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Fictional Apartment by Studio Ilse

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

London-based Studio Ilse decked out the loft space at the Herzog & de Meuron-designed VitraHaus showroom in Weil am Rhein, Germany, using furniture by Vitra and Artek.

Vitra, a Swiss family-owned furniture company, bought the Finnish Artek in September last year, and thought it would be perfect to bring their products together in one space. But instead of an impersonal showroom, they reimagined the loft as a lived-in apartment for a fictional Finnish-German couple, Harri and Astrid, a musician and set designer taken with “objects that tell the story of their lives.” Among them, a metal-rod Potence lamp by Jean Prouvé, prints that evoke the colourful, geometric mobiles of Alexander Calder and the Stool 60 and Paimio Armchair 41 by Modernist architect Alvar Aalto, who co-founded Artek in 1935.

 

“We wanted to think beyond the furniture and lighting and beyond the bland commercialisation of design, to convey real life in all its layers and eccentricities,” designer Ilse Crawford of the eponymous Studio Ilse told Dezeen magazine.

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

Studio Ilse Vitra Artek

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