Word: vitra
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...what constitutes best of show. Nonetheless, Williams came back with some winners. Universally loved was the tree-branch chandelier designed by Tord Boontje using Swarovski crystal. Williams selected only one of Milan's reissues: the "bad-tempered chair," designed by Ron Arad and made of carbon fiber by Vitra, was originally launched by Vitra as the "well-tempered" chair and made of stainless steel in the 1987. Also of interest at the V&A is the section titled "One Designer's Fair," a look at a variety of items by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, including a patterned black table that...
...those who crave order on a smaller scale, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is sending over some of its extensive collection of 20th century furniture to the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. While reproductions can be seen in the increasing number of midcentury furniture stores around the U.S., there's nothing like an original Arne Jacobsen to set design pulses racing...
...built work, while not numerous, has won her public and academic acclaim internationally. The Vitra Fire Station in Rhein, Germany and the Mind Zone at the Millenium Dome in London are her most well-known works to date. Both include numerous non-right angles and cantilevered surfaces...
...Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first major American art institution to be designed by a woman--let alone a woman born in Baghdad--has a construction starting date of December. A garden exhibition center in Weil am Rhein in Germany, her second building for furniture manufacturer Vitra, opened last month. And Hadid was just named the winner of a worldwide competition for a contemporary-art center in Rome, beating out such highly regarded designers as Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas...