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2 unusual facts about Weil am Rhein


Alejandro Aravena

He designed the Colegio Huelquen Montessori, the Casa para una Escultora (House for a Sculptor), Casa en el lago Pirehueico (House en the side of Pirehueico, the new offices of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, art workshops on the Vitra campus at Weil am Rhein, Villa en Ordos Inner Mongolia (Villa in Ordos Inner Mongolia) and projects for the Elemental initiative.

Weil am Rhein

The duc de Villars crossed the Rhine here in October 1702 to fight the Battle of Friedlingen during the War of the Spanish Succession.


Richard Hutten

Hutten's work is part of the permanent collections of the Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Three Countries Bridge

The Three Countries Bridge (German: Dreiländerbrücke, French: La passerelle des Trois Pays) is an arch bridge which crosses the Rhine between the commune of Huningue (France) and Weil am Rhein (Germany), within the Basel (Switzerland) metropolitan area.


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Galerie Patrick Seguin

The gallery distributes the work of designers and architects Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Jean Royère, and is often called on to contribute to exhibitions in such museums as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, MoMA in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris.

Ingo Maurer

; Ingo Maurer: Light - Reaching for the Moon. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2003