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Cologne 2014

By Anki Delfmann - February 3, 2014

Passagen 2014 Koelnischer Kunstverein A&W Designer Of The Year IMM and Passagen 2014 again hosted a plethora of exhibitions, events and talks in Cologne. Established brands, young designers, and schools showed their work themed around (but not limited to) furniture and interior design in the trade fair premises, and
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 1 of 40

Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year The long-established Kšlnischer Kunstverein was home to the A&W Designer Of The Year exhibition.
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 2 of 40

Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year This year, Werner Aisslinger had the honour of joining the 17 year old ist of award winners, including Achille Castiglioni, Phillippe Starck, Ross Lovegrove and Ron Arad. The exhibition was arranged in sections representing Aissinger's recurring passion t
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
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Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year Bikini Island is a modular sofa concept for Moroso. It represents the trend of products telling stories of use, rather than being disconnected objects. The modularity makes it versatile and highlights Aisslinger's view of life as a collage. The up-cycling
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 4 of 40

Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year An ongoing utopia in Aisslinger's work, the Chair Farm imagines a future where we are able to plant and harvest our own furniture. Shown here with a concept of growing plants directly into a pre-fabricated chair-shaped exoskeleton, Aisslinger already thin
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 5 of 40

Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year The Lounge Chair DS 144 was designed for de Sede, and uses a new moulding technology to achieve a thin but comfortable construction. The streamlined design language aims at a long visual halflife period.
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 6 of 40

Passagen, Koelnischer Kunstverein: A&W Designer Of The Year Hoodie Lamp is a mono-material lighting collection with an intense indirect light, designed for B.Lux, Spain in 2013. The base doubles as a bowl for displaying and highlighting precious objects.
Designed by: Werner Aisslinger
www.aisslinger.de Anki Delfmann 7 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Contest D3 Contest is organized by the German Design Council and hosted at IMM. This year's winner is Ordnungshalber by Christoph Goechnahts. It is a reinterpretation of the Shaker peg rail from around 1880. Like its predecessor, Ordnungshalber runs around the pe
Designed by: Christoph Goechnahts
www.christophgoe.ch Anki Delfmann 8 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Contest Stefanie Schissler's Kulle caught our eye for being visually different. The daybed aims at a long life period by establishing an emotional relationship with the user, as opposed to exchangeable repetitive designs in current mass production.
Designed by: Stefanie Schissler
www.stefanieschissler.de Anki Delfmann 9 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Contest Reverso by Yann Mathys is an interactive separation system cut from Tyvek. The scales react differently to light depending on their position, and can be manipulated with a squeegee or simply by hand to display any pattern the user sees fit.
Designed by: Yann Mathys
yannmathys.com Anki Delfmann 10 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Contest Another D3 contestant, Folded Furniture by Sara Mellone is made by simply folding aluminum sheets, resulting in a mono-material, waste-free production process. We loved the purity, combined with the softness of the naturally ocurring curves and rounded co
Designed by: Sara Mellone
saramellone.com Anki Delfmann 11 of 40

IMM Cologne: Das Haus IMM Cologne nominates a different designer each year to envision their ideal future home, Das Haus. This year, the guest of honor is danish-english furniture and interior designer Louise Campbell. She turned the 240 square meter stage into an open-plan ho
Designed by: Louise Campbell
www.louisecampbell.com Anki Delfmann 12 of 40

IMM Cologne: Design Infusion Sarah Illenberger, known for her object-based illustrations for various magazines has taken on designing objects for the 3-dimensional world. Gym Lights ring true to her signature style of bringing everyday objects into a surprising new context.
Designed by: Sarah Illenberger
sarahillenberger.com Anki Delfmann 13 of 40

IMM Cologne: Design Infusion KISD Factory showed live production and assembly of laser-cut furniture at IMM. Visitors were able to customize pieces with their own designs for engravings on the spot.
Designed by: KISD
kisd.de Anki Delfmann 14 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Schools Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, together with Fraunhofer IWU, presented Metal Scapes at D3 schools, experimenting with the rather new production technique of incremental sheet metal forming. Jana Marlene Lippert showed her project "Closer," sugges
Designed by: Jana Marlene Lippert
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IMM Cologne: D3 Schools A selection of prototypes was exhibited by HFG Offenbach under the title "In Process." We liked this idea for a fun and heroic way to make fresh pasta.
Designed by: HFG Offenbach
www.hfg-offenbach.de/index.php?nodeId=106&lang=2 Anki Delfmann 16 of 40

IMM Cologne: D3 Schools In an ongoing research project, the Experimental Media Lab and DPZ Fabspace of HBK Saar experiment with 3D-printed porcelain. Collaborating across course boundaries, they work on the whole process from data input to in-house production.
Designed by: HBK Saar
www.hbksaar.de/institution/international-office/english-information/ Anki Delfmann 17 of 40

IMM Cologne: Living Interiors The only production process to be given a UNESCO World Heritage status, the German-African family business Bark Cloth had their own special show at IMM Living Interiors. On display were live presentations of their production processes, as well as finished
Designed by: Bark Cloth
barktex.com/start.cfm Anki Delfmann 18 of 40

IMM Cologne: Living Interiors Freund GmbH's stand at Living Interiors had an air of Lord of the Rings about it, showing their wall and floor coverings made of mosses, bark, leather and foamed aluminum amongst others. Some of the unusual materials don't only have a visual impact, but c
Designed by: Freund GmbH
http://freundgmbh.com/ Anki Delfmann 19 of 40

