The Atlas of Furniture Design

From the Vitra Design Museum comes a 1,000-page book that delivers the most comprehensive overview of the history of furniture design ever published.

The publication documents some 1,691 objects, with 550 accompanied by detailed texts. This project involved a team of over 70 authors and features roughly 2,595 images, ranging from high-quality object photographs to reproductions of historical documents such as brochures, patents, interiors, and reference works in art or architecture.

The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the furniture collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind in the world, with more than 6,400 pieces of furniture. It includes the estates of design legends like Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, George Nelson, and others. The collection comprises pieces by the most significant designers and manufacturers of the past 200 years.

It features early industrial furniture in bentwood or metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces, protagonists of classical modernism like Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, Charlotte Perriand, or Marcel Breuer, postwar figures such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin, or Gae Aulenti, as well as postmodern and contemporary designers like Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders, or Konstantin Grcic.