Vitra Design Museum

Vitra Design Museum
The inception of Vitra Design Museum dates back to the early 1980s. With the aim of documenting the history of the Vitra company, Vitra chairman Rolf Fehlbaum began collecting the furniture of designers who had influenced the company’s development, such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, and Jean Prouvé. As the collection grew, so did the desire for an architectural venue in which the objects could be displayed.
In 1986, Fehlbaum developed the concept for a design museum, and in 1987 hired Frank Gehry as the architect for the museum building. That same year, Ray Eames introduced Fehlbaum to the later director of the museum Alexander von Vegesack. Together Fehlbaum and Vegesack developed the idea of a publicly operating museum from the original idea of a closed private collection.
The museum opened on November 3, 1989.


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