Vitra commenced in Basel in Weil am Rhein in the year 1957, when the company’s founders, Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, began to produce furniture by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. Today they continue to manufacture these furniture classics, and are still at home in the metropolitan region of Basel. Yet over the years the Vitra project has come to embrace many more things. Vitra works with designer from around the world producing amazing furniture pieces and accessories for the home, office and outdoors.
