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60s 606 is 50: a shelving system reaches its 50th birthday
9 September 2010
Designed back in 1960 by a 28-year-old Dieter Rams, the 606 Universal Shelving System has achieved an important milestone: 50 years of continuous production by Vitsœ. A significant exhibition showing examples of the earliest production of the shelving system runs at Vitsœ, 3-5 Duke Street, London from 18 September to 16 October.
The exhibition, which is being hosted with the support of The Geffrye Museum, includes rare – and previously unseen in public – examples of the shelving system of impeccable provenance. In turn, they are juxtaposed with the shelving system of today to show differences of detail but also that it is very much the same species, still able to breed with itself.
A refreshing contrast with the headlong pursuit of “What’s new?” in a world that should be taking fewer risks with its future, not more.
Image: Dieter Rams’s first sketch including a shelving system, 1955.
Vitsœ
3-5 Duke Street
London W1U 3ED
18 September-16 October
Monday-Saturday 1000-1800