Design Reads: A Closer Look At The Influence Of Vitra
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Photographer Iwan Baan provides a tour of these structures via a 68-page gallery of images. Of course, the campus features the Vitra Design Museum, which began in 1986 as a showcase of the younger Fehlbaum’s mid-century furniture collection and has since become a leading design institution, partly due to it being housed in a wildly contemporary structure of interconnected curving volumes also by Gehry. A poster sold in the museum store shows a grid of 224 chairs, which only represents a small percentage of Vitra’s offerings.
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