The Vitra Design Museum is showing Night Fever – the first comprehensive exhibition on the design history and cultural context of nightclubs
Submitted at Jun 29, 2018, 3:54 PM
Nightclubs and clubs are the centers of contemporary culture. Since the 1960s, they have been the hubs of the avant-garde, questioning the established codes of social life and experimenting with different realities. The Vitra Design Museum is showing the first comprehensive exhibition on the history of design and the cultural context of nightclubs. 
According to designer Konstantin Grcic, who designed the exhibition, the Haçienda in Manchester was the club that made the biggest impression on him personally. In the early 1990s, it was the hub of the city's rave scene. The club was a large warehouse with a painted light blue, which designer Ben Kelly transformed into a massive urban stage using bollards and hazard warning signs from construction zones. 
The Italian scene was not left out either. The exhibition presents nightclubs designed by architects associated with Radical Design, an avant-garde architectural movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. These clubs stand out as experiments in what participatory architecture can be. and released could achieve at the time, and are also notable for their multidisciplinary and multimedia nature. 
The exhibition runs until September 9th at the Vitra Design Museum in Well am Rhein, Germany.
