VitraHaus
A new building has been added to the Vitra Campus. The VitraHaus lies in close proximity to the Swiss border and the furniture manufacture's Basel headquarters. Here the Vitra Home Collection is shown. The furnishings and objects are arranged in a variety of settings for both living and working: classics by Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton are combined with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others. With the VitraHaus, there is a sense of "homecoming" not only with regard to the architects, but also in the building concept. Herzog & de Meuron make reference to the archetypal form of the gabled house, which is found in residential structures around the globe. They have stretched this basic form and combined a series of "houses" in an intersecting stack.
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