We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Names such as Ray and Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier all make an appearance, as do movements like Art Nouveau and Classical Modernism. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The Atlas of Furniture Design is a valuable resource for collectors and scholars alike, with its handsome appearance also ensuring that it will appeal to design enthusiasts in general.

The furniture collection of the Vitra Design Museum comprises more than 20,000 artefacts, around 7000 of which are pieces of furniture. The project has involved a team of over 70 authors and features roughly 2,595 images, from high-quality object photographs to reproductions of historical documents such as brochures, patents, interiors or reference works in art or architecture. The Atlas of Furniture Design is a treasure trove that offers not only definitive information about beloved staples of design history, but also new, fresh and often unexpected perspectives, all presented in a generous format that captures the breadth and depth of this important subject. In the beginning of November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum published a comprehensive overview on the history of modern furniture design.That's correct, the primary source for the Atlas of Furniture Design was the collection of the Vitra Design Museum. In addition to this the book also includes an extensive appendix of designer biographies, bibliographies and glossaries of manufacturers.

In November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum publishes the »Atlas of Furniture Design«, a new comprehensive overview on the history of modern furniture design.

Atlas of Furniture Design, published by the Vitra Design Museum, provides an in-depth exploration in the history of modern furniture design.

With more than 1,000 pages, the »Atlas« is the most extensive book ever to be published on the topic.Mateo Kries, director of the Vitra Design Museum and editor of the book, answers the most important questions. The collection is made up of pieces from key periods in design history and by the most significant designers and manufacturers of the past 200 years, including early industrial furniture in bentwood or metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist objects, works by such protagonists of classical modernism as Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, Charlotte Perriand and Marcel Breuer, postwar figures such as Finn Juhl, Eero Saarinen and Achille Castiglioni, and postmodern and contemporary designers like Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders and Konstantin Grcic, as well as the estates of design legends such as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, George Nelson and others. In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design.