Vitra is presenting hundreds of items from its archives at an exhibition during Milan design week. Curator Robert Stadler has revealed his favourite pieces, including Verner Panton's Living Tower, and a cork chair by Jasper Morrison.
Typecasting is currently on show as part of this year's Milan design week. The exhibition has taken over a huge space in the city's Brera district, named La Pelota.
Stadler has grouped hundreds of furniture pieces from Vitra's archives into what he describes as "characters" ? each representing a different human behaviour or habit.
They include: the communals, the compulsive organisers, the slashers (people who are combining professions), the dreamers, the beauty contestants, the spartans, the restless, the athletes and the dating-site encounters. "The idea behind this way of grouping is that the exhibition should tell something about us as people, not just the furniture presented," Stadler told Dezeen. "It gives a different insight into well-known objects."
"I went through an intensive course of Vitra, I found many things I'd never seen," he added. "We wanted a 'transhistorical' approach, so each community has historical and current items."
From the 200 objects on show, here are eight of Stadler's highlights:

MVS Chaise by Maarten van Severen
The MVS Chaise was designed by Maarten van Severen, whose collaboration with Vitra began in 1996.
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