Vitra Design Museum
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| Country: | Germany |
| Place: | Because on the Rhine |
| Address: | Charles-Eames-Str. 1 |
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| Use: | museum |
| Client: | Vitra AG |
| Architect: | Frank O. Gehry |
| Architectural style: | Deconstructivism |
| Completion: | 3rd November 1989 |
The Vitra Design Museum is a Design Museum in Weil am Rhein . The legal form of the museum is a foundation . Rolf Fehlbaum , owner of the furniture manufacturer Vitra , initially planned a building for a permanent exhibition of his chair and furniture collection. After his encounter with Alexander von Vegesack , it was conceived and realized as a design museum for changing exhibitions and events. Alexander von Vegesack was appointed founding director of the museum and headed it from 1989 to 2010. Von Vegesack developed the museum into an internationally known and leading address for design and architecture. From 2011 to 2020 the museum was managed by Mateo Kries and Marc Zehntner as co-directors. Under their joint leadership, the scope of the exhibitions and events was greatly expanded. In 2011 the Vitra Design Museum Gallery and in 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot were opened by Herzog & de Meuron. The Vitra Design Museum has been headed by Mateo Kries as Director since 2020, with Sabrina Handler as Deputy Director and COO and Heiko Hoffmann as Head of Finance.
The Vitra Design Museum offers changing thematic exhibitions, retrospectives and workshops from the fields of architecture and design. While the earlier aim of the museum was to promote the “popularization of design”, today's curators attach importance to the fact that design is also “researched and communicated”.
collection
The focus of the collection is furniture and interior design. The basis was once the legacy of the North American furniture designers and architects Charles and Ray Eames , whose designs are manufactured by Vitra and distributed in Europe. In 1986, Fehlbaum bought 150 chairs from Vegesack's collection, who later became the museum director. The furniture collection now includes almost all well-known industrial designers, such as George Nelson , Alvar Aalto , Verner Panton , Dieter Rams , Jean Prouvé and Michael Thonet . A special feature is the acquisition, archiving and maintenance of the estates of deceased designer personalities. The collection can therefore comprehensively present design processes, from the sketches to the prototypes to the realized products. In addition to the furniture collection, a library and an archive with the estate of designers have also been set up.
Objects from the collection can usually be seen in the context of the changing museum exhibitions. In 2014, the Basel architectural office Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to design a new collection building specifically for the around 7,000 pieces of furniture and 1,300 objects in the lighting collection. The Schaudepot was opened on June 3, 2016 on the Vitra Campus . It is a windowless red brick building with a flat gable roof and is located next to the former fire station of Zaha Hadid . A second entrance to the Vitra Campus was created here, which is now easier to reach by train from the cities of Basel and Weil am Rhein. The permanent exhibition shows around “400 key pieces of modern furniture design from 1800 to today”.
From July 1, 2000 to January 18, 2004, the museum had a second location in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in a listed former Bewag transformer hall . In addition to the exhibitions from Weil am Rhein, special offers such as Design Berlin! New projects for a changing city , Issey Miyake & Dai Fujiwara: A-Poc Making and Cartier Design . When Bewag wanted to sell the building, they planned to move to the Pfefferberg cultural center . However, after construction planning and the laying of the foundation stone, the project was discontinued in 2008 for unknown reasons.
In 2010, the VitraHaus , designed by Herzog & de Meuron , was opened on the Vitra Campus architecture park near the museum . Rolf Fehlbaum dedicated this building to his mother Erika Fehlbaum, who died in 2009. The Vitra Design Museum Shop is located on the ground floor of the VitraHaus .
In 2003, the small Vitra Design Museum Gallery was built as an extension of Frank Gehry's factory gate, which had been in existence since 1989. It initially served as a museum shop until it moved to the VitraHaus in 2010 . From 2011 to 2015, smaller exhibitions and experimental projects were shown in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery .
