Vitra’s iconic Panton chair is getting a reboot. The Swiss outfit has unveiled a new take on the gravity-defying masterpiece known simply as the Panton Duo. The original, which was the world’s first ...
Vitra has re-released Jean Prouvé’s Antony Chair, known for its relaxed shape and red details, making the first chair in the Vitra Design Museum Collection available again. Created in the early 1950s ...
In their own rights, Porsche and Vitra are known for design excellence. Now the German automaker and Swiss furniture designers are uniting for a special edition chair collaboration. Specifically, ...
Dezeen Showroom: Moca is a deliberately simple and stackable chair designed by Jasper Morrison and Vitra as an "understated addition to any setting". Moca is meant for use in both private and public ...
Swiss furniture brand Vitra is launching a limited-edition version of Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge Chair to commemorate its 60 years in production. Vitra's update of the chair is upholstered in black ...
'There are chairs – and there are chairs.' These are the words of Erwan Bouroullec, a French designer who knows a thing or two about making seating. For him, a chair should embody movement, lightness, ...
[Photo: courtesy Barber Osgerby] About four years ago, the Switzerland-based furniture manufacturer Vitra approached Barber Osgerby with a challenge: Design the next-generation of task chairs. “It ...
The average office worker spends eight to ten hours each day seated at a desk. So why do most of us devote so little thought to a piece of furniture we spend one-third of our adult lives in? Many—like ...
Last week at Orgatec, a leading European trade show for contract and office furniture, the Swiss company Vitra previewed a set of office seating prototypes, called Soft Work, which you might more ...
Unlike her predecessors, to redesign this large, rectangular space she has not taken inspiration from imaginary characters but from her own domestic setting, a spacious former paper factory in ...
It's difficult to find aesthetic beauty in a functional object that you use every day. Corkscrews, milk jugs, boomerangs – they're all amazing works of art in their own way; it's just that most people ...
The premiere exhibition in Korea of Vitra Design Museum’s 100 most important chairs in the 20th century chronicles industrial design, which is an increasingly important element in Korean contemporary ...