Some people collect art, others live with it—the truly discerning do both. What’s better than owning an icon? Owning it twice: first as a miniature, also at full scale. Design icons deserve an encore. Want a gift that keeps on giving, gift a design icon — explore them below.
Design Icon Miniatures
Design Icons
Vitra’s Origin Story
Vitra is more than a furniture company — it is a guardian of modern design. Since 1953, when founder Willi Fehlbaum first encountered the work of Charles and Ray Eames, Vitra has nurtured collaborations with the world’s most influential designers. Each object that bears its name is an original: born of dialogue, refined through iteration, and built to last far beyond its first owner.
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany designed by Frank Gehry, stands as the company’s living archive — one of the world’s leading museums of design. Its collection and exhibitions honor visionaries like the Eameses, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Alvar Aalto, while exploring the future of technology, sustainability, and everyday culture.
That’s what makes the Vitra Miniatures Collection so compelling. These are not souvenirs. They are meticulously crafted miniatures of iconic full-scale designs — scaled down yet uncompromised, each preserving the proportion, material, and presence of the original. Together with their full-scale counterparts, they allow design lovers to live with history at two scales: one to inhabit, one to contemplate.
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