2017 was the exhibition year with the most visitors so far. Ten exhibitions were presented, which saw a total of 178,707 visitors: in the Vitra Design Museum , the Vitra Schaudepot , the Vitra Design Museum Gallery and in the Fire Station by Zaha Hadid.
architecture
The museum and the production and administration building behind it were designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry , and it was realized in collaboration with the Lörrach architect Günter Pfeifer . After a construction period of three years, it was opened on November 3rd, 1989. It includes four exhibition rooms and a cellar. With this building, Gehry turned away from the materials he had previously used. Instead of a mixture of different building materials, he limited himself to white plaster and titanium zinc for the facade. The museum is located at the main entrance to the company premises - with the gatehouse also designed by Gehry. The sculptural structure is surrounded by fruit trees at a certain distance; a large iron sculpture by the sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen called “Balancing Tools”, which represent upholstery tools, is within sight of the museum.
It is Gehry's first building in Europe and the second in a series of designs by internationally renowned architects on the company's premises. Before that, a production hall had already been built based on a design by British Nicholas Grimshaw , followed by a building for the plant fire brigade by Zaha Hadid - later temporarily used as an exhibition building - a conference pavilion by the Japanese Tadao Andō and a production building by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira . Frank Gehry later realized another building for the company in Birsfelden, Switzerland .
In addition to the museum exhibitions, buildings with distinctive architectural history are also presented on the Vitra company premises. These are a gas station house by the French designer Jean Prouvé and a geodesic dome tent based on Richard Buckminster Fuller .
Exhibitions
Most of the exhibitions go as traveling exhibitions in major museums around the world. Catalogs or extensive accompanying volumes were created for all exhibitions, most of which were published by the company's own publishing house.
In November 2019, the museum published an encyclopedia on the history of modern furniture design, the Furniture Design Atlas . It documents the works of the most important designers of the past 230 years of furniture history and all important phases of design history. Over 70 authors from around 20 years of research at the Vitra Design Museum are involved in the more than 1,000-page “basic work”.
| theme | Duration |
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| Erich Dieckmann : Practitioner of the avant-garde. Furniture construction 1921–1933, Bauhaus Weimar, Weimar University of Applied Sciences, Giebichenstein Castle . |
June 13, 1990 - September 30, 1990 |
| Czech cubism . Architecture and design 1910–1925. | July 12, 1991 - September 22, 1991 |
| Bořek Šípek : The proximity of the distance. Architecture - design. | June 17, 1992 - September 20, 1992 |
| A chair makes history. | November 6, 1992 - March 28, 1993 |
| Citizen office. Ideas and notes for a new office world. | April 30, 1993 - September 26, 1993 |
| African seats. | June 10, 1994 - September 25, 1994 |
| Thonet : pioneer of industrial design 1830–1900. | September 30, 1994 - March 26, 1995 |
| 100 masterpieces from the collection of the Vitra Design Museum. | July 10, 1995 - January 21, 1996 |
| Alla Castiglioni . | January 25, 1997 - August 1997 |
| The world of Charles & Ray Eames . | November 19, 1997 - March 22, 1998 |
| Kid size. Furniture and objects for children. | Spring / summer 1998 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City. | June 10, 1998 - October 11, 1998 |
| Mies van der Rohe : Furniture and buildings in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno. | February 6, 1999 - April 25, 1999 |
| 100 years - 100 chairs. | April 29, 1999 - May 30, 1999 |
| Verner Panton . The complete work. | February 5, 2000 - June 12, 2000 |
