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Simmering furniture towers: Innovative kitchen concept by Philippe Starck

Photo: Warendorf

Ashlar-like towers in dark wood, rather like a living-room unit that can be accessed from all sides. A footprint of one square-metre stretches towards the ceiling, accompanied by an elongated matt-silver table with wooden drawers – apart from the telltale tap peeking over the surface, it’s actually more reminiscent of a dining table or worktop.

The “Warendorf Towers” kitchen is the French designer’s latest line for the Starck by Warendorf Collection. The modular system consists of three main elements – two towers and a long multifunctional table – and integrates the kitchen with the living area so harmoniously that you have to look twice to make out the cooker and refrigerator. The spectrum of functions is roughly divided into a “cold tower” with a dishwasher and fridge-freezer and a “hot tower” with the oven or steam oven. Three sides are closed by drawers, the fourth can be designed individually – with a slate panel or mirror, for instance.

Design Characters: Experiments in Interior Design

Die grazile Dusch-Wannen-Kombination »Swan«.

»Swan« is a combination of shower and bathtub. (Photo: Hasenkopf)

With its Design Characters series, the Hasenkopf company – a manufacturing specialist that produces both on industrial-scale and a one-off basis – is deliberately pushing the envelope of what is feasible when it comes to the processing and deformation of such vastly different materials as Corian, Parapan or acrylic. Hasenkopf’s aim in producing the series is not to develop prototypes for future lines but to experiment with forms, materials and processing techniques that point to unusual individual solutions and are intended to encourage architects and designers to rethink the limits.

Well-known designers and architects are asked to develop their own interpretation of new living environments for the kitchen, bathroom and workstation. The first sequence has already been produced and includes objects by Stuart A. Veech, Paul Flowers, Titus Bernhard and Peter Martin.

Design meets kitchen: Porsche Design and Poggenpohl extend cooperation and plan new kitchen

Foto: Poggenpohl

Kitchen manufacturer Poggenpohl and Porsche Design have extended their licence partnership to 2014. The licence agreement has been in existence between the two premium brands since the Porsche Design P´7340 luxury kitchen was developed and launched in 2005. Both companies have also agreed on an option to develop and produce a new kitchen with a starting price to remain below that of the present P´7340 luxury model.

Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH with all their brands at LivingKitchen 2011

The new kitchen trade fair LivingKitchen, which will celebrate its premiere in January 2011 in parallel to imm cologne, has acquired a top-level exhibitor: Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH. “After a very good start to our exhibitor acquisition, we have reached a further milestone by receiving this confirmation,” said Gerald Böse, Chief Executive Officer of Koelnmesse. “Our strategy is a resounding success. The numerous open and constructive discussions with the entire sector helped to pave the way to achieve this result,” the Chief Executive Officer concluded.

With the brands Siemens, Bosch, Neff and Gaggenau, the world’s leading company for household appliances will be participating in the premiere event in January 2011 and will also attract many other exhibitors from the household appliances sector to take part. The decision made by this global player to participate is a logical conclusion that was reached as a result of the promising developments of the past few months: “We always emphasized that Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH would be open to good trade fair initiatives,” said Ditmar Krusenbaum, Member of the Board of Management at BSH. “This is why we welcome this initiative of the kitchen furniture industry and are certain that this trade fair will once again live up to the importance of the German household and built-in appliance industry,” Krusenbaum added.

LivingKitchen 2011 – Statements

Dr. Lucas Heumann, Trade Associations of the Wood and Furniture Industry, Herford
I am extremely pleased to be in a position today to announce to the international public that “living kitchen” will be held in Cologne as an international kitchen trade fair concurrent with the International Furniture Fair in 2011. A major strategic aim of the German kitchen furniture sector is to present the full scope of its capabilities to an international public. The partnership that we had been seeking for a number of years is now in place, and for that I would also like to congratulate Koelnmesse and in particular the team headed by Mr. Haubold, which I feel did some tremendous work. If we work as well together next year on the marketing of the trade fair, I am confident that LivingKitchen 2011 will be a success from start to finish for the entire international public and the German kitchen furniture sector, in particular.

Dr. Günter Scheipermeier, nobilia-Werke, Verl
My hope for January 2011 in Cologne is that the theme of kitchens can be re-established at the trade fair and reinvigorated with new life through the collaboration between Koelnmesse and the leading companies in the industry. Various things must happen if this is to succeed: Firstly, a number of the leading kitchen furniture makers must become enthusiastic about this trade fair; secondly, the electric appliances industry must be brought on board; and thirdly, foreign visitors, specifically a large number of foreign trade visitors and also foreign exhibitors must be attracted. Those are the aims. They can be achieved if Koelnmesse, on the one hand, and the major players in the industry, on the other hand, can get in step on this.

