Cologne, January, 13-19, 2014
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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Photo: David Vintiner
With furniture that oscillates between exotic charm and purist contours, Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien are bringing a new individuality to the world of interior design. “Some pieces are more Nipa, others are more me.” It’s hard to think of a more apt description of the young designer couple’s work than this sentence from Jonathan Levien. And these “things” are often unusually colourful “cultural hybrids” with emotional appeal. Their clients include Moroso, Cappellini, Tefal, Richard Lampert, Glass and Authentics. more…
Although they work most of their time out of different countries, Lin Yi Hsien, Shih Hsiao Chun and Yeh Ting Wei from Taiwan-based design studio KIMU see themselves as a team. They are perfectionists, scatterbrains, artists and researchers – their creativity seems to stem from the differences between their characters. They simply have more fun working together than on their own. They communicate and “live” via the Internet – because, as they say in their joint statement, “three heads are better than one”.
De Sede, the acclaimed swiss manufacturer of leather furniture, has chosen a new way to showcase the models from its collection: on the catwalk. Along with the supermodels on display, which have all been created by leading designers, will also be the intelligent TrI-Folds sofa, a piece born of the company’s collaboration with eCAL/University of Art in Lausanne.
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The laying method of “tile on tile” is well-known. Besides this advantage, however, the new, only 5 mm thin Flatile tiles of Agrob Buchtal are predestined above all for replacing other types of covering by a high-quality ceramic solution.
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Maria Bruun is one of those designers for whom a pencil is more than just a nice accessory. In her eyes, nothing compares with a personal sketch: “The pencil creates personality and helps us tell stories.” more…
The classic desk in the home office is an endangered species. Devices are getting increasingly smaller and permanently installed computers are giving way to mobile solutions. This means the good 2 m² of expensive living space taken up by the furniture can be saved and, above all, put to more variable use.
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