| Luis Barragan . Silent revolution. | June 22, 2000 - October 29, 2000 |
| Isamu Noguchi . Sculptural design. | December 8, 2001 - May 1, 2002 |
| Living in Motion. Design and architecture for flexible living. | May 17, 2002 - September 15, 2002 |
| Ingo Maurer . Light - Reaching for the Moon. | October 3, 2002 - August 31, 2003 |
| Life under the crescent moon. The home cultures of the Arab world. | July 21, 2003 - January 18, 2004 and February 23, 2008 - August 31, 2008 |
| Marcel Breuer - design and architecture. | September 17, 2003 - May 2, 2004 |
| Airworld - design and architecture for air travel. | May 15, 2004 - February 27, 2005 |
| The view of modernity. Architectural photographs from the Alberto Satoris collection in dialogue with objects from the Vitra Design Museum. |
March 12, 2005 - May 29, 2005 |
| Joe Colombo - The invention of the future. | January 21, 2006 - September 10, 2006 |
| Jean Prouvé - The Poetics of the Technical Object. | September 23, 2006 - January 28, 2007 |
| Destruction of cosiness? Programmatic residential exhibition of the 20th century. | February 10, 2007 - May 28, 2007 |
| Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture. | September 29, 2007 - February 10, 2008 |
| Open house - architecture and technology for intelligent living. | May - November 2008 |
| George Nelson - architect, designer, author, teacher. | September 12, 2008 - May 3, 2009 |
| Antibody. Works by Fernando and Humberto Campana 1989–2009. | May 16, 2009 - February 28, 2010 |
| The essence of things. Design and the art of reduction. | March 20, 2010 - September 19, 2010 |
| Frank O. Gehry since 1997. | October 2, 2010 - March 13, 2011 |
| Zoom. Italian design and photography by Aldo and Marirosa Ballo. | March 26, 2011 - October 3, 2011 |
| BioMorph - organic design. | September 30, 2011 - January 8, 2012 |
| Rudolf Steiner - The Alchemy of Everyday Life. | October 15, 2011 - May 1, 2012 |
| Gerrit Rietveld - The revolution of space. | May 17, 2012 - September 16, 2012 |
| Erwin Wurm . | September 14, 2012 - January 20, 2013 |
| Pop Art Design. | October 13, 2012 - February 3, 2013 |
| Thomas Florschuetz - extract. | February 1, 2013 - May 26, 2013 |
| Louis Kahn - The Power of Architecture. | February 23, 2013 - August 11, 2013 |
| Lightopia. | September 29, 2013 - March 16, 2014 |
| Shiro Kuramata - Design as Poetry. | October 19, 2013 - January 12, 2014 |
| Visiona 1970 - Revisiting the Future. | February 7, 2014 - June 1, 2014 |
| Konstantin Grcic - Panorama. | March 22, 2014 - September 14, 2014 |
| Alvaro Siza - The Alhambra Project. | June 13, 2014 - October 12, 2014 |
| Alvar Aalto - Second Nature. | September 27, 2014 - March 1, 2015 |
| Source material. | October 24, 2014 - February 8, 2015 |
| Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design. | March 14, 2015 - September 13, 2015 |
| The Maker Library Network. | June 12, 2015 - October 4, 2015 |
| The Bauhaus #allesistdesign. | September 26, 2015 - February 28, 2016 |
| Alexander Girard . A Designer's Universe. | March 12, 2016 - January 29, 2017 |
| Hello, Robot. Design between man and machine. | February 11, 2017 - May 14, 2017 |
| Ettore Sottsass . Rebel and poet. | July 14, 2017 - September 24, 2017 |
| Monobloc . A chair for the world | Schaudepot, March 17, 2017 - July 9, 2017 |
| Charles & Ray Eames . The power of design. | An Eames Celebration (= four exhibitions). | September 30, 2017 - February 25, 2018 |
| Night fever. Design and club culture 1960 - today. | March 17, 2018 - September 9, 2018 |
| Victor Papanek : The Politics of Design. | September 29, 2018 - March 10, 2019. |
| Balkrishna Doshi . Architecture for people. | March 30, 2019 - September 8, 2019 |
| Objects of desire. Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today. | September 28, 2019 - January 19, 2020 |
| Home Stories. 100 years, 20 visionary interiors . | February 8, 2020 - February 28, 2021 |
literature
- Peter Rumpf: At the limits of geometry. The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. In: Bauwelt 80, 1989, pp. 2203-2216.