The kitchen returns to Cologne! International kitchen show LivingKitchen to be held in Cologne from 18th to 23rd January 2011

From 18th to 23rd January 2011 – parallel to the imm cologne – the international kitchen trade fair LivingKitchen® will be held in Cologne for the first time. The international kitchen show will be an independent event that takes place every two years in Halls 4.2 and 5.2 of Koelnmesse Exhibition Centre.

The show will have three Public Days and bring together national and international exhibitors from the entire kitchen industry. Even now, one year before the event, numerous leading companies have registered to take part. The complete list can be viewed at www.livingkitchen-cologne.com.

Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse, commented on this extremely pleasing booking status at a press conference in Cologne: “What makes us strong is our solidarity with the industry, the retail sector and the associations. The common ground between us isn’t just restricted to our goals, it extends to our approach for achieving those goals as well.”

Remarks by Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse GmbH, about the planned international kitchen trade fair in 2011

Gerald Böse, Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Koelnmesse GmbH

Gerald Böse, Chief Executive Officer of Koelnmesse GmbH

Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for coming to this press conference in order to find out at first hand about the current status of our initiative to create a new international kitchen trade fair.
I would also like to thank Mr. Hans Strothoff for giving us the opportunity to present our results to date here at the MHK Forum in Enger. We purposely chose this location in order to save you a long trip.

After extensive and intense talks with companies in the sector, we’ve received numerous expressions of interest from renowned German manufacturers of kitchen furniture who support the concept of holding an international kitchen trade fair in 2011. That’s why it’s my pleasure to announce to you today that the first part of our mission is accomplished. There will be a kitchen trade fair in Cologne in January 2011!

Facts and figures on the situation of the German furniture industry: Home styling is in – buying furniture too?

Dirk-Uwe Klaas, CEO of the Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM)

For Dirk-Uwe Klaas, CEO of the Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM) in Bad Honnef, it’s obvious why home styling has finally been discovered as the latest hot topic: “People spend approx. 340 days a year in their own home. That’s why an increasing number of people are coming to see home as a place for self-fulfilment. Nowhere else can you indulge your own tastes as freely as in your own four walls.”

Cars instead of sofas – a lean period for German furniture manufacturers
But even if home styling has become a cult – is it actually still possible to make money with furniture in the face of shrinking private budgets and the massively subsidised bargains available on the automotive market right now? At first glance, the German furniture industry’s half-yearly figures indicate a resounding “no”. With sales of 7.6 billion euros, German furniture manufacturers were an alarming 13.8 percent or 1.2 billion euros down on the previous year’s figure.

However, in view of the unique economic situation right now, any serious answer to the profitability question must take account of figures from earlier years as well. Back in 2008, for instance, the results painted a very different picture: furniture producers ended the year with growth of 1.6 percent. Although there was a slight decline in domestic sales, this was more than offset by export growth of 4.3 percent as compared to the previous year.

Architecture and Design: Laying out the future

layout_future Floor plan templates are out. Flexibility and individuality are the distinguishing features of up-to-date domestic architecture and furnishings. Or is it just that there are new templates? At the very least, it is possible to outline general structures that will determine the layout of our future homes.

It seems as if action is called for – especially when it comes to standard housing.Your own four walls, a house in the countryside: a place to live out your twilight years and something to leave to the kids. But even without a deed of ownership, the “Ikea nesting instinct” (Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club) is more widespread than ever before.

Philipp Mainzer, e15: “The kitchen is finally being perceived as the social centre of the home”

e15_kueche E15 is an international furniture label in the high-end segment. Modern and timeless design, choice materials and exquisite workmanship are the brand‘s key features. The company was founded in London by architect Philipp Mainzer and designer Florian Asche in 1995. Today its headquarters are in Germany, in Oberursel near Frankfurt am Main.

The furniture is largely manufactured in the Rhine-Main region and distributed all over the world via more than 500 partners in the important markets of Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia. Besides producing its furniture collection, e15 is also active in the fields of design services and architecture, mainly executing projects in Europe and Asia.

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Simmering furniture towers: Innovative kitchen concept by Philippe Starck

Design Characters: Experiments in Interior Design

Design meets kitchen: Porsche Design and Poggenpohl extend cooperation and plan new kitchen

Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH with all their brands at LivingKitchen 2011

LivingKitchen 2011 – Statements

The kitchen returns to Cologne! International kitchen show LivingKitchen to be held in Cologne from 18th to 23rd January 2011

Remarks by Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse GmbH, about the planned international kitchen trade fair in 2011

Facts and figures on the situation of the German furniture industry: Home styling is in – buying furniture too?

Architecture and Design: Laying out the future

Philipp Mainzer, e15: “The kitchen is finally being perceived as the social centre of the home”

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