Welcome to Vitra world

Its home features a ‘collage’ of buildings from some of the world’s great architects and hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, while its Chairman Emeritus talks of a mission to use design to change the world for the better: at Swiss furniture company Vitra, ‘brand purpose’ is not just glib marketing speak. Patrick Burgoyne visits the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein and talks to Chief Design Officer Eckart Maise about its creative process and the company’s longstanding marriage of culture and commerce