Magazine Living and Furnishing
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Roamlike - Holiday in the Showroom
Holiday guests not only expect their holiday flats and houses to be perfectly located - the ambience of the temporary home should also be cosy and stylish. Meeting the customers' wishes can be quite expensive for private landlords. The Cologne-based start-up Roamlike wants to remedy this - co-fo...
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"The attitude towards the office is changing"
Coworking has been a successful model in recent years. Mobile and flexible working methods have become established in many areas. But what challenges are there in implementing such concepts, especially in view of the Corona pandemic? We spoke to interior designers Susanne Brandherm and Sabine Krumre...
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Classic of furniture design: Adjustable Table E 1027
They can be found in many flats - the classics of furniture design. In other words, a piece of furniture that was designed decades ago, but is still successfully sold today. While collectors primarily focus on originals, other design lovers buy post-produced or limited editions from the official lic...
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Logistics meets data: Cooperation between sectors
The Federal Association of Furniture Forwarding and Logistics (Bundesverband Möbelspedition und Logistik e.V.) and the Data Competence Center e.V. have already been working together for some time as part of the Future Initiative Furniture Logistics. With the new cross-membership, the organisati...
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Why customers can (not) say what they want
Everyone wants sustainable furniture, when asked. But do they really, when it comes to spending (more) money? The agency Beyond Reason uses neuroscientific methods to find out which processes in a consumer's brain influence actuall purchase decisions. This knowledge can be used for the marketing...
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Past and future: a small office-time travel
The coronavirus crisis has changed the world of work in a very short space of time, but even before the pandemic, office design was constantly changing. In our interview, Albert Denz, owner of DenzDesign GmbH and www.officebase.info, takes us on a personal journey through time – from the 1960s...
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Rethinking the office: a conversation
The second home office wave is just starting. At the same time, many companies are asking themselves how they will be able to get their staff to return to the office after it. What added value does an office workplace have to offer in order to complement working from home intelligently? A conversati...
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"Flex-Haus": The flexi-work office of Deutsche Bahn
Everyone is talking about flexi-work models such as co-working or desk sharing. But how can this type of office concept be implemented successfully? In our interview, we spoke with Christof Nellehsen from the architectural practice aib about planning the office space for the first “Flex-Haus&r...
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Combining forces: Franke merges divisions
Franke, the world's leading supplier of solutions and equipment for domestic kitchens, private bathrooms, semi-public and public washrooms, professional system catering and coffee preparation, is repositioning itself. In an interview, Barbara Borra, President/CEO Franke Kitchen Systems, explains...
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Own communities - a chance for companies and customers
Customer communities are an excellent tool for customer service, customer loyalty and market research, which is not used enough by the German economy. How furniture companies can benefit from them, ambista author Christine Sommer-Guist asked an expert for corporate and sales communication, Dr. Rolan...
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Spatial Design: New study course in Lucerne
How must rooms be designed so that we find them pleasant? This is one of the key questions that spatial designers deal with. The new design direction is changing the way rooms can be planned. In the winter semester 2020/2021, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will offer the new cou...
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Start-up-Spotlight: WYE - Furniture design from their own material
The furniture start-up WYE has not only created a sustainable product with its own wood-based material Neolign, but has also thought through its entire production process holistically. We spoke with Franziskus Wozniak (Managing Director at WYE) and Ferdinand Krämer (Chief Designer at WYE) about...
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International e-commerce meets China: Alibaba creates brand platforms
The Chinese market is attractive. China has been the world’s biggest e-commerce market for years and is poised to become its largest retail market soon. An interview with Andreas Kerschner, Category Leader Europe at Alibaba.
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What are the consequences of "discountitis"?
It is hardly possible to imagine the furniture trade without discounts, and yet many consumers have long since become jaded to them. In an interview with ambista, the expert Timo Renz from the business consultancy Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner explains the consequences of constant teasers and how th...
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Colornetwork: rethinking colour sustainably
Katrin de Louw, owner of the company “Trendfilter – Designzukunft für Möbel und Materialien” (Trendfilter – Future Design for Furniture and Materials) and founder of Colornetwork, is keen to move away from fashionable colours and towards “Sustained Colour&rdqu...
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Robotically fabricated building blocks for a temporary office
There are already a number of flexible office solutions. But offices whose construction is fully automated – that’s something we haven’t seen until now. When it comes to digitalisation and automation, construction is only slowly getting on board. Yet there is tremendous potent...
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Start-up Sporlight: Second chance for used furniture
Second-hand is trendy: used clothing, shoes or handbags are no longer slow sellers and the used car market is also flourishing. But for used furniture it does not always look like this. If granny's old chest of drawers or mother's wardrobe does not suit one's own taste, the piece of furn...
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