cantilevered frame, Stam reinforced the steel tubing at critical angles, thereby creating a strong, but rigid structure. It was Mies van der Rohe who first discovered the elasticity of steel tubing and utilized it as a structural principle.<br/><br/>Inspired by Stam's idea, he designed the first flexible cantilevered chair in the history of design in 1927. The model was produced both with and without armrests under the names MR 20 and MR 10, respectively. The tubular steel furniture of the 1920s represents a rejection of the conventional, overladen bourgeois interior of the time, filled with massive furniture and decorative trinkets. The transparency and structural clarity of tubular steel furniture embodies a new ideal in architecture and design: interior space flooded with natural light.
Soft Wait
vitra > Bench
The sofa-style waiting area system Soft Wait combines casual comfort and ergonomic seating, while also being suited to heavy use and the exacting demands of public spaces.
Miniatures Plywood Elephant natur
vitra > Styling
The Plywood Elephant holds a prominent place among the plywood pieces designed by the Eameses. In the early 1940s Charles and Ray Eames successfully developed an innovative method for moulding plywood into three-dimensional shapes, which they used to produce a wide range of furniture and sculptural objects. Among the early plywood designs, the Elephant is one of the most difficult to produce. Tight angles and compound curves require a sophisticated mastery of plywood technology.<br/><br/>Designed at the same time as their children's furniture, the Plywood Elephant can also be seen as a playful counterpart to the leg splints developed by the Eameses for military applications – which were the very first mass-produced objects made of threedimensionally moulded plywood. <br/><br/>Requiring complex fabrication methods, the Plywood Elephant never went into production. Only two prototypes were made, both of which were displayed at the New York Museumof Modern Art in 1945-46. Today only one known model remains in the possession of the Eames Family. In 2007 Vitra produced the first commercial production of the legendary Eames Plywood Elephant as a limited Collector's Edition.
Polder Ottoman
vitra > Pouf
The distinctive character of Hella Jongerius's comfortable Polder Sofa derives from the combination of diverse fabrics and colours, an asymmetrical shape and charming details.
Wiggle Stool
vitra > Styling
The Wiggle Stool is part of Frank Gehry's 1972 furniture series 'Easy Edges', which successfully introduced a new aesthetic dimension to such an everyday material as cardboard. The iconic stool is robust and lends a striking note to any interior.
Wall Clocks - Star Clock
vitra > Styling
With his collection of Wall Clocks (1949-1960), George Nelson conceived a wide array of timepieces, many of which have since become icons of 1950s design.
Wooden Doll No. 6
vitra > Styling
Alexander Girard originally created the Wooden Dolls (1952), a whimsical assortment of figures both joyful and grim, for his own home. Today they add a charming touch to any interior.
Miniatures Gartenstuhl
vitra > Styling
Industrialization, with its new manufacturing techniques and materials began to supplant the traditional turner's and woodcarver's crafts in furniture-making. Long before Michael Thonet's first experiments with bent wood the use of iron had led to important innovations in this field. As early as 1736 an armaments manufacturer established by tsar Peter the Great started to produce large quantities of furniture made of cast iron.<br/><br/>Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a Prussian master builder, also used the cast iron process to rationalize furniture production. It was Schinkel's architectural work in particular which earned him the reputation of one of the major exponents of German »classicism«, but his work as a furniture designer was also of great significance. His elegant interpretations of the »classics« produced designs of formal austerity for all kinds of different purposes. Schinkel's designs included not only wooden furniture but also, at the beginning of the 19th century, large numbers of iron trestle tables, garden furniture and other items of furniture.
Wooden Doll No. 1
vitra > Styling
Alexander Girard originally created the Wooden Dolls (1952), a whimsical assortment of figures both joyful and grim, for his own home. Today they add a charming touch to any interior.
Akari 20N
vitra > Styling
The Akari Light Sculptures (1951) by Isamu Noguchi are a series of luminaires, handcrafted from traditional washi paper by Japanese artisans. ‘The harshness of electricity is thus transformed through the magic of paper back to the light of our origin – the sun.’ (Noguchi)
Wall Clocks - Flock of Butterflies
vitra > Styling
With his collection of Wall Clocks (1949-1960), George Nelson conceived a wide array of timepieces, many of which have since become icons of 1950s design.
Rayonnage Mural
vitra > Styling
Reminiscent of the rudder of an aircraft or ship, the streamlined shape of the two wall brackets of the Rayonnage Mural bookcase (1936) is a recurring element in Prouvé's creative oeuvre.
Classic Trays - Baby's Breath
vitra > Styling
The Classic Trays (1945-74) by Alexander Girard and Charles and Ray Eames come in three sizes. Made of laminated plywood, they feature motifs from the rich store of images created by these legendary designers.
Girard Ornaments - Moon
vitra > Styling
The range of motifs does not limit the use of Ornaments by Alexander Girard to seasonal occasions but a number of them are perfect, for example, for Christmas time.
AC 5 Meet
vitra > Chair
AC 5 Meet is the classic conference chair in the AC 5 Group of office chairs. Thanks to the understated elegance of its design and the use of high-quality materials, AC 5 Meet cuts a fine figure in both traditional and contemporary conference settings. The shape of the chair's backrest enables considerable freedom of movement, and it is combined with a rocking mechanism and shock-absorbing seat suspension to offer superb comfort – even during prolonged periods of sitting.
Panchina
vitra > Chair
Panchina is a small upholstered bench that can serve as a practical seating option or as a footrest for Repos and Grand Repos, thereby enhancing the extraordinary comfort of these armchairs.
Soft Modular Sofa Two-seater
vitra > Sofa
With carefully balanced proportions, great comfort and a conscious renunciation of decorative details, the Soft Modular Sofa (2016) by Jasper Morrison unites the characteristics of a modular lounge sofa in its purest form.
Airline
vitra > Chair
As a renowned architect of major international airports, Norman Foster is also an expert on their interior design. Vitra therefore sought his collaboration for the development of the AIRLINE seating system for waiting areas. AIRLINE can be easily assembled with a single wrench and reconfigured as needed. The system is flexible, extremely robust and easy to clean. The understated, sleek design ensures stylistic longevity.
Suita 3-Seater, pointed cushions
vitra > Sofa
Characterised by an elegant technological aesthetic, the Suita sofa family (2010/2019) by Antonio Citterio comprises many different components. These can be freely combined or also used as independent elements.
Magnet Dots
vitra > Styling
Magnet Dots are reminiscent of pebble stones due to their organically shaped contours. The powerful magnets with robust plastic covers come in four different colour sets, each containing five magnets.