The Vitra Design Museum's "Atlas of Furniture Design" is a comprehensive exploration of modern furniture history, spanning from industrialization to the digital age. With over 1,000 pages, it documents 1,740 objects by more than 540 designers, featuring extensive texts and illustrations, making it an essential resource for design enthusiasts and scholars alike.
"Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture" presents a comprehensive collection of over 680 images showcasing the evolution of global megacities and notable works by contemporary architects like Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid. The publication features contributions from various authors and highlights Baan's personal involvement.
Rudolf Steiner was a pivotal reform figure of the twentieth century, known for founding the Waldorf school movement and influencing alternative agriculture and medicine. His architectural masterpiece, the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, is a landmark of early modern architecture, showcasing innovative concrete use in a sculptural manner. As an artist, he inspired notable figures such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joseph Beuys, and continues to influence contemporary artists like Olafur Eliasson and Tony Cragg. This book offers a comprehensive overview of Steiner's creative contributions while exploring his historical context and lasting impact. It features essays from respected authors who examine various aspects of Steiner's work, including the era of his influence, his integration of natural and spiritual science, and his contributions to architecture, design, and performance. The essays are complemented by an extensive catalogue that highlights Steiner's major works alongside those of significant contemporaries and modern artists. An illustrated biography wraps up the book, marking a significant effort to present this important twentieth-century figure to a broader audience.
Since the 1980s, the Vitra company has erected buildings in collaboration with some of the leading architects of the present day, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Herzog & de Meuron. This has resulted in a unique architectural ensemble, about which the architectural critic Philip Johnson wrote: 'Since the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, there has not been a gathering in a single place of a group of buildings designed by the most distinguished architects in the Western world'. The Vitra Campus currently attracts over 330,000 annual visitors. While the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron provides the opportunity to experience furniture classics and new products from the Vitra Home Collection, the renowned Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry presents alternating exhibitions, which are accompanied by numerous events and workshops. Further attractions on the Vitra Campus include a museum shop, a café, and guided architectural tours of the buildings on the Campus. With roughly 200 illustrations, the 'Vitra Campus' book offers an overview of Vitra architecture, its daily use, the development of the Campus, and biographies of the architects. It is ideally suited as a souvenir, as preparation for a visit, as a Campus guide, or simply as interesting reading on some of the most significant architects and buildings of our time.
This publication features diverse images and texts on renewable energy products, solar house designs, and wind turbines. It explores intelligent mobility concepts and visions for energy self-sufficient cities, making it ideal for those interested in the future of energy and design.
This updated edition of Vitra's 2017 publication presents recent developments in robotics and digitization This volume investigates how robotics has become an integral part of life: in industry, in the military and in everyday settings; at nurseries and retirement homes; in our bodies; when shopping and when having sex; in video games and in films and in literature. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews, experts including science-fiction author Bruce Sterling and the design duo Dunne & Raby explore what an increasingly digital environment means for us humans. They highlight our often-ambivalent relationship to new technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges they pose for us as individuals and as a society. Hello, Robotbroadens the scope of debate to include the ethical and political questions arising from technological advances in robotics today, and confronts us with the contradictions that often underpin the answers to these questions.
Issey Miyake is regarded as a leading fashion designer. He explores the relationship between body and clothing, sculpting the human frame with new modern day fabrics, creating his trademark dynamic shapes and forms. A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) is the result of the collaboration between Miyake and Dai Fujiwara and their quest to revolutionize the process of clothing production. Together they have completely re-thought the process, from the use of new generation raw materials, to the machines used, to the fitting of the wearer. The tubes of fabric produced in the A-POC factories, hold complete clothing ensembles waiting to be cut out, thus literally allowing the fabric to be cut and fitted straight on to the wearer. A new concept of clothing manufacture for the fashion industry in the 21st Century.
„Joe Colombo – Die Erfindung der Zukunft“ ist die erste umfassende Publikation zum Gesamtwerk Joe Colombo, der 1971, auf dem Höhepunkt seines Karriere, verstarb. Colombo war nicht nur einer der erfolgreichsten Industriedesigner seiner Zeit, der zahlreiche Designklassiker für Unternehmen wie Kartell, Zanotta, Stilnovo, O-Luce und Alessi entwarf. Er war auch einer der wichtigsten Visionäre der Sechziger Jahre. Mit seinen futuristischen Interieurs und Wohnmodulen wollte er das „Wohnen der Zukunft“ vorwegnehmen. Ausführliche Essays der besten Kenner von Joe Colombos Schaffen sowie hochwertige Reproduktionen von Colombos Handskizzen, Grundrissen, Objekten und Interieurs zeigen in dieser Publikation, wie Colombo seine weit reichenden Zukunftsvisionen in weltweit erfolgreiche, funktionale Designprodukte umsetzte.
Charles und Ray Eames gehören zu den einflussreichsten Designern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Eames Furniture Sourcebook gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über ihre Möbelentwürfe, darunter Meilensteine der Designgeschichte wie ihre Sperrholzmöbel, die Draht- oder Kunststoffstühle, die Aluminium-Gruppe oder der legendäre Lounge Chair. Mit detaillierten Texten und umfangreichem Bildmaterial rekonstruiert das Buch die Entstehungsgeschichte der Möbel des Designerpaares, erläutert den innovativen Umgang der Eames' mit Materialien und Techniken und analysiert die Bedeutung ihres Werks im Kontext der Zeit. Als Grundlage für das Buch dient die Sammlung Eames im Vitra Design Museum, die umfangreichste Sammlung von Eames-Möbeln weltweit. Sie umfasst einen Großteil der Prototypen, Experimente und Studienmodelle aus dem Eames Office sowie viele weitere Schlüsselwerke der beiden Designer. Ausstellung: Charles & Ray Eames. The Power of Design, 30.09.2017 - 25.02.2018, Vitra Design Museum
