Vitra Miniature Furniture
Miniature Modern Furniture by Vitra
Scale miniatures of the most important pieces of furniture in design history: Featuring creations by the icons of modern design such as Eames, Nelson, Breuer; more, the miniature classics from the Vitra Design Museum are exemplerary teaching objects with regard to quality and craftsmanship. Ideal academic or skilled trade demonstration pieces, the miniaures also make unique collector's items and gifts. Each Vitra miniature comes in a wooden box with a brochure providing art-historical information on the background to the design, biography of the designer, and the production history of the respective chair.
3 Legged Chair
$240.00
Originally introduced in 1963 by Hans J. Wegner the 3 Legged Chair (3-Benet Skalstol) was only produced in limited series until being relaunched in 1997 to much fanfare. Now a Vitra Miniature Classic from the iconic Danish designer.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.75 x 6 x 5 "
Aluminum Chair
$665.00
An instantly recognizable design classic, the Aluminum Chair is part of the iconic Aluminum Group series of furniture designed by Ray & Charles Eames for the Herman Miller company in 1958.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.5 x 4 x 3 "
Antony Chair
$290.00
Designed by Jean Prouvé in 1950, the Antony Chair has been recreated by the Vitra Design Museum in faithful miniature form.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.75 x 3.25 x 4.5 "
Art. 41 Paimio
$240.00
Designed by Alvar Aalto in 1930, the Art. 41 "Paimo" Chair has been faithfully recreated in miniature form by the Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4 x 4 x 5.75 "
B3 Wassily Chair
$290.00
Originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 for the house of painter Wassily Kandinsky, a Bauhaus teacher from 1922-1933. The B3 did not take on the name "Wassily" until the sixties when Italian furniture producer Dino Gavina purchased the manufacturing rights. Made with nickel-plated tubular steel and black leather.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.75 x 5 x 4.5 "
Ball Chair
$355.00
From 1965, Eero Aarnio's Ball Chair design was a typical symbol of optimistic popular culture in the 60's. A gleaming, polished sphere from the outside, from the inside the Ball Chair is comfortable and protected.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 8.25 x 7.5 x 6.75 "
Big Easy Chair
$770.00
From Ron Arad's 1988 Big Easy armchair series of innovative pieces made using bent sheet steel welded at the edges. Hollow black steel construction.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelChair: 6.75 x 8.5 x 5 "
Bocca
$270.00
The Bocca sofa was designed in 1970 by Studio 65 as an homage to Salvador Dali's earlier Mae West sofa of 1936. Stretchy upholstery over polyurethane foam.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.75 x 14 x 5.25 "
Butterfly Stool Mini
$185.00
The Butterfly Stool by Sori Yanagi was designed in 1954 and crafted using the Eames technique for bending plywood. Full size version also available.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 2.75 x 3 x 2.25 "
Chaise Lounge
$530.00
From the 1928 design by Le Corbusier, Jeanneret & Perriland, the Chaise longue à réglage continu is an icon of modern style faithfully recreated as a miniature by the Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4 x 3.5 x 10.5 "
Coconut Chair
$315.00
Inspired by the coconut shell, the Coconut Chair was designed by George Nelson in 1955 and consists of fiberglass shell reinforced with upholstery. Nelson's shapes were strongly stimulated by the art of the 1950's and promoted a new, very casual form of sitting.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.5 x 6.25 x 5.75 "
Diamond Chair
$315.00
Designed in 1952 by Harry Bertoia as part of five wire pieces for Hans & Florence Knoll. Part of what became known as the Bertoia Collection for Knoll, the Diamond Chair is a fluid sculptural form made from a molded lattice work of welded steel.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.5 x 7.5 x 5.25 "
DKR Wire Chair
$270.00
From the Charles & Ray Eames design from 1951, the DKR or Dining Chair Bikini Rod features the iconic Eiffel tower base.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.25 x 3.25 x 3.75 "
DSW Chair
$240.00
From husband and wife designers Charles & Ray Eames, the DSW Chair was originally designed in 1950 and features wooden legs with metal cross beams.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.25 x 3 x 3.25 "
Eames Stools
$170.00
Lathe-turned stools conceived by Charles & Ray Eames to be used as small occasional tables as well as seats. Inspired by an African stool in the living room of the Eames house. This group of solid walnut stools is from the Eames development of three lobby interiors for the new Time & Life Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City. *Scale 1:6 Miniature Model Size: 2.5 x 2.25 x...
