Vitra Key Ranges
Vitra's collection is built around some of the most significant design collaborations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From the Eames Office to Jean Prouvé's industrial precision, each range tells a distinct story. Here are the key collections to know.
Eames Lounge Chair
Designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1956, the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman remains one of the most recognisable and coveted pieces of furniture ever made. Moulded plywood shells, leather upholstery and a quietly enveloping form — it has lost none of its authority in seven decades. Available in a range of leather colours and wood veneers.
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Eames Icons
Beyond the Lounge Chair, Charles and Ray Eames created a body of work that spans plastic side chairs, fibreglass armchairs, wire chairs and storage units. The Eames Icons collection brings together the most enduring pieces from this extraordinary partnership — designs that defined mid-century modernism and continue to feel entirely contemporary.
Eames Accessories
The Eames Office produced far more than furniture — toys, textiles, films and objects that reflected Charles and Ray's boundless curiosity. Vitra's Eames Accessories collection preserves some of the most beloved of these pieces, from the Hang-It-All coat rack to the iconic Eames Elephant.
Panton Chair
Designed by Verner Panton in 1959 and first produced in 1967, the Panton Chair was the world's first single-material, single-form injection-moulded chair. Its sinuous, cantilevered silhouette remains one of the boldest statements in twentieth-century design. Available in a wide range of colours.
Verner Panton
Beyond the chair that bears his name, Verner Panton created a vivid, psychedelic body of work that pushed the boundaries of colour, form and material. This collection brings together a broader selection of Panton's designs for Vitra — furniture and objects that remain as provocative today as when they were first conceived.
Aluminium Group
Designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958, the Aluminium Group was originally created for the private home of Irwin Miller. Its sling seat — fabric or leather suspended between two aluminium side rails — was a radical departure from conventional upholstery. Today it remains Vitra's definitive executive chair, equally at home in a boardroom or a home office.
Soft Pad Group
A refined evolution of the Aluminium Group, the Soft Pad replaces the sling seat with individually padded cushion sections for enhanced comfort over long periods. The same elegant aluminium frame, with a warmer, more upholstered presence — a natural choice for those who spend long hours at their desk.
Standard Chair
Designed by Jean Prouvé in 1934, the Standard Chair takes its name from its guiding principle: that the legs bearing the most weight should be the strongest. The result is an asymmetric form of quiet ingenuity — a dining and stacking chair that has been in continuous production for nearly a century.
Jean Prouvé Collection
Jean Prouvé was an engineer as much as a designer — a man who believed that the way something was made should be visible in its form. Vitra's Prouvé collection brings together his most significant furniture designs, from the Standard Chair and Guéridon table to the Fauteuil de Salon. Pieces of extraordinary rigour and character.
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HAL
Designed by Jasper Morrison, HAL is Vitra's most versatile dining and meeting chair — available in wood, tube steel, rope and upholstered versions to suit almost any context. Its understated, considered form makes it one of the most quietly successful chairs in the Vitra range.
Repos & Grand Repos
Designed by Antonio Citterio, the Repos and Grand Repos are Vitra's most generous lounge chairs — deeply reclined, fully upholstered and built around a mechanism that allows the seat and back to move in perfect synchrony with the body. The Grand Relax adds an integrated footrest for complete repose.
Akari Light Sculptures
Created by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi from the 1950s onwards, the Akari light sculptures are among the most poetic objects in the Vitra collection. Hand-crafted from washi paper and bamboo ribbing, each shade casts a warm, diffused light that transforms a room. Noguchi described them as ‘the light of the future’ — and they remain as quietly extraordinary today as when he first made them.
