Frank O Gehry Vitra Design Museum
The vitra furniture factory and the design museum in weil am rhein the vitra headquarters in birsfelden and the building on.
Frank o gehry vitra design museum. The individual elements seem to be fragmented and seem to be in motion. The focus of the collection lies on industrial furniture design and lighting in these areas the unique holdings of the museum are of international importance. This is readily apparent in his vitra design museum a small 8 000 square foot building on two floors basically for the exhibit of chairs design and educational programs. In total there are four buildings by frank gehry in the basel region.
Designed by the well known diconstructivist architect frank gehry the vitra design museum is an internationally and privately owned museum for design in weil am rhein germany. The canadian architect frank gehry founded the architecture firm frank gehry associates in los angeles in 1962. It is frank gehry s first building in europe in cooperation with the lörrach architect günter pfeifer. Vitra ceo rolf fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989.
The vitra design museum would be unthinkable without its extensive collection of design objects. From classical geometric basic forms he created a dynamic architectural sculpture. This aesthetic also influenced the emergence of deconstructivism.