Well-known design furniture throughout time by Vitra

A family business for eighty years, Vitra believes in lasting relationships with customers, employees and designers, durable products, sustainable growth and the power of good design.

Design furniture produced by Vitra offers several extraordinary and remarkable designs. AndLight will take you through Vitra’s timeline and tell you the story behind the most unique design furniture.

Lounge Chair Wood 40s

The small Lounge Chair Wood (LCW) is an iconic design by Charles and Ray Eames that dates from the period of their early experiments in 1940s with three-dimensionally moulded plywood seat shells that conformed to the contours of the human body.

The iconic design of the LCW adds a striking accent to any room. By putting the chair in a arbitrary room, it will automaticly become the center of the room.
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Eames Plastic Chair 40s

For years, the designer couple Charles and Ray Eames explored the fundamental idea of a one-piece seat shell moulded to fit the contours of the human body.

After experiments with plywood and sheet aluminium in the 1940s produce unsatisfactory results, their search for alternative materials led them to glass-fibre reinforced polyester resin back in the late 1940s.

The Eames Plastic Chairs introduced a new furniture typology that has since become widespread: the multifunctional chair whose shell can be joined with a variety of different bases to serve diverse purposes.
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La Chaise the lounge chair 48’

Charles and Ray Eames created the lounge chair La Chaise for a competition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1948. The “Floating Figure” sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, whose voluminous shape has obvious affinities with the Eameses‘ lounge chair, inspired its name.

This expansive piece of furniture allows a wide range of sitting and reclining positions and has long established itself as an icon of organic design.
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Vitra Akari 10A floor lamp 51’

In 1951 the designer Isamu Noguchi began to design the Akari Light Sculptures, works characterised by weightless luminosity. He chose the name 'akari' for these objects, a word that means 'light' in Japanese, connoting both illumination and physical lightness

Each luminaire is meticulously crafted by hand in the Ozeki workshop, a traditional family-run company based in Gifu.

The Akari Light Sculptures are marked with a stylised sun-and-moon logo, which also resembles the corresponding Japanese characters. This symbol guarantees the authenticity of each product.
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The Lounge Chair 56’

Charles and Ray Eames developed the Lounge Chair back in 1956. The aim was to satisfy the desire for an amply proportioned chair that combined ultimate comfort with the highest quality materials and craftsmanship.

Qualities as elegance and compromiseloos comfortable made the Lounge Chair became one of the most famous designs by Charles and Ray Eames and has attained the status of a classic in the history of modern furniture.

The Lounge Chair kan be ordered with or without the Ottoman which is a complimentary footchair, that will complete the experince.
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The Aluminium Chair 58’

The Aluminium Chair is one of the great furniture designs of the twentieth century. Charles and Ray Eames conceived and developed this chair in 1958 for the private residence of an art collector in Columbus, Indiana (USA).

The Aluminium Group includes several different models for use in homes, offices and public areas. Vitra has produced Aluminium Group chairs in the same superior quality for decades. Because of this quality, they are able to grant a thirty-year warranty on all products in the Aluminium Group.

Regardless which chair you choose in the Aluminum Group, the chair adapts to the body of the sitter and is exceedingly comfortable, even without elaborate upholstery.
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The Panton Chair 63’

1963 marked the start of a collaboration between Vitra and Verner Panton with the development of one of the most iconic chair designs of the 20th century. The Panton chair.

The Panton Chair was represented in 1967 by Vitra after several years of development, and was the first chair ever to be developed independently by Vitra.

The original version of the chair is rigid polyurethane foam with a glossy lacquer finish. Verner Pantons’ aim was to create a comfortable chair made in one piece that could be used anywhere.
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The Wiggle Chair 72’

The architect Frank Gehry is known for his use of unusual materials. With his 1972 furniture series “Easy Edges”, he succeeded in bringing a new aesthetic dimension to such an everyday material as cardboard.

Although surprisingly simple in appearance, the pieces in this series are very durable and robust. The Easy Edges Wiggle Chair is vaguely reminiscent of traditional African stools and, like the latter, makes a statement in any interior.
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