Digital Selling
Episode 1: What matters most: Taking Stock
Digital selling is on the rise. But hand on heart: are you prepared? Or are you still hesitating? Wherever you are: In a new series, we take a step-by-step look at the topic. Our expert Leif Kania will make you fit – or even fitter! Let's start with a stocktaking.
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Hygienic furnishings
Function and design against germs and viruses
At the latest since the start of the Corona pandemic, it has become abundantly clear how relevant the topic of prophylactic hygiene actually is. And not only in clinical areas, but also in everyday situations. We present hygiene-optimised furniture.
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Living with the seasons, the delights of decorating, communicating in interior tableaus
Interior lifestyle is a topic that’s very much on people’s minds. As an expression of personality, the interior no longer paints a rigid picture but is becoming a continuous process instead. But the changes in the furnishings aren’t just influenced by trends; they’re dir...
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Trend: Connected Living
Digitization of the interior
Whether in the office or in the private home - digitalization is increasingly determining our everyday lives. Interior design and furnishing are adapting to this increasing networking. Today, interior design objects that optimise the comfort and functionality of the working and living environment ar...
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Smart home, connected living
We’ve slipped into the digital world like a second skin – out of necessity, but not unwillingly. This new familiarity will probably have an impact on acceptance of the smart home idea too: it’s becoming more common for items in private homes to be connected with smart technologies,...
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Trend: Sharing Spaces
Co-Living Reloaded
Temporary. An important attribute for the definition of co-living. People live together temporarily. The demand is growing stronger and more versatile than before. Remote work makes the boundaries between living and working fade. Co-Living Reloaded - A look ahead.
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Convenient living with social and digital connections
There’s growing demand for a temporary home that meets modern expectations of living in an urban context in every respect. And the hospitality market is changing accordingly. New models are emerging for people who need to be flexible in terms of time and place and are open to new living c...
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Trend: Sharing Spaces
Coconat: A Workation Retreat
Sharing models are already commonplace today: from car sharing to co-working to renting out one's own home via Airbnb, Hometogo or numerous other platforms, what can be shared is shared. This trend is also continuing in the area of living.
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Multifunctional – Smaller, reduced, more inside
Urbanisation and rising housing prices call for small-footprint solutions for singles and families with multifunctional features: the furniture industry’s response to the challenge of creating maximum comfort in a small space must take the form of home office systems, small furniture, smart so...
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Trend: Multifunctional
Modular Office - Design for new work environments
Even before the Corona pandemic, work was becoming more mobile and digital. With the current increase in remote working and changing office presences, this trend is intensifying. Change is constant, which means that the requirements for a flexible working environment are growing. Clever room concept...
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Blurring Boundaries: Furniture for the longing for freedom
The growing desire for boundary-free living is leading to overlapping realities and styles that blur the lines between indoors and outdoors, (semi-)public and private, living and cooking, living and eating, living and working, living space and bathroom. In the Blurring Boundaries trend, furniture an...
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Trend: Natural Luxury
Recycling goes premium: Reused material
Furniture manufacturers in the premium segment bring new product highlights to the market every year that often amaze the design scene. Brands like Kartell, Vitra or OUT Objects of our days, however, are now going one step further in terms of environmentally conscious furniture production: they desi...
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Trend: Natural Luxury
Smart materials for "green" furniture
Sustainability is not only a continuing trend in the furniture industry, but also an increasing lifestyle issue. Especially in the urban middle class, there is a growing demand for high-quality furniture that is produced as environmentally friendly as possible.
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IMM TREND.BRIEFING 2021/22
Natural Luxury - Quality is the real luxury
Traditional craftsmanship, simplicity, premium materials, soft-edge design – these are the signals that point to “pure” luxury – pure because it’s natural, defined by a focus on what really matters and the willingness to renounce mass consumption in favour of sustainabl...
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State of the furniture industry
VDM: Importance of the home is growing
Last week, the German Furniture Industry Association (VDM) provided information on the current situation in the furniture industry in Germany. Although the importance of the own home grows among the consumers, one expects a decrease in sales of 4 percent in 2020. For 2021, the association urges a se...
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Product innovation
Perovskit LEDs out of the printer
A team of researchers from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) has succeeded for the first time in producing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from a hybrid perovskite semiconductor material using inkjet printing. So far, this had only been successful with solar ce...
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