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Miniatures Collection | Vitra Design Museum

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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 Bauhaus and New Objectivity, from Radical Desi

For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has produced one-sixth-scale replicas of the most consequential chairs in furniture history. The Miniatures Collection spans the full arc of industrial design, from the ornamental complexity of Historicism and Art Nouveau through the disciplined geometry of the Bauhaus, and onward through Radical Design, Postmodernism, and the present day. Each piece is faithful to its original in every dimension that matters. The natural grain of the wood is preserved. Screws are reproduced exactly. Traditional handicraft techniques are honored where the…

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