Vitra AG
A family business for the past 80 years, the Swiss company Vitra collaborates with leading designers to develop innovative products and concepts for contemporary home and office environments. Joining a portfolio of furniture classics by Jean Prouvé, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Verner Panton, these products are used worldwide by architects, companies, the public sector and private individuals to build inspirational spaces for living and working. The Vitra Campus with buildings by some of the world’s leading architects and the Vitra Design Museum with its exhibitions on design and architecture, design archives and a comprehensive furniture collection are all part of Vitra. They inspire visitors, inform the design process and create an atmosphere in which innovation flourishes. Find the privacy statement at www.vitra.com/privacywww.vitra.com
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Oct 12, 2026
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This is the story of that crusade.
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From the long, lean years of near-total professional rejection to the breakthrough triumph of the Vitra Fire Station, from the heartbreaks of unbuilt masterpieces to global vindication as the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Zaha Hadid: The Fluid Line is a comprehensive exploration of a career that spanned more than forty-nine thousand words of relentless determination.
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It is the story of a pioneer who forced structural engineers to invent new technologies, turned computational parametricism into physical reality, and permanently altered the skylines of Rome, Baku, Seoul, and London, leaving behind a legacy that transformed how humanity experiences space itself.
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She waits for the wall to learn how to fracture.
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What she does not yet know, standing at that table in 1987 with paint drying under her fingernails, is that four hundred miles away, on a stretch of flat agricultural land near the German-Swiss-French border, a furniture manufacturer's campus has just burned to the ground.
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The fire had struck on the 12th of July in 1981, sparked by lightning during a summer storm, and it had swept through a significant portion of the Vitra factory complex in Weil am Rhein with a speed that left almost nothing salvageable.
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For the company's chairman, Rolf Fehlbaum, the disaster became almost immediately an opportunity disguised in ash.
Charlie RoseHOST
Tell me about this building.
Charles JencksGUEST
Well, that's another Gehry building for, uh, the Vitra Furniture, uh, Company.
Charles JencksGUEST
It's their museum of furniture display, and it shows, uh, these wonderful, again, box-like worm forms-
Charlie RoseHOST
Yeah
Jeff TowsonHOST
I don't really know these brands very well.
Jeff TowsonHOST
Swiss furniture brand Vitra, U.S. design and office furniture brand Herman Miller.
Jeff TowsonHOST
OK, I know that one.
Jeff TowsonHOST
Italian furniture brand Gervasoni.
GordonHOST
They wanted a, a set of furniture, and the Eames designed it.
GordonHOST
So although it's called the Eames Lounge Chair, it's actually Herman Miller or Vitra in Europe.
GregHOST
Mm.
GordonHOST
Um, but yeah, they're prolific.