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Vitra, the furniture company, have turned to a variety of major architects to design the buildings making up their manufacturing site near Basel, close to the German/Swiss/French border. As well as Frank Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid are all represented, in a cross between an industrial plant and a model village. In the late 1980s, a palpable shift in Gehry’s aesthetic occurred with his first European commission: the design of two buildings for the manufacturing center of the Vitra furniture company. Gehry was asked to create a unified plan for a factory building that would sit adjacent to Nicholas Grimshaw’s 1981 factory, as well as a small museum to house company CEO Rolf Fehlbaum’s collection of approximately two hundred Modern and contemporary chairs.

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Museums are important cultural institutions, symbols of power, stature, and sophistication. Designed by the North American architect Frank Gehry, this unique Museum built on a 32,500 square meter site in the center of Bilbao. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum. The permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao basically includes works by the most prominent artists of the last forty years of this century.

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