Trend: Naturalness & Artificiality

The contrast between organics and geometry stands in the foreground in a time when our social awareness of what is natural becomes more and more diffuse. Examples from medicine demonstrate that artificial body parts can completely replace natural ones. One’s personal environment is characterized by the contrast between naturalness and artificiality. Therefore, the designers don't simply say "back to nature" – the combination of the two extremes has become a preferred design tool. At the Milan furniture fair and the Frankfurt Light & Building, the furniture and lamps already presented themselves with an organic look or as allusiosn to existing plants and forms. This trend is continued at the Tendence. However, in case of consumer goods, the nature prints are an additional trend: not only the three-dimensional forms but prints also bring nature into the game.

From innovation to trend: what the brothers Bouroullec designed as a wall hanging "Algue" from organically intertwined plastic modules now enters the living rooms in a similar form. Modules that can be plugged together and serve as a design element or room divider, with filigree textures reminiscent of the world of plants. This reference to nature to use organic structures as a mobile room division has meanwhile become a trend.

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