Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Ruthless reduction of form: With the bench Molly that is made of screwed together curved powder-coated steel pipes, the Berlin-based designer Marcel Pasternak presented a statement of no-frills design at the Pure Talent Contest of imm cologne.
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Pasternak/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Formable light: The lamp Varjo (Finnish for "Shadow") created by the Italian designer Umberto Garcia is made up of a system that is spanned between the ceiling and the floor comprising of six differently sized non-fixed rings, which elastic textile straps run through.By moving the rings the shape and the light transmission of the shade that is formed by the straps change.
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Garcia/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Creatures made of concrete and metal: With his outdoor furniture family Nocturnal Beasts, the Israeli designer Yohay Alush has set out to create a new space for teenagers. The beasts come to life at night. A hybrid of the street materials concrete and metal in the form of mythical wild creatures. They amplify music played on a mobile phone and provide pedal-powered light and a heat-emitting bench. Music, light and warmth – that’s all it takes to generate social energy.
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Alush/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
... the sun passes in the south: Bringing light into enclosed spaces as naturally as possible – this is Berlin designer Sofia Souidi’s objective with her lamp Gradient. It projects a rectangle of light on the wall whose colour, brightness and shape varies imperceptibly, reflecting the time of day and current weather conditions – almost as if the sun were moving past the (non-existent) window.
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Souidi/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Firmly strapped: Liga - teamwork by the French designer Matthieu Muller and Pierre-Alexandre Cesbron - is a series of metal storage furniture, comprising of a box, a bedside cabinet and a coffee table.The two-piece lid is fastened using a full-perimeter nylon strap that serves as a joint and can be folded open separately to grant access to the closed interior of the piece of furniture.
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Muller, Cesbron/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Cell-elasticity: In order to find a new approach in the competitive seating furniture section, the Japanese designer Hiroyuki Morita experimented with nylon ropes cast in latex for his chair Cellastic.Here the elasticity and traction of the materials as well as the structure of the nylon ropes play an essential role, whereas the pattern based on the so-called cell sequence reminds one of the molecular structure of organic cells.
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Morita/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
From a work tool to seating furniture: Originally used as a harvesting tool for sorting grain, Temi presents such an ergonomic and mature form that the Japanese designer Hiroyuki Morita wanted to retain the shell as a seat perfectly adapted to match the human body.With its simple construction and reduced use of material - bamboo, leather, steel - the resulting stool Temi has an absolutely forward-looking appearance.
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Morita/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Inseparable: the table and chair in Symbiotic Objects are mere fragments – lovingly worked from metal, wood and leather – that only become complete when a person inserts him/herself between them as part of the furniture. The Chinese designer Xiang Guan highlights the relationship between human beings and utility objects, one he believes needs to be redefined in our consumer society and throw-away culture.
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Guan/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
With his project, the Frenchman, who lives in Amsterdam, Julien Manaira, wants to make the production process visible and discover open spaces for the individual influence during the production.The shelf is made by pouring epoxy resin onto a mould layer by layer, where the time factor plays an equally important role as the individual pivoting of the casting mould.
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Manaira/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
A hint of luck: The fragrance dispenser Bonsay by the Japanese designer Takafumi Nemoto picks up on old handicraft techniques and a traditional way of thinking, because its complicated branches made of natural materials and entwined per hand not only emanate a fragrance, but also luck.In the Japanese culture, knotting and knitting are considered to be a symbol for uniting the past and its continuation in the future.
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Nemoto/Koelnmesse
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Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Attractive: The knitted carped, Stained Carpet, by the Israeli designer Irina Mirer, literally attracts stains.Thanks to a special technology implemented during the production, an impacting liquid is applied to certain parts of the fabric so that instead of an amorphous stain, a pre-defined motif or pattern is accentuated - with a unique colouring.
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Mirer/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Back in the present: What does living space mean in the era of the digital hyperspace of the World Wide Web?The product series Hyperreal thematises the disappearance of the borders between space and time by asking about the everyday habits through furniture with contrary functions.The German designer, Pia Regenbrecht, wants to redirect the focus to life here and now.In this way, the wooden table "Productivity >< Disfunction" becomes a functionless object by turning the upper part over, the clock "Future >< Presence" makes the clock only readable from one angle or perceivable from the surrounding space and the sheet steel standing mirror "Selffocus>< Surrounding" exceeds a mirror by providing a highly-polished, idealised reflection or steers the view to the surrounding environment.
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Regenbrecht/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Foldable, mobile and easy to stow away: The team of students from the Weimar Bauhaus University (Alissa Arends, Leon Bucher and Yelim Kim) created Fold it (not only) for use by students.Due to the integrated joint and its simple construction the table made of steel pipes and multiplex board can be converted fast and easily, stowed away to save space or carried out into the open air.The table top is simply lifted out to mobilise it.
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Arends, Bucher, Kim/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Thrown into folds: In the new outfit, everyday items like a simple stool can change their appearance dramatically and become rarities, as the young textile designer Anne Schmiederer proves with her Blue Ruffle Chair.With the project she aims to discover the fields of application of the classic plissé technique in interior design.
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Schmiederer/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Started in the back of a garage. A simple hook workshop lamp was the starting point for this extremely flexible lighting system by the German designers Jonas Wansing and Svenja-Katharina Jakobs.It gains its flexibility from the 60° cut and a sliding contact at the ends of the individual, extendible elements.These supply each other with electricity and form both the lamp and the frame at the same time.
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Wansing, Jakobs/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Upcycling as a form of art: it was the material that inspired Hamburg textile designer Sophia Schulz to create her Honeycomb Carpets. She takes thick rolls of wool – waste products from felt making – and uses them as the weft material in woven carpets. In this way unique carpets with strong patterns are produced that remind one of a honeycomb or cell structures in one's traditional loom.
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Buhné /Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
Floating, lightweight room dividers: Sometimes the suggestion of privacy is enough. The Foam Fences of the Belgian designer Anton Hendrik Denys look like metal grating due to the rubber coat and the angular overlapping voluminous foam strips, but are indeed soft and lightweight.They allow ample light and just enough of an unrestricted view so that a room can be defined without suffocating it.
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Ronald Smits/Denys/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
A carpet with an integrated used look: The colour indigo that is familiar from jeans, which on increased usage still age beautifully through the arising tones of blue shades, inspired the Dutch designer Adrianus Kundert to design the carped Indigoes.The thick cotton yarn that is only surrounded by a thin layer of indigo, shows lighter traces where people walk over the carpet more frequently.This patina turns it into a very personal item and extends its service life.
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Kundert/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
The Swedish designer Victor Alge took the scientific name for moose, Alces alces, as the name for his chairs. He wanted to find a use for the masses of animal skins left behind after moose hunting in Sweden. He developed a new processing method: hard leather parchment is softened, sewn together and then filled with compressed air before leaving it to dry – creating a form as hard as plastic.
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Alge/Koelnmesse
Record Numbers for its Birthday: The 15th Pure Talents Contest at imm cologne Shows an Up-to-Date Cross-Section of the Young, International Design Scene
imm cologne 2018, Koelnmesse
A collaboration between the designers Alejandra Perini, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lollano and Raúl Arribas de Miguel, the metal stool Cétoine is inspired by the beauty and diversity of the insect from which it takes its name, the rose chafer. The beetle was considered sacred in many ancient cultures, and its exoskeleton is a shimmering multitude of colours that varies depending on the viewer’s perspective. The two stools respond to this interplay and are joined to each other in a sleek, fluid movement.
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Perini, Sanchez de Lollano, Arribas de Miguel /Koelnmesse
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