Faut. à dossier basculant
$350.00
Faithfully recreated as a miniature by the Vitra Design Museum, the Faut. à dossier basculant was created by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand in 1928.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 3.75 x 3.75 x 4.25 "
Gala Chair
$720.00
Created in 1950 by Italian architect and designer Franco Albini, the Gala Lounge Chair is made from woven cane in an exact miniature replica by Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6.25 x 5.75 x 7 "
Garden Egg
$345.00
Originally intended to be a garden chair, the Garden Egg was designed by Peter Ghyczy while working for synthetics manufacturer Elastogran/Reuter in Lemförde exploring suitable areas of application for then new and promising synthetic materials.This egg shaped object features a flat underside with folding top. When opened, the top forms the backrest, inside soft cushions for comfort. When closed, the weather-proof "shell" ensures the chair can be kept outside year...
Gartenstuhl
$270.00
Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a Prussian master builder, architect & furniture designer known as one of the major exponents of German classicism, the Gartenstuhl from 1820. Made from cast iron.Size: 88 x 133 x 81 mm*Scale 1:6 Miniature Model of the original design.
Grand Comfort
$735.00
Designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand, the Faut. à Grand Comfort is an icon of modern design and one of the most recognizable designs of the twentieth century.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.75 x 5 x 4.5 "
Greene Street Chair
$280.00
Named after a street in New York City's Soho district, the Greene Street Chair was designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1985 to address the issue of stability. Pesce wanted to represent the instability of the times, and although the chair has a superfluous amount of legs, they are spindly and give the chair movement rather than solidity.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6.25 x 3.25 x 3 "- Fiberglass reinforced polyester resin...
Heart Shaped Cone Chair
$295.00
A true modern design classic, the Heart Shaped Cone Chair was designed by Verner Panton in 1958. *Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.5 x 4 x 3 "
How High the Moon
$560.00
Made with nickel-plated steel wire mesh, How High the Moon from Shiro Kuramata was designed in 1986 from expanded steel mesh usually hidden inside the walls it supports. An intriguing choice of materials and graceful proportions combine to make a piece that appears weightless in a room, much like the moon over the horizon.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelChair: 4.25 x 6 x 5.5 "
Johnson Wax Chair
$385.00
The Johnson Wax Chair was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 for the Johnson Wax Headquarters and the "Great Workroom."*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.75 x 4 x 3 "
Karuselli Armchair
$735.00
Famously inspired by a winter day the designer spent playing in the snow with his daughter. The Karuselli Armchair was originally designed in 1964 by Yrjö Kukkapuro.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6 x 5.5 x 6.5 "
Knotted Chair
$280.00
Formed using innovative techniques developed by the designer, Marcel Wanders, the Knotted Chair is based on the traditional craft of macrame. Knitted out of high-tech fibers carbon and aramid, later drenched in epoxy resin and dried into its shape.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.5 x 3.5 x 4 "
La Chaise
$320.00
Created by Charles and Ray Eames as an entry for the "Low Cost Furniture Design" competition held by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1948, the La Chaise consists of two paper thin fiberglass shells glued to each other, but separated with rubber discs and filled with polystyrene foam. While the open space between the back and the seat is not technically necessary, the Eames' wanted a design...
La Mamma
$480.00
One of Gaetano Pesce's most alluring pieces, affectionately named 'La Mamma.' This lounge chair is a pop art icon of the late 60's, features stretch fabric with molded polyurethane foam.Designed to imitate a voluptuous yet abstract female figure, while the ball shaped ottoman is attached by a cord to symbolize the shackles that kept women subjugated.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6 x 7.5 x 9 "
Little Beaver
$350.00
Following Frank Gehry's "Easy Edges" collection of extraordinarily stable yet low-priced corrugated cardboard mass furniture, he created the "Experimental Edges" series of exclusive limited edition exhibition pieces. Although the Little Beaver Chair and Ottoman appear unfinished, they are in reality carefully designed with structures based on countless experiments.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelChair: 5.75 x 5.75 x 5.75 "Ottoman: 3 x 3.25 x 3.75 "
Lounge Chair & Ottoman
$735.00
The Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman created in 1956 by Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller is an icon of modern style and high design.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelChair: 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 "Ottoman: 2.75 x 4.25 x 3.5 "
Lounge Chair Metal
$220.00
From Ray & Charles Eames, the LCM or Lounge Chair Metal features their signature bent plywood with metal legs faithfully recreated in miniature from Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.25 x 3.75 x 4.25 "
Marshmallow Sofa
$735.00
