Vitra design museum along with other showrooms and galleries was built in vitra campus in the late 1980s to house the furniture collection that kept growing until today.
Floor plan vitra design museum.
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May 15 2018 plans of architecture frank gehry vitra design museum 1989 weil am.
Visitors to the vitra campus can see into the offices from the neighbouring depot deli restaurant and likewise the workshop and all meeting rooms have glass walls that dissolve the boundary between inside and outside.
To ensure the safe return of museum visitors some vitra design museum employees returned to their offices on that date as well.
Here changes to the floor plan had to be implemented quickly to facilitate physical distancing and ensure safe encounters between staff in meeting and communication zones while also providing distance regulated.
The shop on the ground floor of the vitrahaus offers a wide selection of design objects home accessories and publications.
The new design museum will open to the public on 24 november 2016 but held its press preview today and a friends and family day offering a first glimpse inside the building last weekend.
These include select furniture designs by major designers such as charles and ray eames george nelson jasper morrison sori yanagi and hella jongerius miniatures and faithful re editions from the vitra design museum as well as offers from other design manufacturers.
The museum annually mounts two major temporary exhibitions.
Smaller parallel shows are presented in the vitra.
Built on the north side of the grounds of the vitra campus off the production facilities the vitrahaus joins two other buildings in this area the vitra design museum designed by frank gehry 1989 the congress hall tadao ando 1993 in the town of weil am rhein germany.
It is dedicated to the research and presentation of design past and present and examines design s relationship to architecture art and everyday culture.
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