info@vitra.com | EN 2015
www.vitra.com/miniatures
For over two decades, the Vitra Design
Museum has been making miniature
replicas of milestones in furniture design
from its collection. The Miniatures
Collection encapsulates the entire history
of industrial furniture design – moving
from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the
New Objectivity of Bauhaus and Radical
Design, and from Postmodernism all the
way up to the present day. Exactly one
sixth of the size of the historical originals,
the chairs are all true to scale and
precisely recreate the smallest details of
construction, material and colour. The
high standard of authenticity even
Miniatures Collection
Vitra Design Museum , 1820 - 2008
Miniatures Collection
extends to the natural grain of the wood,
the reproduction of screws and the
elaborate handicraft techniques involved.
This has made the miniatures into popular
collector‘s items as well as ideal illustrati-
ve material for universities, design schools
and architects.
