Vitra Schaudepot
Hidden below a 1960s sawtooth factory building on the Vitra Campus is a 5,000 sqm large, 3.5 m high basement area, which for years has been used to store a steadily growing number of chairs, armchairs, sofas and lamps originating from many different designers and manufacturers across the globe. This collection of items, owned by the Vitra Design Museum and dating from 1800 to the present, is stacked three layers high on modular wood and metal racks. This minimally lit storeroom is not open to the public: the purely functional storage layout is entirely unsuitable for presenting the collection in a manner appropriate to its significance. It was, however, the client’s wish to provide public access to part of the collection in a new space and, at the same time, to rethink the storeroom concept. How Best to Store? (Interior) We visited this basement on several occasions, always in search of inspiration for a better and more appropriate way of displaying the furniture items. For a long time, we considered the creation of a large open space for various activities to be the best solution. The large space concept was good, but we had to find a way of displaying the furniture.
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