Forms in Cologne

Variety and individuality are at the top of the consumers’ wish list. The manufacturers are confronted with the wide range of needs of buyers and thus a simultaneous juxtaposition of various consumer realities. Therefore, everything seems acceptable. This not only applies to the selection of colors but also with regard to which forms the furniture may take. Cool, classic geometry exists next to round, organic shapes. As you will see, it also applies to the decision about the materials being used, where the spectrum ranges from plastic to natural. Anything goes.

Both the edgy and the round establish significant trends in the year of the European football championships. The radii of the edges are large and soft. They encounter products that give clear and simple performance and whose volumes are sharply severed. The attraction is the combination of the two formal languages. A second continuing trend: furniture as sculpture, as amorphous volumes, which – for example – may also serve the seats. At any rate, it serves the communication, for example, about sitting. And this complies with the general trend to establish a communicative and authentic quality of living in the private realm, called "homing" in the language of trend researchers: away from aesthetically formal representation and towards the individually functional and sociable.

The desire for a private quality of living is still expressed in material values, which communicate idealistic values today: longevity, recyclability, energy-conserving production and logistics with reduced packaging stand in the foreground. People wine and dine on tables that are longer than they have been in a long time. Thanks to sophisticated technology, they can be extended when guests come, guests who can make themselves comfortable on chairs that are produced with traditional yet cutting-edge bentwood technology and aluminium surfaces. Cupboards and shelves, even as systems, offer a high level flexibility – for example, suspended from a wall-mounted wooden base, seemingly defying gravity in this form.

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