Cologne, January, 14-20, 2013
The Belgian design brand Extremis is introducing a new collection called “Marina” in spring 2012. Showstopper of the new collection is an extra-large picnic table by Bruno Fattorini & Partners. The longest version of the picnic set can seat up to 40 people.
How can you eat healthily at work while taking as little time as possible? And how can you celebrate preparing and eating food in a hectic life in style? Ying Ying Ni, an up-and coming industrial designer from China, has investigated this question – and has developed a new concept for a mobile steam cooking unit as part of the Phoenix Design Academy. more…
Textiles in restaurants, bars or hotels not only have to fulfil numerous functions, they have to exude a pleasantly cosy atmosphere and reflect the identity of the establishment as well. Besides offering a wide choice of curtain and furnishing fabrics in numerous colours and materials, Création Baumann’s range also features fabrics with special functions such as blackout or sound absorption properties.
In honour of Ferdinand Kramer e15 presents a collection of re-editions of the renowned German architect and designer. Working closely with Kramer’s family and the archives, e15 debuts eight iconic designs from various creative periods, beginning from 1925 to 1959. Ferdinand Kramer, born in 1998 in Frankfurt, Germany, was one of the famous functionalist designers.
All over the world, a growing number of consumers are using technical products in their bathrooms – from MP3 players over flatscreens all the way to computers and online services. Certainly the technology won’t stop at sanitary products. Rarely has the bathroom industry experienced a wave of innovation to match the current advance of electronic products into the domestic sector. The technologies recently introduced into private bathrooms herald an improvement in day-to-day life and stand for a new generation of products that focus firmly on their users’ needs.
In view of demographic developments, the future task of modern bathroom design will be to make life easier for as many people as possible. The new, barrier-free bathroom pursues the idea of “Universal Design” and is also convenient, versatile and smart. In this field Hewi has built a reputation.
The Kya barstool from young furniture brand Frei Frau is more than just an innovative solution for a typical pub stool. According to its designers Eva Paster and Michael Geldmacher (Neuland), it looks just as much at home in the leather-dominated setting of a swish historic hotel bar as it does in the understated clarity of an urban bar or even a modern private interior. more…
The idea to create furniture by his own is more than ten years old. Already during his study of fashion design Christian Dorn works as a product designer and designs inter alia for Mövenpick terrace chairs. His next stops are in the design team at the fashion lable s.Oliver and Aliseo, an international hotel supplier. In 2011 Dorn founded the design studio Stiltreu together with Marie-Luise Muckenhirn. At the imm cologne 2012 he presented his first own collection.
Boundaries have lost the significance they once held in many areas of our daily lives and in society. For many, life and work are no longer separated by a great divide, while at the same time ever greater value is attached to the quality of our surroundings. This is true of the office environment, and increasingly also the home, as a growing number of people work partially or completely within their own four walls. more…
Designer and interior architect Bernd Benninghoff is rejuvenating Janua’s product range with a table that consists of nothing but two clamps and eight slats of wood. The two clamps are connected via a crossbar and are intended to impart a floating character to the solid wooden top. Because the individual slats of the tabletop aren’t glued together, it can be dismantled into its individual parts, is easy to transport and can be assembled by just one person. more…
