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Work wherever you want!
Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands

by Thomas Wagner

Work wherever you want!<br>Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands
You will search in vain for a new paradigm or new typologies of work at the Orgatec 2010. Instead, people are busy working away at furniture systems that enable the temporary privacy of retreat in the midst of the open field of omnipresent communication.
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George Nelson or design as a system

George Nelson or design as a system
Alongside Charles and Ray Eames, designer and architect George Nelson rates as one of the formative representatives of American design in the second half of the 20th century. He would have turned 100 this year - an occasion which the Vitra Design Museum has seized to devote a first, comprehensive retrospective to his oeuvre.

News & Stories | Orgatec 2012

Why the office is what it is

by Mathias Remmele

Why the office is what it is
Cell offices and cubicles are considered negative examples of office design. The era of what we would today regard as the human office started with the “Citizen Office”. Concepts such as the “Net'n'Nest” symbolize the attempt to combine networking and concentrated work. So will we in future work in a kind of adventure playground for adults?
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Systems as a matter of principle

by Daniel von Bernstorff

Systems as a matter of principle
He was an architect, designer, author and teacher all at once. A visit to the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, which pays homage to George Nelson, who would have been a hundred this year, with a huge retrospective exhibition.

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The friendly Modern Age - a book review

by Thomas Wagner

The friendly Modern Age - a book review
More than a company history: “Projekt Vitra 1957-2007” - "Projekt Vitra" is the self-representation of a successful company. And yet the book, with its intelligent essays, with its products arranged like families for a wedding photo, with historical and contemporary pictures and documents, is more than a corporate history.