Located in Weil am Rhein, a suburb of the Swiss city of Basel in Switzerland, the new home of Vitra’s Home Collection is designed by The Basel-based architecture firm Herzog and Meuron. Jacques Herzog’s and Pierre de Meuron’s was succeed to take the ubiquitous stacked-houses concept and still make it look new, interesting and inviting. Vitra House is the latest addition to the ever-expanding Vitra Campus that started as an industrial park with the manufacturing facilities. Reaching five storeys in height and containing 12 separate houses, Vitra House is geared toward the general public, design-aware consumers who will appreciate the building as well as the Vitra products inside. The entire contraption appears both grandiose and intimate at the same time, with the gray exterior disguising the disheveled heap within the site, while the open glass-walled ends and stark, white interiors facilitate the presentation of residential-scale displays.

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