Once again
I had a chance to visit the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, just across
the border from Basel , Switzerland
We’ve been
having beautiful weather with lots of light and sunshine, as a kind of
preliminary to the exhibition, and Wednesday afternoon I took the chance while my
son and husband went for a bit of soccer practice.
I did not remember seeing
this lamp outside the museum on my last visit, but it certainly fits the topic
of the exhibition.
The exhibit
includes a lot of information about the cultural importance of light for
humankind, and especially the western world. This is illustrated by the number
of different kinds of light bulbs shown in one of the cases:
And in the
full-wall-sized composite photo of the world at night, clearly indicating the
different degrees of distribution of light across the countries. It looked very
much like this photo, which, however, was taken from here.
Access to
sources of light at night certainly is an indicator of participation in
economic wealth!
A display
of numerous types of lamps through the 150 years of history of electric light,
and the changeover from the light bulb to LEDs gives a historic overview.
This is
enriched by several interesting pieces of light art.
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| Christian Haag, Ropes |
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| Chris Frazer, Slant |
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| Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation |
The
exhibition is on display until January – it is definitely worth a visit! They
have several events and workshops scheduled, too.
How I would
love to go to the workshop on Redesign – objects made from recycling. What a
pity that we live so far away.
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