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Vitra Design Museum

  • Portfolio Album
    Author:
    JOhanna Keimeyer
  • Rudolf Steiner is regarded as one of the most influential – and also one of the most controversial – reformers of the twentieth century. He founded the Waldorf schools and advocated a holistic view of humanity which shows its influence in many areas of our lives today – including bio-cosmetics, a heightened environmental consciousness and biodynamic agricultural products, to name a few examples. 

    Author:
    Lisa Lehmann
  • In cooperation with Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, CIRECA has been putting on an international summer academy at Domaine de Boisbuchet since 1996. The international summer workshops are offered from July through mid-September. The courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of six to ten days.

     

    Author:
    Lisa Lehmann
  • The exhibition “The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction” illuminates the influences and motifs of a principle whose impact on design transcends time and place.

    Author:
    Anna Rojahn
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    JOhanna Keimeyer
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    Author:
    JOhanna Keimeyer
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    Author:
    JOhanna Keimeyer
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    Author:
    Mauricio Affonso
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    Author:
    Mauricio Affonso
  • Following a biographical introduction with data, photos, a filmed interview and the two chairs “Negativo” and “Positivo” that marked the start of the brothers’ collaboration, the exhibition goes on to present the oeuvre through the structuring of the work in regard to the fundamental formal and technical principles pursued by the Campanas since the beginning of their partnership.

     

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    Vitra Design Museum