Designer. period. exclamation point! I used to call myself an interior designer, an environmental designer, so many labels that just never seemed to fit. Everything seemed so limiting. I just love good design be it interiors, furniture, products or graphics. Good design is more than just physical items, its also systems, information management and how people interact. Design is exciting because life itself is design driven. Design generates value. In this world where the future is only a day away, it is designers that are leading the way forward. Perhaps Sir Ernest Hall said it best, "Design is about demonstrating how beautiful something can be. It has a very profound capacity. Design is a way of changing life and influencing the future."

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Vitra Unveils Its Stunning New Museum Designed by Herzog & deMeuron

BY CLIFF KUANGMon Feb 22, 2010
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The German furniture-maker maker adds another jewel to its starchitect-studded corporate campus.

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The Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is already a mecca for contemporary architecture, featuring a design museum by Frank Gehry, a conference center by Tadao Ando, and another building on the way by SANAA. And they've just finished what might be the greatest of them of them all: a new building, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, to showcase the company's home-furniture collection.

Herzog & de Meuron--who made a global splash in 2008 with their "Bird's Nest" stadium for the Beijing Olympics--conceived of the building as an "ur-house." The individual volumes take the form of generic, A-frame houses, which are then stacked on top of each--creating an architectural symbol of Vitra's actual business, selling high-design through mass production.
There are 12 houses in all, and the stacking of them
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[For more stunning images by Iwan Baan, check out Arch Daily]
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