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 > Poof
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.
EAMES WOOL BLANKET LIMITED EDITION - Jacquard reversible merino wool blanket _ Vitra
vitra > Furniture accessories
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.
