Vitra has manufactured furniture designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Building on this foundation over the years, the company has developed a wide range of furnishings for the office, for the home and for public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers.

    Yet Vitra is more than just a design-oriented manufacturing company. The name also stands for the Vitra Design Museum, for a collection of modern furniture and its accompanying archive, for workshops and publications on topics of design, and for an architectural concept that unites buildings by Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA at the Vitra Headquarters in Birsfelden (Switzerland) and on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).

To make appropriate reference to this wide spectrum of activities, we speak of Vitra as a project.

Founded
    1950, as a family-owned company
Management
    Hanns-Peter Cohn, (CEO) Chief Executive Officer

        * Manfred Meier, (COO) Chief Operation Officer
        * Ivan Bosin, (CFO) Chief Financial Officer
        * Patrick Guntzburger, (CSO) Chief Sales Officer
        * David Allemann, (CMO) Chief Marketing Officer

Board of Directors

        * Rolf Fehlbaum (Chairman)
        * Raymond Fehlbaum
        * Uli Sigg
        * Detlev Meyer

Headquarters
    Birsfelden near Basel (CH)
Production Sites

        * Weil am Rhein (D)
        * Neuenburg (D)
        * Allentown (USA)
        * Zhuhai (RC)

National companies

        * Austria,
        * Belgium,
        * China,
        * Czech Republic,
        * England,
        * France,
        * Germany,
        * Hungary,
        * Mexico,
        * Netherlands,
        * Norway,
        * Singapore,
        * Spain,
        * Switzerland,
        * USA

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