100 masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection. [Exhibition, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, July 10, 1995-January 21, 1996.]

Pictorial wrappers with flaps. As new. Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, 1996. 4to. 272 pp. Richly illustrated, largely in full-page colour. The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany, near Basel, Switzerland. The museum building is by Frank Gehry. The museum's collection, focusing on furniture and interior design, is centered on the bequest of U.S. designers Charles and Ray Eames, as well as numerous works of designers such as George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, Verner Panton, Dieter Rams, Jean Prouvé, Richard Hutten and Michael Thonet. It is one of the world's largest collections of modern furniture design, including pieces representative of all major periods and styles from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards.