Cologne, January, 14-20, 2013
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.
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…
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…
The world is changing all the time. Living spaces alter, living situations vary. For some because they move home a lot, for others because they furnish their home little by little or enjoy redesigning it on a regular basis. The shelving system from Steckwerk can handle all these changes. more…
The outdoor sofa Tropez by Spanish furniture manufacturer Gandia Blasco takes the comfort of living room furniture out into the open. Tropez attracts attention precisely because of its unpretentious appearance and lightness – rather like a quietly exhilarated butterfly landing in the garden. more…
Since more than 20 years Schütz Flechtwelten deals with the craft of wickerwork, the basis for furniture made of rattan, a material, that lives up to the green spirit of our times. The company attaches great importance to the fact that the rattan used for their furniture is a renewable resource from sustainable crops, a low-energy product, free of toxic substances and CO2 neutral.
Four trends and 32 trend colours define industrial design and architecture
The future looks rosy – bubblegum pink, to be precise. RAL presents this trend colour and 31 others in its new ‘Colour Feeling 2012+’ colour trend book. This ‘creative tool’ for working with colour trends provides an orientation to future trend colours and their applications. more…
At the Pure Village Club Inekehans©ollection has presented new chairs and desks. Simple looking frames are made by connecting complicated angles of lasercutted and folded rectangular tubes.
With the “Identity” laminate flooring range from Parador, floor design gets more individual. According to the manufacturer any given motif can be depicted on the floor in a photo realistic way and in art print quality. The decors can be created completely freely (“Identity Creation”) or using a wide number of different motifs (“Identity Library”). more…
