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Vitra has manufactured furniture designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Building on this foundation over the years, the company has developed a wide range of furnishings for the office, for the home and for public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers.
 
Yet Vitra is more than just a design-oriented manufacturing company. The name also stands for the Vitra Design Museum, for a collection of modern furniture and its accompanying archive, for workshops and publications on topics of design, and for an architectural concept that unites buildings by Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA at the Vitra Headquarters in Birsfelden (Switzerland) and on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).
 
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Designer

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Shiro Kuramata, born 1934 in Tokyo, studied architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology before training as a cabinetmaker at the Kuwasawa Institute of Design in Tokyo. He worked for the firm San-Ai from 1957-64 and founded his own firm, Kuramata Design Office, in Tokyo in 1965. During the 1970s he focussed his attention increasingly on furniture design. With pieces for Memphis in Milan, among others, Kuramata's designs drew a great deal of attention, particularly due to the unusual selection and combination of materials. He worked closely with Issey Miyake during the 1980s, creating several boutiques for the fashion designer. Shiro Kuramata died in Tokyo in 1991.
 
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