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Photo: Grohe

The Minta product family from fittings specialist Grohe keeps on growing. The latest additions are the models Minta Touch and Blue Minta – two products that Grohe promises will provide a technical upgrade for the sink area.
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All photos: Vitra

After a long, cold winter and a not particularly pleasant spring, early summer has come at last – and with it, the prospect of outdoor weather. High time, then, to get the garden, balcony or patio ready for cosy evenings or weekend get-togethers. The Vitra Home Collection offers a wide range of suitable products for both indoors and outside.
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Photo: Christian Fischbacher

Christian Fischbacher is making a new addition to its Benu PET collection in the form of Benu FLOW, a soft-flowing voile. With it the Swiss Company has now successfully produced a flame-retardant fabric out of yarn made from recycled PET bottles. more…

Photo: Walter Knoll

The legendary club armchair Haussmann 310 by Swiss architects and designers Trix and Robert Haussmann is back. Designed in 1962 as part of the Swiss Design Collection, Walter Knoll is reissuing this classic piece of furnishing history. more…

Photo: interzum

Every two years, Koelnmesse collaborates with red dot to host the interzum award. The competition awards the best designs in the international supplier industry for the furniture and interior decorating industries. With 200 registrations from 16 countries, the interzum award: intelligent material & design is once again underlining its function as a pool for new product ideas.
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Photo: interzum

Last week interzum 2013 came to an end with very good results. The world’s biggest trade fair for suppliers to the furniture industry and interior finishing recorded a slight increase in visitor numbers compared to 2011 with around 53,000 visitors from 148 countries. The share of visitors from abroad was about 70 per cent. A clear rise in visitors from Asia, North America and Eastern Europe in particular was seen at interzum. “With the current growth in exhibitors and especially in international visitors, interzum again proved that it is the location worldwide that gives the market and thus the sector’s business its impetus”, was the summary from Katharina C. Hamma, Managing Director of Koelnmesse.

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All photos: Brühl & Sippold GmbH

Bridge is different. Bridge is versatile. With its adjustable arm and backrests and resting on filigree skids, Bridge by Brühl is set to bring a dash of colour to domestic living rooms in the form of pastel-coloured accents. more…

Photo: Resopal; Living Collection Sergio Perrero Verde

Italian artist Sergio Perrero combines art and recycling to create highly emotional works with their own very special materiality. The decors created for Resopal are intended to turn art into a personal item of everyday use for the customer. more…

Photo: Richter Furniertechnik

It looks like real concrete but is extremely easy to handle and weighs just 12.5 kilos per square metre. Its secret: a three-millimetre-thick coating of cement-bound recycled mineral fibres that conceals 16-millimetre-thick particle board coated with melamine resin.
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Photo: Walter Knoll

Space-sculpting and modular – with lavish volumes, deep seats and opulent upholstery. Baden-Württemberg furniture producer Walter Knoll is launching an upholstery range characterised by its outstanding versatility: Yuuto.
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