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Prophets & Penitents

From making-up to breaking-up, Prophets & Penitents: Confessions of a Chair has now made the move from a 15th century chapel to the small screen. Featuring the debut of 35 chair prototypes, and assorted established & emerging designers.

Prophets & Penitents: Confessions of a Chair took place in Milan between 22–27 April at the Oratorio della Passione Sant’Ambrogio.

An initiative of DAMn°, Galleria Blanchaert, Elena Aguido & Alexandra Waldburg-Wolfegg.

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MoOD, short for Meet only Original Designs, had creativity and innovation lurking around every corner of the fair. One such encounter was with the Flemish Masters, a project combining the talents of furniture manufacturers and textile companies together in five partnerships. President of the Flemish Masters think tank, Axel Enthoven, believes that with this method of collaboration they “have found an innovative way of working together that challenges our creativity” and it promises to be a commercial success. Subscribers can see the masterful outcome of the initiative here.

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Where can one find creativity and innovation in upholstery, window treatments, wallcoverings, and the world of materials? At MoOD, formerly known as Decosit, attendees can ‘meet only original designs’. At this international event each exhibitor owns and produces its collection, giving customers flexibility and confidence in their purchases. The Trendease Team found oodles of inspiration on the revamped show floor. In this episode get an in-depth look of the exhibition’s offerings as our host, Jennifer Castoldi, gets you into the mood!

You would think that October would have been a little quieter after the frantic show rounds of September. But you would be wrong; Cersaie in Bologna brought us key information about what’s happening in ceramic tiles (our in depth review will be in the December issue of Mix magazine) and in London, cult exhibition Frieze pointed the way for the art world. Along with a fresh round of exhibitions from Padua to New York, inspiration for the designer is thick on the ground this autumn. However with heavy workloads and tighter travel budgets restraining most design professionals, this newsletter attempts to stop the gaps by providing a useful snapshot of the most important things happening this month.

Reacting to readers’ feedback is core to our mission at Global Color Research™.  Which is why our marketing department’s reader survey made for such interesting reading.  It seems we are on the right track focusing on the colour trends that are at the centre of our business, which is good news. So how can we make things even better? When asked what people would like to see more of, the answer was more information on colour and its use in design along with regional trends. This newsletter feels like the ideal arena to talk further about the micro trends we can’t always cover in the magazine and to focus on the changing choices in colour that are happening at an ever more breakneck speed. And to address the very pertinent issue of regional variations in colour choices, we have asked our new colour expert in America, Mark Woodman, to contribute a ‘letter’, focusing on what is happening in the US.

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Architekten in der (Finanz-)Krise?

Die kriselnde Weltwirtschaft macht auch vor den Stararchitekten nicht Halt: Die Investoren werden vorsichtiger, Groß-Projekte werden auf Eis gelegt oder gänzlich verworfen.

Aber auch andere Stararchitekten, wie Rem Kohlhaas, sprechen davon, dass zahlreiche Projekte derzeit auf Eis gelegt werden. Denn die Lust am Investieren ist vielen Firmen von der internationalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise gründlich verhagelt worden. Ein Beispiel hierfür ist auch das Aus des Milliardenprojekts von Fürst Albert von Monaco. Der Monarch plante vor dem Grimaldi-Forum den Bau eines Hotels und Museums sowie von Wohnungen und Geschäften auf einer neuen Halbinsel in der Größe von rund 20 Fußballfeldern. Dafür hatten, laut ‘Spiegel’, Norman Foster und Daniel Libeskind konkurrierende Projekte entwickelt, die schon mit den künstlichen Inseln vor Dubai verglichen wurden. Im Februar dieses Jahres sollte die Entscheidung über den Siegerentwurf fallen.

