Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €* Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Vitra Design MuseumCharles-Eames-Str. 2D-79576 Weil am RheinT +49.7621.702.3200F +49.7621.702.3590info@design-museum.de
Daily 10 am – 6 pm. The museum is open on all Sundays and public holidays.On 24 and 31 December the museum isopen 10 am – 2 pm.
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Objects of Desire:Surrealism and Design
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020Vitra Design MuseumAfter the Wall: Design since 1989
26.10.2019 – 23.02.2020Vitra SchaudepotTypology: An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items
07.12.2019 – 03.05.2020Vitra Design Museum GalleryThe Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
Permanent exhibitionVitra Schaudepot
Victor Papanek
31.10.2019 – 02.02.2020Barcelona Design MuseumBarcelona, Spain
Hello, Robot
03.11.2019 – 09.02.2020V&A DundeeDundee, Scotland
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
14.03.2019 – 01.12.2019Designmuseum DanmarkCopenhagen, Denmark
Alexander GirardA Designer's Universe
23.11.2019 – 01.03.2020 Palm Springs Art MuseumPalm Springs, USA
All exhibitions
The collection of the Vitra Design Museum ranks among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide. It contains some 7000 pieces of furniture, a vast assemblage of lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. On 4 June 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot was opened, created by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in which the Vitra Design Museum presents key pieces of its collection.
Guided tours through the Vitra Schaudepot:Highlights from the CollectionEvery Saturday and Sunday,2 pmBehind the ScenesEvery first Friday of the month,3 pm (in German)Focus Tour: MaterialEvery third Friday of the month, 3 pm (in German)
Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €*Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Daily 10 am – 6 pm.The museum is openon all Sundays and public holidays.On 24 and 31 December the museum is open 10 am – 2 pm.
The Collection of the Eames Office as well as estates of prominent designers such as Alexander Girard, Anton Lorenz, George Nelson and others are maintained in the archive of the Vitra Design Museum. The holdings also include company publications, brochures, posters, patent documents and drawings.If you have questions regarding the archive, please contact archive(at)design-museum.de
Furniture and other objects from the Collection of the Eames Office and some archival records (material studies, prototypes, furniture models, tools, serial products, photographs, printed matter). Period: 1940 – 1978, c. 1000 items. The Vitra Design Museum archives possess a variety of documents: vintage photos, magazines and journals, promotional materials, films from the 1940s on.
Records from the estate (library holdings, plans, drawings, photographs, slides). Period: 1924 – 1984, c. 7400 items. Nelson’s estate encompasses the areas of product design (especially furniture design), graphic design, industrial design, interior design and exhibition design; extensive coverage is given to his involvement with the “American National Exhibition” in Moscow in 1959. The George Nelson estate is the body of material most frequently consulted by outside at Vitra Design Museum.
Objects, records and textiles from the estate. Period: c.1949 – 1998, c. 600 items. Many projects from the fields of furniture design and furniture production and other areas (including many that were never realized) are documented with numerous large-format drawings.
Pioneer and co-inventor of cantilevered tubular steel furniture records, including case files on the functional principle on the cantilevered. Period: 1927 – 1974, c. 45 linear meters of files, c. 370 items. Inventor of the “movement chair”, Lorenz lived and worked in Berlin, and then in the United States from the 1940s. Worldwide, this is the most significant estate on the history of tubular steel furniture, containing correspondence with Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Laszlo Mohoy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Correspondence, photographs. Period: 1943 – 1979, c. 600 items. The bulk of the holdings concerns Bertoia’s work as a sculptor and metal artist.
Object and archive estate, period from ca. 1929 – 1985. The estate of the designer and architect Alexander Girard contains original documents, sketches and photographs as well as three-dimensional objects and an extensive collection of textiles.
Along with designs for industrial manufacturers, the estate is distinguished by a multitude of small, often handcrafted and highly personal objects produced for his own use and enjoyment. The documented materials include creations from the fields of furniture design, architecture, graphic design, textiles, tableware and decoration for corporate and private clients such as Herman Miller, Braniff Airlines, Detrola Corporation, Georg Jensen, James Irwin Miller and Billy Wilder along with materials from numerous design and folk art exhibitions organized by Girard, such as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Art Institute or the Hemisfair international exposition in 1968. As the long-time design director of the Herman Miller Textile Division, Girard worked side by side with Ray and Charles Eames and George Nelson whose archives likewise belong to the museum’s collection, allowing important connections to be made among these important holdings. The inventory of his extensive collections along with sketches, media reports and informational materials were carefully maintained and documented by Girard and his assistants, thereby constituting a unique source for further research on Girard. His expansive folk art collection, consisting of some 106,000 pieces, was donated by Alexander Girard back in 1978 to the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe where it can still be viewed in a presentation designed by Girard himself. The appraisal of the three-dimensional estate is currently being carried out at the Vitra Design Museum.