Vipp becomes VIP: a trash can enters the MoMA

Danish designer Holger Nielsen's Vipp trash can dating from 1939 has been admitted into the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where it will be displayed alongside works of the likes of Tom Dixon, Charles & Ray Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Mies van der Rohe, and Zaha Hadid.

The rubbish bin, available in white, black and stainless steel for €235, proves that one man's trash can be another man's treasure, finding its way into one of the most significant permanent design collections in the world.

Vip collaborated with some of the world's leading figures in fashion, art, and design to create one-of-a-kinds of the bin for its 70th anniversary last year. The designs by fashion designers Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta as well as singer Yoko Ono, photographer Nigel Barker and topmodel Helena Christensen, among others, went under the hammer in October to benefit Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA).

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