![Harf Zimmermann, from the photo series «Hufelandstrasse Berlin 1055».](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hufelandstrasse-berlin-1055-titel-300x225.jpg)
Plastic hens and Snow White’s coffin
More than 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Vitra Design Museum is showcasing German design from 1949-89. Viewed through the prism of time, both the disuniting elements and the shared features become especially apparent.
![Advertising brochure Trabant 601 Universal, 1965.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anzeige-trabant-601-universal-1965-300x106.jpg)
Von der «Formgestaltung» zum «Design»
![Willy Fleckhaus, edition suhrkamp, 1963.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/fleckhaus-edition-suhrkamp-225x300.jpg)
![Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, StereoPhonosuper «SK 6» (called «Schneewittchensarg»), 1956/60.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dieter-rams-hans-gugelot-sk-6-stereo-phonosuper-1956-60-300x174.jpg)
Parallel universes of consumerism in the 20th century
![Installation view «German Design 1949–1989: Two countries, one history».](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ausstellungsansicht-mobel-vitra-300x229.jpg)
Abundance and scarcity
![Peter Ghyczy, untitled (called «Garden Egg Chair» / «Senftenberger Egg»), 1968.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/peter-ghyczy-senftenberger-ei-rot-1968-226x300.jpg)
Designing a national identity
![Fall of the Wall in Berlin, 12 November 1989.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/tim-wegner-laif-mauerfall-berlin-1989-300x200.jpg)
Designers from the GDR in a new light
German Design 1949 – 1989
Then at the Kunstgewerbemuseum / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and at other locations.
The catalogue costs EUR 59.90 at the exhibition.