Swiss designer furniture manufacturer, characterized by the manufacture of furniture designed by renowned designers and architects for homes, offices and public spaces.
The Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane – founder of the architecture firm ATTA – was commissioned to build this cabin, raised on a stone base with a timber structure enclosed with thatch, a material
Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, this is a mixed-use building, containing offices and apartments. Frizz23 is the fruit of participatory processes aimed at forming a cooperative of 32 small businesses and non-profit organizations which, thr
In a small town in Ávila province, this dwelling built with local granite surrounds a hundred-year-old walnut tree. To leave its roots and top untouched, the facade curves. The building’s petrous materiality was already present in the property, in a
The former St. Vincenz hospital, situated in the medieval town center of Paderborn, has been converted by the firm of David Chipperfield into a new headquarters for the company Jacoby Studios. Originally a 17th-century Capuchin monastery, the ensembl
Hidden under a sawtooth factory building, the Vitra Design Museum collection, ranked among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide, has never been on permanent display to the public. The Schaudepot has the appearance of an industria
Originally a silversmithing factory and then a furniture store, the building is now arranged around an atrium that serves to organize the program of the new Botín Foundation center in Madrid.
Located very close to Basel, the campus of the furniture manufacturer Vitra was begun in 1981, the year in which a major fire destroyed most of the industrial buildings the company had raised on those grounds since 1955. Nicholas Grimshaw designed th
Siza’s commision for Vitra has developed in two phases. The program first included an office building and a factory for the metal elements of the Vitrashop systems. Siza located two buildings on either side of the Charles Eames Strasse, wich is the p
Outdoor museums of vernacular architecture, initiated in Scandinavia in the late 1800s, proliferated in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum in Switzerland was inaugurated in 1978. Rolf Fehlbaum took over his family’s fur
As designers of furniture, of industrial or fashion products, as interior architects or entrepreneurs, women have made decisive and lasting contributions to modern design, and impulsed its evolution. However, in history books they appear less often t
Luis Barragán died in 1988, having bequeathed all his personal objects to his friend Óscar Ignacio González, and entrusted another friend, Ignacio Díaz Morales, with the task of deciding what institution to donate his library to. Díaz Morales then se
El encuentro en 1953 de Willi Fehlbaum, propietario de una tienda de muebles, con las sillas de contrachapado de los Eames fue el inicio del ‘proyecto Vitra’. Desde entonces, esta empresa familiar, dirigida por Rolf Fehlbaum, ha ido incorporando a lo
Asentada en un recodo del Rin, la ciudad suiza de Basilea limita con la Alsacia francesa y el Land alemán de Baden-Wurtemberg, y cuenta con una larga tradición universitaria, así como con un potente sector químico y farmacéutico. En esta próspera reg
At the crossroads of three countries, Basel promotes itself under the motto ‘Culture Unlimited’. This mixed label, which joins a mention to its intellectual legacy and artistic leadership with a suggested reference to its entrepreneurial dynamism, de
Desde que en 1981 un incendio destruyera la mayor parte del edificio de producción del fabricante de muebles Vitra, su sede en Weil am Rhein —una pequeña localidad alemana a escasos kilómetros de Basilea— ha servido como campo de experimentación arqu
