Trend: Reinterpretations

Producing different designs from established forms, seeing the familiar with new eyes and making it into something new and unusual: the wealth of ideas from the designers was again boundless in Frankfurt this year.

Many re-interpretations could be seen: the '60s, '70s and '80s spun off quite a few color and formal designs, for example in the case of the UFO-like lamp "O-Space" by Foscarini, which is reminiscent of the designs from the sixties inspired by space travel. The bright colors, which were, however, rather scarce, are typical for the seventies. The tributes to the eighties were much clearer: geometric forms, cuboid designs, shiny, chrome-plated surfaces and simple black-and-white. Existing objects, however, are not simply referred to but changed in original ways.

Artemide, for example, reduced the cube by one corner and made it into a new object that can now hang from the wall or ceiling. Massimo Iosa Ghini designed a ceiling spot in white, black or silver aluminium die cast for Zumtobel Staff; it appears in an entirely unconventional streamlined form. Professor Dr. Peter Zec and Elmar Schüller had already noticed the strong orientation towards the '80s and the resulting innovations at the Milan Furniture Fair. This trend was also present in Frankfurt.

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