10 years ago today, we celebrated the opening of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies!
Today we launch the digital archives! We have joined Google Arts & Culture as a partner to share the archives virtually.
You can see over 900 images from the archives and view of our galleries. As well as stories highlighting the work of the Vignellis and the designers who collaborated with them.
And this is just the beginning! We'll be adding to the the page regularly. Please take a look around and let us know what you think.
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Knoll Gavina Showroom, 1968. Designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli
In 1968, Knoll Inc. acquired Gavina SpA, an Italian furniture company started in 1960 by Dino Gavina to represent emerging Italian modernists and, in 1962, acquired the rights to produce iconic designs by Marcel Breuer. Designers in the Gavina Group: Cini Boeri, Marcel Breuer, Kazuhide Takahama, Sebastian Matta, Tobia Scrapa, and Vigo Magistretti.
To celebrate this acquisition, Massimo and Lella Vignelli designed a temporary showroom for the collection at Knoll.
Here’s how Massimo Vignelli describes it in “Designed by: Lella Vignelli” his publication dedicated to his wife’s often overlooked design contributions. [available on our website as a free PDF]
“We bisected the space with supergraphic neon signs showing the designers names in different colors, sandwiched between two walls of sheer fabric. We then hung the classic furniture on the walls, therefore reversing the hierarchy of planes to provide a different perspective of the classic products, while the new Gavina furniture remained on the floor. The walls and the floor were white, illuminated only by the color of the neon lights. This was one of several installations we designed by using neon as a source of color within a neutral space. It is a simple, but dramatic, device.”
35mm slides of Knoll Gavina Group showroom
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Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
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If you've been in the gallery lately, you might have noticed something happening. A brand new Vignelli poster display! Please stop by and take a look!
If you cant make it to Rochester Institute of Technology dont worry! We'll share more about the posters and the new display soon.
Huge thank you to the University Gallery at RIT for installing it!
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RIT College of Art and Design
Happy #InternationalBeerDay!
Suntory beer packaging prototypes by Michael Bierut at Vignelli Associates.
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