Magazine Living and Furnishing
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Spotlight on awards: SCHNEEWEISS interior
SCHNEEWEISS interior brings together leading manufacturers of contract furniture in Germany and Austria. Just recently, one of the group’s new products – the digital information system “no.e” won the German Innovation Award 2019. We had the opportunity to ask Product Manager...
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Awards as a mouthpiece: an interview with ambigence
Awards are controversial in the interior design industry. They can help unknown market participants to achieve a higher profile. But the effort and costs involved in entering a competition are enormous. We interviewed furniture start-up ambigence about its motivation, selection criteria and its succ...
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The furniture industry’s sustainability goals
The United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, in 2015. The goal of the objectives: to protect the planet and all life on it and to improve quality of life. They can also help the furniture industry to make a valuable contribution in this regard.
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Schaffrath is on track for online success
Shopmacher is an agency that specialises in the development and further development of enterprise e-commerce platforms. In summer 2018, the company created the new online shop for the furniture retailer Schaffrath, based in North Rhine-Westphalia. We spoke with André Roitzsch, CEO of Shopmach...
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3 questions for design studio kaschkasch
kaschkasch was founded at the end of 2011 by Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider. The design duo works in furniture and lighting design, but now increasingly develops industrial products. At this year’s interzum, they presented three handle collections that they designed in collaboration wi...
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3 questions for Furwa’s Roland Reigbert
Furwa is the oldest manufacturer of veneer edging in continuous rolls. Even today, the company produces all of the usual edge types at a location in Walkertshofen, such as real veneer edges, fine-line edges, thick veneer edges and sheathing veneer. We spoke with Roland Reigbert, Managing Director of...
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Micro Living: Interview with Yasmine Mahmoudieh
How will we live in the future? In smaller spaces with better quality of life – or at least Yasmine Mahmoudieh thinks so. With her studio in London, she is among the most renowned interior designers in the world. She has long been looking at future-oriented materials and forms of living. At in...
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3 questions for architectural practice Graft
GRAFT is one of the most renowned architectural practices in Germany. From its offices in Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing, it realises projects ranging from product design to urban planning. An interview with office partner and co-founder Wolfram Putz on the importance of atmosphere in interior desi...
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Three questions for furniture manufacturer Jan Goldau
Mr Goldau, please introduce yourself!
I’m Jan Goldau, one of the founders of Goldau & Noelle. My brother Dominik, my cousin René Nölle and I design and manufacture high-quality household furniture. We sell it directly from our online shop to end consumers in Germany, Austria...
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Interview: @decor8 blogger Holly Becker
“7 out of 10 people purchase things they first see online, so if you aren’t showing your products and services online in the best way possible, your competitors will get your business, it’s very simple”, states Holly Becker, owner and founder of decor8 ("decorate"),...
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Digital freight forwarder on the rise
The logistics industry is facing one of its greatest challenges in digitalisation. Growing online commerce accelerates the processes, and, due to the size, the longer production times and, not seldom, customer wishes, particularly the delivery of items of furniture is a difficult task. Young start-u...
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Three questions for Werner Aisslinger
Berlin’s Aisslinger design studio has been a successful pioneer and trendsetter in the fields of storytelling, narrative architecture and interior design for many years. We spoke to Werner Aisslinger about his concept for the 25hours Hotel “The Circle” in Cologne and about the use...
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Three questions for Studio Besau-Marguerre
The Hamburg designer duo of Marcel Besau and Eva Marguerre work in an interdisciplinary fashion, and that very successfully. They design products for companies like Thonet, Artek and Vitra, conceptualise websites, style photo productions and outfitted the Elbphilharmonie in 2017. We asked them three...
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Questions for Mr. Große-Gung, CEO neueRäume
New Work also brings with it changes to our work environments. During ORGATEC we spoke with Jochen Große-Gung, CEO of neueRäume, about the transformation in our understanding of the value of collaboration, a new level of connecting at the workplace, and the opportunities and risks of digi...
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Home & Living Start-up of the year 2018
Alexander Lenz (33) and Manan Voskanian (28) were named “Home & Living Start-Up of the Year 2018” as part of the Digital Interior Day at Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen event venue on 25 September 2018. For their product “Stylique”, they received a winner’s package wo...
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Interview with Moebel.de - The ROPO effect in the furniture industry
Since January 2018, consumers have also been able to find products in their area on the online platform moebel.de. The new LoPro Multi concept makes this possible. Consumers who only want to get product information online will immediately find a store where they can experience the product in person....
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Christoph Behling: "Sentimentality gets in the way of any progress"
The genial designer, Christoph Behling, London-based by choice, was born in 1970 in Switzerland, grew up in Düsseldorf and went to art school in Stuttgart, where he was an “apprentice“ of Richard Sapper. In 1998 Behling went to London and was senior designer for Ross Lovegrove befor...
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Upcycling - Turning old into new
Upcycling really picked up speed in the interior design industry in 2017. Upcycling has become a real home living trend – there are hardly any limits on creativity here. Today people want to furnish their homes with unique pieces that they won’t find at their next-door neighbours&rs...
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Sophisticated Living – riding the crest of a wave
No, it shouldn't be boring, the upholstered furniture from Sophisticated Living. To convey an inspiring lifestyle; that was the basic idea of the family-owned company founded in 2006 by Ralf Hüllemann, which continued to grow over the last ten years to become a fixture of the industry with...
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