- Description
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Details
With its different-sized and shaped containers, its metal hooks and clips, Uten.Silo organizes offices, kitchens, workshops, bathrooms and children's rooms. Vitra Design Museum produces both the original 1969 version of Uten.Silo and a smaller one dating from 1970.
MATERIALS:
- ABS Plastic
- Hooks: Nickel-plated Metal
MEASUREMENTS:
Uten.Silo II (Small)- Width: 6.4 cm / 2 1/2 inch
- Depth: 68 cm / 26 3/4 inch
- Height: 52 cm / 20 1/2 inch
- Depth: 87 cm / 34 1/4 inch
- Height: 67 cm / 26 3/8 inch
- Width: 6.4 cm / 2 1/2 inch
- Brand
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Vitra is a Swiss company dedicated to improving the quality of homes, offices and public spaces through the power of design. Their products and concepts are developed in an intensive design process, bringing together engineering excellence with the creative genius of today’s leading international designers. It is Vitra’s goal to create furniture and accessories that are functional and inspiring. Founded in 1950, Vitra produces many products from internationally recognized designers such as Verner Panton, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen and Jasper Morrison.
- Designer
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Vitra Uten.Silo Designed by:
- Dorothee Becker , 1969
Dorothee Becker
Germany, 1939
Dorothee Becker, born 1938 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, studied languages in Frankfurt and Munich. After living for a time in London and Paris, she moved to California in 1960. She returned to Germany with her husband, Ingo Maurer, and ran a successful shop for well-designed and practical everyday objects until 1989. Becker has continued her creative activities to the present day.
Dorothee Becker's most significant design, 'Uten.Silo', became an icon of plastic design. Its genesis was something of a fortuitous event, as Becker herself describes: "In 1968, fired by the spirit of the 1968 movement, I designed a wooden toy consisting of a large piece of wood with geometrically shaped notches and matching elements.