Vitra - Wiggle Side Chair miniature
For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been producing miniature replicas of the furniture design milestones of its collection. The Miniatures Collection encompasses the entire history of industrial furniture design, moving from historicism and art nouveau to the Bauhaus and the new objectivity, from radical design and postmodernism to the present day.
Exactly 1/6 the size of the historical originals, the chairs are all scaled and recreate with precision the smallest details of construction, material, color. The high standard of authenticity also extends to the natural grain of the wood, the reproduction of the vines and the elaborate artisanal techniques involved. This made miniatures popular collectibles, as well as artwork ideal for universities, design schools and architects.
Frank Gerhry
Frank Gehry, born 1929 in Toronto, Canada, graduated in architecture from the University of Southern California before studying urban planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
In 1962 he founded the architectural firm Frank Gehry & Associates in Los Angeles. He designed the Easy cardboard furniture series Easy Edges between 1969 and 1972. Over the years he has taught at several universities, including Harvard and Yale, where he served as Charlotte Davenport Chair of Architecture (1982, 1985, 1987-89) and where he still teaches.
Gehry has received numerous honorary degrees from several institutions, including the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Edinburgh.
By combining the technical and conceptual experience with the creativity of contemporary designers, Vitra continues to push boundaries and question the status quo. Vitra’s origins as a design company lie in the casual discovery of a chair by Charles and Ray Eames in a New York showcase.
The spirit of innovation expressed by the creations of the couple represents a movement - modern design - and still continues to be the driving force behind the development, production and sale of furniture and accessories for people around the world, for life, work and public use.
The founder of Vitra, Willi Fehlbaum, first came across the creations of Ray and Charles Eames in the early 1950s. This decisive moment marked the beginnings of Vitra as a design company. Vitra has since collaborated with international designers and architects. While the first generation laid the commercial foundations of the company and the second added a cultural dimension through the development of the Vitra Campus and the Vitra Design Museum with its collection, The third generation focuses on sustainable thinking and action.
