GlassLab on the Vitra campus. International designers will present design performances each day
The Vitra Design Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass will partner together during Art Basel to provide GlassLab on the Vitra campus. International designers will present design performances each day. In the Vitra museum the exhibition "The Essence of things" illuminates the influences and motifs of a principle whose impact on design transcends time and place. The diversity of this phenomenon is documented in such examples as the legendary Thonet chair No. 14, furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata and Jasper Morrison up to the iPod. In the exhibition, these objects will be complemented by photos from the fields of architecture, fashion and art. The program of the performances on the web site.