“Prouvé combines the soul of an engineer with that of an architect” -Le Corbusier Characterized by an aeronautic-looking pair of rear legs, this design was rooted in practicality, balance and durability. This chair is a modern classic and is featured in design museums throughout the world. Its quality is revealed in structural logic and unassuming […]

Vitra is a Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design. Our products and concepts are developed in an intensive design process, which brings together our engineering excellence with the creative genius of leading international designers. It is our goal to create interiors, furniture and […]

Vitra is a Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design. Our products and concepts are developed in an intensive design process, which brings together our engineering excellence with the creative genius of leading international designers. It is our goal to create interiors, furniture and […]

Ross Lovegrove designed the elegant MOD bathroom range for Turkish brand VitrA. The MOD series is versatile and adaptable to most architectural situations and is compact enough to be a practical solution for cultures globally. Lovegrove points out that the challenge was to identify a design logic that would result in an intelligent modular system […]

The Panton Chair is Verner Panton’s best known and perhaps most significant design. He was known for his original and imaginative designs of furniture, lighting, and textiles. Excited about the design potential of plastic, a new material at the time, he wanted to create a comfortable, all-purpose plastic chair moulded in a single piece. Panton’s […]

In 1945, Charles and Ray Eames designed a toy elephant made of plywood. They found elephants to be be very charming, as depicted in many of their photographic works. The Plywood Elephant was intended to be played with by children, as exemplified by its curved edges. It was never mass-produced (only two models were made). […]

The idea behind Waver was to deliberately depart from conventional armchair typology. Waver embodies a new aesthetic, incorporating materials and construction principles from the outdoor sports that inspired the design. Though its technical construction is simple, Waver offers the very same comfortable seating generally associated with classic upholstered furniture. The vibrant colors of the fabrics […]

This Adirondack-style chair was once an industrial storage pallet. Repurposed from pine and oak with rare earth neodymium magnets that transform its design into a functional modular piece, this is a one-of-a-kind, handmade piece of work. Embedded magnets make it easy for the chair to collapse into an easy-to-store pallet shape. designer: trevor elliott producer: […]

Never has the concept “less is more” been more clear than with .03. Its soft seat and backrest shell, made of polyurethane foam, support the body and offer superior comfort. Built-in leaf springs provide an added resilience to the backrest as well. A well-designed chair that can be used in almost any space. designer: maarten […]

The un-office, office chair. Maarten van Severen’s .04 Chair is an unlikely display of angles and lines fused together to inform a design appearing distinctive from the usual. Made of a flexible, polyurethane foam shell, the chair is endowed with a micro-mechanism beneath the seat to allow for a wide range of movements, maximizing comfort […]