Range Of Furniture at Featured Editions 2014

Published on : Friday, December 13, 2013

imm-colognePure Editions is one of the most sought-after locations at the imm cologne and this year, 14 installations were selected for the special exhibition curated by Stylepark.
On one side, chair fragments soar like a flock of birds taking flight, on the other seating ensembles from the past beam themselves into the present-day setting of the trade fair: at the Featured Editions exhibition at the imm cologne 2014, not a single furniture component is left standing in its conventional place.

 

Featured Editions is one of the highlights of the new Pure Editions trade show format (Hall 3.2) that was launched in 2013. With this expansion of its Pure design segment, the imm cologne has established a gallery-like platform for visionary interior and furniture concepts by eminent design providers. To complement their product and brand presentation, which is designed as an open stage, Pure Editions exhibitors are invited to submit a presentation concept for the special Featured Editions show. One condition applies: the concept has to be created in collaboration with a designer, architect, artist or graphic designer.

 

After the successful premiere at the imm cologne 2013, expectations of the submissions for Featured Editions 2014 were high. And indeed, the expert jury was able to choose from a large number of interesting designs. This year’s jury line-up included Robert Volhard and Daniel von Bernstorff from Stylepark, who were joined by Dick Spierenburg (Koelnmesse), Volker Streckel (Design Post Köln) and design consultant Frank A. Reinhardt (FAR_consulting). The best concepts will be implemented in the form of installations mounted on platforms spread throughout the Pure Editions hall.

 

Due to the high quality of the entries, the jury decided to implement a total of 14 designs by international brand-name companies. This year’s participants are &Tradition with a design by Samuel Wilkinson, Böwer (design: Eric Degenhardt), Hansgrohe (Front Design), horgenglarus (Studio Hannes Wettstein), Label (Floris Hovers & Tom Dissel), Pulpo (Peter Raacke, Christoph Göttel, street artists), String (Magnus Ingerstedt), Thonet (Läufer + Keichel), Vitra (Dieter Thiel), Vondom (Fabio Novembre) VS Möbel (Rolf Lieberknecht), Wogg (Loris & Livia), Zeitraum (Lorenz*Kaz) and Kristalia (Neuland, Paster & Geldmacher).

 

This year too, chairs and armchairs were a particularly popular furniture category for the designers’ and artists’ experiments with form. Basel-based artist Christoph Göttel, for instance, designed “Pimped otto” for pulpo, a delicately balanced tower of jazzed up cardboard armchairs. Designed by Prof. Peter Raacke in 1967 as part of the “Seats for the Unpropertied” series, the folding otto armchair has been re-edited by pulpo and translated into the contemporary zeitgeist by street artists.

 

Visitors to the imm cologne – regardless of whether they are professionals or consumers – will thus benefit from a complementary and absorbing experience that enables them to perceive the respective brand in an unaccustomed dimension free of commercial associations. As for the exhibitors, “Featured Editions” gives them the opportunity to enhance their profile with exciting content and innovations.

 

 

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