For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of milestones in furniture design from its collection.‎ The Miniatures Collection encapsulates the entire history of industrial furniture design – moving from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the New Objectivity of Bauhaus and Radical Design, and from Postmodernism all the way up to the present day.‎ Exactly one sixth of the size of the historical originals, the chairs are all true to scale and precisely recreate the smallest details of construction, material and colour.‎ The high standard of authenticity even extends to the natural grain of the wood, the reproduction of screws and the elaborate handicraft techniques involved.‎ This has made the miniatures into popular collector‘s items as well as ideal illustrative material for universities, design schools and architects.‎