Vitra - Classic Tray - China Shop

 

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The Classic Trays from Vitra are a series of high quality trays that beautify the own home as a lovely accessory as well as they enrich the furnishing with a pretty detail. The tray “China Shop” shows stylish kitchen appliances. George Nelson designed the playful tray.

The Vitra Classic Tray “China Shop” consists of high quality thermosetting plastic and it is dishwasher safe and food-safe. This is why it is perfectly suitable as a practical household object that helps every day, not only as a decorative accessory.

Background of the classic trays is the awareness that the quality of a living furnishing is not only shown in the larger items. For the emotional connection to your home just the small things play a great role; the different accessories, pictures, plants, memories and findings that are gathered there.

In the past decade this perception was only given to few designers. Alexander Girard is one of them, as well as Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson. They all created designs in which the small details always formed an important part in the middle of the 20th century.

Design: George Nelson

For a person born in Hartford, the insurance capital of America, George Nelson would become one of the greatest risk takers in the history of design. In fact he would come to redefine what a designer is. After graduating Hartford Public High school in 192 Designer George Nelson