Pre-owned Vitra furniture

HFOC is Australia's premier marketplace for pre-owned designer furniture, and we frequently list authentic second-hand Vitra pieces. Browse chairs, tables and lounge seating from the Swiss family firm that brought the Eames and Nelson designs to Europe and built a museum to design itself. Each piece is priced well below buying new.

About Vitra

Willi and Erika Fehlbaum founded Vitra in 1950, near Basel, Switzerland. It began as a shopfitting business, and the name comes from the display vitrines it made. After seeing designs by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Herman Miller in New York in 1953, Willi Fehlbaum negotiated a manufacturing agreement, and from 1957 Vitra produced them under licence in Europe.

When the licence ended in 1984, Vitra acquired the rights to the Eames and Nelson designs for Europe and the Middle East. Its first original product was Verner Panton's single-piece plastic cantilever chair, produced from 1967. After a fire in 1981 destroyed much of the production facilities, the Weil am Rhein site was rebuilt, and it became the Vitra Campus. The Vitra Design Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, was completed in 1989 and was his first building in Europe. Vitra remains family-run, with Nora Fehlbaum as CEO, succeeding her father Rolf.

Why buy Vitra second-hand? These are designs with decades of demand behind them, so a well-kept piece holds its appeal. Buying through HFOC gets you the original at a price well below retail. Delivery is available across all Australian metros.

Sell your Vitra furniture

Have an Eames chair or other Vitra piece you no longer need? Sell with us and we'll list it to buyers who are already searching for it.