The Essence of Things

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

Design and the Art of Reduction. The exhibition 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, 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.

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It is in the nature of human beings to seek the simplest solution. In fact, the idealism of "edle Einfalt” (noble simplicity) and "stille Größe” (quiet grandeur) pre-dates classicism, and the "less is more” principle of modern design has remained a guiding notion through the postmodernist era up to the present.

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. Despite all the rationalisation of method and material, concentration on functional essentials and abstraction of shape up to the very disappearance of things, the principle of simplicity demonstrates its great complexity.

Vernissage: 19.03.2010 20.00h

Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Str. - Weil am Rhein
Hours: Monday through Sunday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m
Admission: Museum EUR 8,00, reduced price EUR 6,50, children under 12 years of age free
Guided architectural tour: EUR 9,50 (Duration: 2 hours)
Combination ticket (museum + guided architectural tour); EUR 13,50, reduced price EUR 11,50

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