Month: January 2017
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Alexander Girard at Vitra Design Museum
This is the third post on what we saw at the Vitra Campus. The Vitra Design Museum is one of the publicly accessible building on the Campus. A major retrospective – “Alexander Girard – A Designer’s Universe” was installed when we visited. Much of what is written below came from their web site which is…
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VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein
VitraHaus is Vitra’s flagship store on the Campus. One can see, touch, compare, test, and buy all of Vitra’s home and office furniture offerings here. We visited the Campus last year and this is the second of four posts. See the Campus overview here. Most of what is written below came from their web site…
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Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein
Last year, IT and I went to visit the Vitra Campus – located just across the Swiss-German border in Weil am Rhein. Much of what is written below came from their web site which is very informative. They also have a great drone video of the campus here. The Vitra Campus comprises a public and a…
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Our trips 2016, part 2
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our second post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. I(Chris) had the good fortune of having visited the capitals of 6 countries – Japan, Italy, Russia, Korea, Spain…
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Our trips 2016, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Click on links, where provided to read more about the places of interest. There are usually…