One of the earliest "Pop Art" furniture designs, the Marshmallow Sofa was created in 1956 by George Nelson, head of the Design Department for many years at the Herman Miller company. *Scale 1:6 Miniature Model Size: 5.25 x 8.5 x 5.25 "
Mezzadro
$220.00
The Mezzadro Seat designed by Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1957 for Zanotta S.p.A., Italy is an icon of modern design. Tractor seat, composed of steel and beech wood.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.25 x 8.5 x 5.25 "
MR 20 Leather
$290.00
From the original 1927 design by Mies van der Rohe, the MR 20 chair faithfully recreated in miniature form by the Vitra Design Museum. Made with bent tubular steel and leather.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.25 x 3.5 x 5.75 "
Organic Armchair
$240.00
Designed in 1940 by Eames and Eero Saarinen as a contribution to the New York Museum of Modern Art's "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition. A creation ahead of its time, the Organic Armchair was not manufactured in large quantities until after 1950 when it became possible to create the organically shaped seat shells.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6 x 5 x 4 "
Panton Chair Mini Set
$200.00
The first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of plastic, the Panton Chair is sleek, stylish and a technical first. Set of 5 miniature replicas from Vitra Design Museum. *Scale 1:6 Miniature Model Size: 5.5 x 3.25 x 3.5 "
Plywood Elephant
$225.00
The Plywood Elephant was an early design by Ray & Charles Eames that featured their signature method of bending plywood for furniture. The tight angles and compound curves required a complex fabrication method and ultimately, the Elephant never went into production. The two prototypes were displayed at the New York Museum of Modern Art from 1945-46.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 2.75 x 2.75 x 5 "
RAR
$185.00
Designed by Charles & Ray Eames in 1948, the Rocking Armchair Rod, or RAR, was originally created in fiberglass-reinforced plastic, then updated to durable, environmentally friendly polypropylene after 30 years of being out of production.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 4.25 x 4.25 x 4.5 "
Ribbon Chair
$305.00
Features a bent tubular steel frame with foam padding covered in two way stretch fabric. Lacquered pedestal made of form pressed plywood with plastic glides. From Pierre Paulin's 1966 design.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5 x 6.75 x 4.75 "
Robie House 1
$290.00
Extra-high back chairs with vertical wooden struts formed an important part of the furniture used on the interior of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Prairie Houses" - spaces designed which called for a unity of the house's interior, external shape and natural environment.The Robie House 1 chair was designed for the dining room in the Frederick C. Robie House and features Wright's signature extra-high back and feet spread outward to lessen the...
Rood Blauwe Stoel
$255.00
Designed in 1918 by Garrit Rietveld, a radical twentieth-century artist who focused on the concept of a traditional, massive armchair and transformed it into a geometric entity, the Rood Blauwe Stoel. Made of lacquered wood.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.75 x 4.25 x 5.5 "
Schaukelsessel No 9
$735.00
The firm of Jacob & Josef Kohn introduced the Schaukelsessel No 9 rocking chair model around 1882, a design that was vastly different than anything else on the market. A double loop unites the supporting functions on either side and gives the chair an elegant and weightless appearance. Bent beechwood & cane.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 6.75 x 4.25 x 7.5 "
Selene Chair
$270.00
The Selene Chair originally designed by Vico Magistretti in 1968, authentically re-created in miniature form by the Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5 x 3 x 4.5 "
Siège Tournant
$635.00
From the 1928 design by Le Corbusier, Jeanneret & Perriland, the Siège Tournant has been faithfully recreated as a miniature by the Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5 x 4 x 3.25 "
Standard Chair Mini
$290.00
The Standard Chair was created by Jean Prouvé in 1930 in an inventive move from the tubular steel innovated by the Bauhaus movement to the use of bent pressed and compressed sheet metal that made the chair frame extremely strong while maintaining a lightweight look. *Scale 1:6 Miniature Model Size: 5.25 x 2.75 x 3.25 "
Stuhl No. 14
$230.00
Considered the typical Viennese coffee-house chair, the "No 14" armchair is one of the world's most successful mass-produced products. Using the bent-wood technique developed by Michael Thonet, where solid wood is shaped with steam pressure and formed three-dimensionally using iron molds, the Stuhl No 14 was designed in 1859/60 out of stained & lacquered beechwood & cane.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.25 x 2.75 x 3.5 "
Stuhl W1
$200.00
From the original design by Mart Stam in 1926, the Stuhl W1 faithfully recreated by the Vitra Design Museum.*Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelSize: 5.5 x 3 x 3.5 "
Tom Vac Chair
$190.00
This inventive stacking chair was designed by Ron Arad in 1999 while commissioned to produce a sculpture. The Tom Vac Chair is a popular and versatile design now widely used in restaurants, homes and offices. *Scale 1:6 Miniature ModelChair: 5 x 4.25 x 3.75 "
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