Vitra

Vitra - design furniture that makes history

Vitra uses the power of good design to sustainably improve the quality of living spaces, offices and public facilities.

Vitra has been producing furniture by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Over the years, this foundation has led to the development of a wide range of furniture for the office, the home and public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers. These three areas form the core of the Vitra brand.

Whether Home Collection , Office Collection or Public Collection - Vitra offers furniture for each of these spaces that is ideally tailored to the respective purpose.

Vitra Design: Home Collection

The Home Collection includes the best-known Vitra furniture: the undisputed design classics. Furniture by big names such as Charles & Ray Eames , Verner Panton or George Nelson are well known to all design aficionados. Vitra has been producing much of this furniture since its introduction many decades ago. The durability of this furniture - both visually and in terms of quality - has contributed significantly to Vitra's excellent reputation. Examples include Vitra chairs such as the Panton Chair or the Eames Lounge Chair , which today enjoy legendary status.

However, Vitra is not resting on its laurels from the past: Designers from the modern era also create furniture for the Swiss manufacturer's Home Collection: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec , Konstantin Grcic and Alfredo Häberli are just some of the well-known names with whom the traditional manufacturer has collaborated.

Office Collection: Vitra furniture for the office

In Vitra's Office Collection, the focus is clearly on modern and functional office furnishings. To this end, the manufacturer uses modern technological achievements to create perfect products for modern everyday office life. The "productive office" is the goal of this philosophy: the workspace should work for people instead of just being used by them. Of course, famous designers also come together here: Alberto Meda , whose ergonomic office chairs can be found all over the world today, is a well-known example.

Public Collection: Vitra Design integrates communication and retreat

Vitra also produces tailor-made solutions for public spaces. "Net 'n' Nest" is the name of Vitra's current philosophy, which is based on scientific findings. The combination of communicative spaces and retreat options is now regarded as the optimal combination for productivity and well-being. With this approach, networking and exchange with others is always possible ("Net"), while the need for retreat spaces for concentration and regeneration ("Nest") always remains the focus.

No matter which of these areas you look at: Right at the start of the design process, there is an approach that makes the perfect tailoring to different areas possible in the first place. Engineers and designers work together throughout the entire process of creating a product to ensure that quality, aesthetics and functionality are always maintained at the high level that has helped the furniture manufacturer achieve its excellent reputation.

The Vitra cosmos

Thanks to this interdisciplinary approach, there is much more to the Vitra cosmos today than just furniture production: Vitra also stands for the Vitra Design Museum , for a collection of modernist furniture and its archives, for workshops and publications on design and for an approach to architecture that brings together buildings by Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron (VitraHaus) and SANAA at the headquarters in Birsfelden (Switzerland) and on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).

Particularly worth seeing is the VitraHaus , which is home to the Vitra Home Collection. Vitra also produces accessories, sculptures and objects for children today.

The recipe for success: good design and uncompromisingly high quality

All these different areas have contributed significantly to Vitra's success over the decades. However, the family company's success story was only made possible by the consistent combination of good design and high quality. No matter what raw materials are used to make a Vitra product, you can be sure that the materials and manufacturing quality are among the best on the market.

This also includes sustainability: since its foundation in 1950, it has been a matter of course for Vitra that the production, use and disposal of a piece of furniture does not cause any damage. The longevity of the products is the highest premise, which was coined by Charles & Ray Eames at the time: At Vitra, both material and design are always designed to last for decades.

Website by Vitra