Dennoch: Unter Deutschlands Architekten scheint es zum Jahresbeginn noch keine Katastrophenstimmung zu geben. Auch im rezessionsüberschatteten Jahr 2009 erwartet die Mehrheit der Planer keine Verschlechterung der Geschäfte gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Ein knappes Viertel rechnet sogar mit wachsenden Umsatzzahlen und mehr Aufträgen. Das zeigen die jüngsten Ergebnisse des Marktforschungsunternehmens Bau-Info-Consult. Für Bauunternehmer könnte in Zeiten der Neubau-Flaute hingegen die Renovierung des Gebäudebestands zum wichtigen Rettungsanker werden. Laut Bau-Info-Consult planen professionelle Wohnungsanbieter in den kommenden drei Jahren wertsteigernde Maßnahmen bei rund 1,7 Millionen Wohnungen. Dazu kommen werterhaltende Maßnahmen von mehr als 10 Milliarden Euro jährlich, allein bei den professionellen Anbietern. Darüber hinaus stehen auch Modernisierungen bzw. Sanierungen auf dem Programm. Die beiden großen Verbände der Bauwirtschaft sehen das Verhältnis von Neubau und Gebäudesanierung ähnlich: Der Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie hat Ende Februar seine Analyse von Anfang Januar bestätigt, dass die Maßnahmen im Wohnungsbestand von der Kapitalmarktkrise bislang unberührt geblieben sind. Das CO2-Wohnungssanierungsprogramm hat 2008 bereits geschätzte 10 Milliarden Euro Volumen angestoßen. Die im ersten Konjunkturprogramm beschlossene Bereitstellung zusätzlicher Kredite für die Jahre 2009 bis 2011 wird den Wohnungsbau weiter stabilisieren. Für den Eigenheimneubau sieht der Verband dagegen angesichts der Verunsicherung der privaten Haushalte wenig Chancen und geht davon aus, dass die Umsätze im Wohnungsbau 2009 insgesamt um etwa ein Prozent zurückgehen werden. Damit ruhen die Hoffnungen jetzt verstärkt auf dem öffentlichen Bau, wo im Jahr 2009 der stärkste Zuwachs erwartet wird: Der Zentralverband Deutsches Baugewebe (ZDB) hält ein Umsatzwachstum von 11 Prozent für möglich. Der Hauptverband geht von einem Wachstum des öffentlichen Bauvolumens um 8 Prozent aus – sofern die Ausschreibungen der öffentlichen Bauaufträge zügig in Gang kommen.

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Higher, faster, better – the fight for the Olympic hundredth seconds in Beijing is over. Instead, long lasting is the worldwide battle for market shares. And our industry too has not been spared by the virus of greedy megalomania. Mergers generating ever larger company units are increasingly common, while unavoidable bankruptcies are the consequences. These are the visible signs of market saturation, but it also stands for society supersaturation. The ‘well-known’and the ‘approved’ are ignored, while people constantly seek out a ‘mind-blowing kick’. The ‘kick’ greed results in the offer of superficial thrills with opulence overladen with pomp and splendour. Showing off and pornography make the consumer insecure.

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Now in its 18th year, Fabrics and Furnishings (F&FI) is a news tabloid printed on high quality, glossy stock four times a year. Including pass-a-long circulation, F&FI reaches approximately 10,000 global marketers, buyers and specifiers of fabrics, upholstery, and furnishings in the USA/NAFTA Region, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Rim; a total of 80+ countries.

The objective of F&FI is to promote the communication between producers and wholesalers of decorative fabrics, wall coverings and upholstery. The editorial emphasis is on news of export customers and US-based specifiers, what they are buying and how the vendor can improve service to them. F&FI also covers the vendors' efforts to serve the buyer in terms of product, people and trends.

Contract/Hospitality News (CHN) is a special section in each issue of F&FI devoted to the hospitality textiles market. C/HN is the ONLY newspaper that reaches most of the important 3,000 hospitality textile specifiers in the U.S. and worldwide.

Approximately 7,000 copies of F&FI, including C/HN, are mailed or distributed to readers in the U.S. and worldwide including: major manufacturers and converters of decorative fabrics, upholstery fabrics, wall coverings and their suppliers, large producers of bedding, bath, all home textiles and furniture; leading wholesalers, jobbers and retailers; distributors of fabrics and furnishings in the U.S. and worldwide; key design studios and sales agents worldwide and in the U.S. and 3,000+ hospitality specifiers in the U.S.

If you want to keep up with the global home and contract furnishings industry, then subscribe to Fabrics & Furnishings International. All the news you need in an easy to read authoritative format.

IGI, the International Wallcovering Manufacturers Association, was founded in 1950 as a not-for-profit organisation committed to representing key players and decision makers in the wallcoverings industry - manufacturers and suppliers - active in the five continents of the world.

With a vision to universally establish wallcoverings as the modern, innovative and prestigious product of choice in home and business decoration, IGI is dedicated to increasing the ability of wallcoverings industry members to solve their business problems by providing a forum for discussion, disseminating information, and representing the industry before government and standards bodies.

IGI is recognised as a valuable, comprehensive and authoritative information source on the wallcoverings industry.

IGI Objectives

Whether it be external challenges from new competitors in the global market place, or labour challenges, conducting business has become a much more complex affair to manage. Being a member of IGI gives the opportunity to receive strategic information and to communicate with knowledgeable professionals from the wallcovering sector.

OBJECTIVES

• Establish standards of commercial practice and product performance to protect and further the interest of consumers, traders and manufacturers,

• Promote excellence in the standards of materials and workmanship in the products of the industry,

• Conduct technical research and market studies,

• Organize technical and marketing seminars,

• Participate in international exhibitions.