Tour of Vitra campus

 

                       Vitra, as the manufacture of contemporary and classic, have done
                       and keep on making amazing pieces furnitures with world's top
                       designer, such as
                       Eames, Charles & Ray, 
                       Naoto  Fukasawa, ,
                       Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec,
                       Jasper Morrison
                              
                       But today I do not want talk about any pieces of furniture.  I want
                       introduce the Vitra Campus- a story between Vitra and architects

 

 

 

 

 

Vitra Campus Map

It is not a  news that a manufacture built a museum to show their products like Fritz Hansen in Danmark,  But if you check the architects list of Vitra Campus, you will be shocked.

1. CONFERENCE PAVILION---Tadao Ando, 1993
2. BALANCING TOOLS---Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, 1984
3. VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM---Frank Gehry, 1989
4. VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM GALLERY---Frank Gehry, 2003
5. BUS STOP---Jasper Morrison, 2006
6. VITRAHAUS & LOUNGE CHAIR ATELIER ---Herzog & de Meuron, 2010
7. FACTORY BUILDINGS---Nicholas Grimshaw, 1981/1986
8. PETROL STATION---Jean Prouvé, ca.1953/2003
9. DOME---Richard Buckminster Fuller and T.C. Howard, 1975/2000
10. FACTORY BUILDING---Alvaro Siza, 1994
11. FACTORY BUILDING---Kazuyo Sejima/SANAA. To be finished 2012.
12. FIRE STATION---Zaha Hadid, 1993

Last year, The Vitrahaus finally finished by  Herzog & de Meuron where the home collection of Vitra places. It is brillant place to get inspirational ideas for your home

By the way, if you arrive to Vitra Campus, do not forget to goto The Lounge Chair Atelier. It is a  precious exprience to watch the whole process of making the Eames Lounge Chair.