- Tonio Paßlick: The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. In: The Markgräflerland , 1990, issue 1, pages 131-136, Digitalisat of UB Freiburg .
- Olivier Boissière, Martin Filler: Vitra Design Museum. Hatje, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7757-0285-7 , 101 p., Numerous illustrations, graphic representations, architecture illustrated book.
- Dietmar Stock-Nieden: The buildings of Vitra Design GmbH in Weil am Rhein 1981–1994. Investigations into the history of architecture and ideas of an industrial company at the end of the 20th century . Dissertation , University of Freiburg i. Br. 2006, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 25-opus-25303 .
Movie
- 30 years of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. Television reportage, Germany, 2019, 2:29 Min, written and directed by. Sandra Helmeke, Production: SWR -Studio Freiburg, Editors: SWR Currently , First broadcast: September 9, 2019 in SWR television , Summary of SWR Currently, online- Video available until September 8, 2020. Conversation with Mateo Kries and short overlay.
See also
Web links
- design-museum.de - Vitra Design Museum
- Vitra Campus Architecture. ( Memento from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: vitra.com (interactive map)
- Vitra Design Museum. The secret mecca of furniture design. In: Die Welt , August 14, 2009, with a series of photos
- 20 years of the Vitra Design Museum. ( Memento from November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Badische Zeitung , November 6, 2009, photo series
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Vitra Design Museum. Accessed June 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ About us. ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Vitra Design Museum .
- ↑ About us. In: Vitra Design Museum , accessed on December 29, 2017.
- ^ Frank Nicolaus: Working on the design of one's own life. ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: art , 2001, No. 7, pp. 64–71.
- ↑ Michael Baas: New collection house for the Vitra Design Museum. ( Memento of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung , June 13, 2014.
- ↑ Michael Baas: Best-of of furniture design: Vitra Design Museum opens its new display depot. ( Memento from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung , June 3, 2016.
- ^ Vitra Design Museum has opened the Schaudepot. In: Vitra Design Museum , June 3, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016.
- ^ Michael Prellberg: Prenzlauer Berg. Design museum moves into the old substation. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 10, 2000.
- ^ Carmen Böke: Start of construction for the new Vitra Design Museum Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 24, 2005.
- ↑ Gabriela Walde: From: Vitra Design Museum does not move to Pfefferberg. ( Memento from December 29, 2017 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 10, 2008.
- ^ Vitra Design Museum Gallery & Pforte • Frank Gehry, 2003/1989. ( Memento from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: vitra.com / Vitra Campus Architecture .
- ↑ The Vitra Design Museum's exhibition year with the most visitors. In: barfi.ch , January 16, 2018.
- ^ Vitra Design Museum (ed.): Atlas of furniture design. Weil am Rhein 2019, ISBN 978-3-931936-98-3 .
- ↑ Clara Westhoff: The “Atlas of Furniture Design” from Vitra appears in November. In: AD Architectural Digest , September 24, 2019.
- ↑ Basic work on 200 years of furniture history. In: dds - the magazine for furniture and fittings , 23 September 2019.
- ^ Sibylle Peine: home decor. End of comfort . In: Die Welt , April 5, 2007, exhibition review.
- ↑ When plastic still helped. In: FAZ , December 3, 2012, page 28, beginning of the article.
- ↑ Exhibition: Visiona 1970 - Revisiting the Future. In: Architekturzeitung , December 13, 2013.
- ↑ Maja Fueter: Show in the Vitra Design Museum. Inspirational design from Africa. In: NZZ , February 11, 2015, exhibition review with illustrations.
- ^ Jochen Overbeck: Charles and Ray Eames. We have all sat in their chairs. In: Die Welt , October 1, 2017, with many photos.
- ↑ Susanna Koeberle: Design might make life beautiful - but it endangers the world. In: NZZ , April 20, 2018.
- ^ Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design. In: Vitra Design Museum , September 2018.
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