For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has produced one-sixth-scale replicas of the most consequential chairs in furniture history. The Miniatures Collection spans the full arc of industrial design, from the ornamental complexity of Historicism and Art Nouveau through the disciplined geometry of the Bauhaus, and onward through Radical Design, Postmodernism, and the present day. Each piece is faithful to its original in every dimension that matters. The natural grain of the wood is preserved. Screws are reproduced exactly. Traditional handicraft techniques are honored where the original demanded them. The result is not a souvenir but a precise object of study, one that communicates proportion, construction logic, and material sensibility at a scale that fits in the hand. Exactly one-sixth the size of the historical originals True-to-scale recreation of construction, material, and color Produced under the authority of the Vitra Design Museum collection Spanning design movements from the late nineteenth century to today Architects and designers have long used the Miniatures Collection as a teaching tool and spatial reference. Collectors prize individual pieces for their concentrated design intelligence. Together, they form a condensed history of how we have thought about sitting.
