Vitra Vitra VITRA CITÉ ARMCHAIR 980761 Jean Prouvé Designed for a competition to furnish the student residence halls at the Cité Universitaire in Nancy, the Cité armchair is one of Jean Prouvé‘s early masterpieces. Prouvé himself used this dynamic looking armchair – with distinctive runners made of powder-coated sheet steel and broad leather belts for armrests – in the living room of his own... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA HEART CONE ARMCHAIR 980753 Verner Panton The design career of Verner Panton reached its first peak toward the end of the 1950s. With a furniture series based on simple geometric shapes, Panton anticipated elements of Pop Art, while also emulating the elegance of Scandinavian Modernism in the execution of the bases. The most famous designs from this series are the Cone Chair and... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA COCONUT ARMCHAIR 980782 George Nelson The Coconut Chair, a prime example of 1950s design, is distinguished by its humorous undertones, formal clarity and sparing use of materials. The designer himself, George Nelson, compared the armchair with a coconut cut into eight parts, though he reversed the colours: the outer shell of the Coconut Chair is white, while the one-piece... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA LA CHAISE ARMCHAIR 980788 Charles & Ray Eames Inspired by the ‘Floating Figure’ sculpture created by Gaston Lachaise, Charles and Ray Eames designed La Chaise as a lounge chair for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This voluminous lounge piece has a captivating elegance and allows a wide range of sitting and reclining positions. La Chaise has long since... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA LOUNGE CHAIR 980796 Charles & Ray Eames ‚Why don‘t we make an updated version of the old English club chair?‘‘ With this comment, Charles Eames initiated the development of the Lounge Chair, a process that took several years. The aim was to satisfy the desire for an amply proportioned chair that combined ultimate comfort with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship.... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA SLOW CHAIR ARMCHAIR 980812 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec created this expansive armchair by using an extremely strong, precisely shaped knit which is stretched over the metal frame like a fitted stocking. Thanks to the knit sling cover, the Slow Chair combines soft comfort with ergonomic support, which is further enhanced by thin seat and back cushions. The... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA MARIPOSA CORNER SOFA 980821 Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby The Mariposa sofas offer solutions for a wide range of requirements in regard to size and spatial planning: the Mariposa Love Seat provides spacious seating for one person or – as the name suggests – a cosy spot for two love birds. The Mariposa 2-Seater is an ideal choice for small, urban apartments where it offers full... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA ALCOVE SOFA 980830 Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Alcove Plume Contract dispenses with visible legs and an external tubular steel frame, which emphasises its reductive design and almost makes it appear like a minimalist sculpture. With their cubic shapes, both sofas serve as architectural elements that can be used to structure interior spaces. In contrast to their emphatically... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA FREEFORM SOFA 980847 Isamu Noguchi The sculptural quality of Noguchi‘s design vocabulary finds expression in the Freeform Sofa: it is entirely different from other designs of the same period, appearing in combination with the Ottoman like an enlarged sculpture of flat, rounded river stones. The slender organic forms are fluid and graceful. Noguchi emphasises the lightness... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA POLDER SOFA 980854 Hella Jongerius In the home country of Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, the word ‚polder‘ refers to low-lying flatlands, typically subdivided into fields serving various agricultural purposes, that have been reclaimed from the sea by means of dykes and drainage canals. With their flat surfaces, low-slung body and horizontal emphasis, both Polder sofas... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA TABLE SOLVAY 980869 Jean Prouvé During the years of 1941 and 1942, the Ateliers Jean Prouvé planned and executed a number of interior design projects for the Solvay chemical company. Numerous pieces of furniture were developed in connection with this commission, including a table made of wood that exemplifies Prouvé’s construction methods: its structural details illustrate... View
Vitra Vitra VITRA TRAPÈZE TABLE 980878 Jean Prouvé Like the Antony chair, the Trapèze table was originally developed for the Cité Universitaire in Antony near Paris and numbers among the final pieces created by the French ‚constructeur‘ Jean Prouvé in the area of furniture design. The name of the table refers to the distinctive shape of its paired legs, which are constructed from bent sheet... View