Passagen: Designers Tower Designers Tower offered a platform for 15 selected studios and independent designers to show off their latest works. One of them is Markus Krauss with his rocking chair Sway (above), offering plenty of room for two people to lounge in sync, and featuring
Designed by: Markus Krauss
www.markuskrauss.com Anki Delfmann 20 of 40

Passagen: Designers Tower Co-organizer of the show and designer Manuel Welsky presents his cork and steel stool Scrw. The boldly visible screwing mechanism is a major styling feature and makes the height adjustable..
Designed by: Manuel Welsky
www.welsky.net Anki Delfmann 21 of 40

Passagen: Designers Tower The puristic pendant lamp Circulo by Otono Design seems to hover in mid air, thanks to an elaborate equilibration of components. Bola is usable as both wall mounted and table lamp, and the adjustable hemispheres allow an individual light setting for every
Designed by: Otono Design
www.otono-design.com/otono-design-start.htm Anki Delfmann 22 of 40

Passagen: Designers Tower We loved the graphic simplicity and purity of material of Prolog, by Daniel Rauch and Niklas Markloff. The two industrial design students of Folkwang University Essen developed the structure cast from pure tinted UHPC (ultra-high performance concrete) wit
Designed by: Markloff Rauch
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Passagen: Designers Tower Koelnmade is a label that takes pride in making products that are designed and produced in and around Cologne. Grillgut is a simple BBQ grill, that can be used on various bases. It is delivered as a flat laser-cut steel sheet and needs to be finalized by
Designed by: Dreikant
www.koelnmade.de Anki Delfmann 24 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld An abandoned house on Koernerstrasse hosted an installation by Jan-Marc Kutscher and F. Arndt Studio AU, featuring live chickens around a dinner table in a window, a favorite stop for many visitors. Inside the house, designers showed products with a focus
Designed by: Erik Sandoval Pickert
cargocollective.com/eriksandovalpickert Anki Delfmann 25 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Designers Fair At Designers Fair, we found Like Paper, designed by Aust & Amelung. The delicate appearance juxtaposes the fact that these lamps are actually made from slewed concrete, which displays the properties of the paper cast it is made in.
Designed by: Aust & Amelung
aust-amelung.com Anki Delfmann 26 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Designers Fair Another lamp on show by Dua Shop, Vase & Leuchte by Miriam Aust caught our eye because of the clever integration of the plant as part of the design.
Designed by: Aust & Amelung
aust-amelung.com Anki Delfmann 27 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Designers Fair For her label German Jeans, Eva Gronbach designs beautiful couture and accessories, partly integrating fabrics from used miner's overalls.
Designed by: Eva Gronbach
www.evagronbach.com Anki Delfmann 28 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Designers Fair The German Recycling Designpreis exhibited designs former contestants. Federball by Silke Decker is a lamp made from waste collected after badminton competitions.
Designed by: Silke Decker
www.silkedecker.de/index.en.html Anki Delfmann 29 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Gronicles Gronicles showed Dutch design from Groningen at Wohnbar Wunderbar. What looks like a mutant sleeping bag from the outside and the guts of a stuffed animal from the inside is Cozy Shelter by artist and designer Lambert Kamps. The igloo-like inflated struct
Designed by: Lambert Kamps
www.lambertkamps.com/en/ Anki Delfmann 30 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Gronicles Lambert Kamps's installation Inflatable Furniture was a favorite amongst visitors, who could inflate and deflate the whole room by pressing a set of buttons.
Designed by: Lambert Kamps
www.lambertkamps.com/en/ Anki Delfmann 31 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Gronicles Soft Sockets by Lotte Douwes bring a touch of warmth and fashion to often neglected utilitarian electrical products.
Designed by: Lotte Douwes
www.lottedouwes.nl Anki Delfmann 32 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Gronicles Major Tom chandelier by Jack Brandsma reminds of a group of baby UFOs floating around their mother ship. The design is based on a simple plastic shade, which through clever repetition, scaling, mounting and illumination creates a beautiful and unexpected
Designed by: Jack Brandsma
www.jackbrandsma.com/#fresh Anki Delfmann 33 of 40

Passagen: Design Parcours Ehrenfeld, Gronicles Hang On is recognizable as a coat hanger in shape, but features a new take on the hanging mechanism. It attaches to metal structures by a magnet, making it an obvious choice for structural interiors where metal beams are accessible, such as warehouse conv
Designed by: Jack Brandsma
www.jackbrandsma.com/#fresh Anki Delfmann 34 of 40

Jack in the Box Belgian artist Byram Tunez experiments with symmetry and asymmetry in his two- and three-dimensional steel structures. This installation was the central piece at Jack In The Box.
Designed by: Byram Tunez
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Passagen: Hallmackenreuther The Belgian Quarter in the centre is another hub of creativity in Cologne. Bars, shops, and galleries turn into temporary exhibition spaces for furniture during Passagen. The restaurant/ cafŽ/ bar Hallmackenreuther is an old Cologne favourite and hosted a Anki Delfmann 36 of 40

Passagen: Hallmackenreuther Noneon makes furniture and lighting out of reclaimed shop sign letters. This lamp design shows a converted O from an old Rolex sign.
Designed by: Noneon
noneon.de Anki Delfmann 37 of 40

Passagen: Werkstatt im Hof Pliet showed their chair Lobbyist in an old Car Garage in the belgian quarter. The initially flat parts are slotted together and tightened with two fastening elements. This gives the seat and back rest its slightly curved shape. The rocker chair is design
Designed by: Dominik Lutz
http://www.pliet.com/ Anki Delfmann 38 of 40

Passagen: Museum fŸr verwandte Kunst Museum fŸr verwandte Kunst exhibited warming knitted sweaters for antlers, giving this old fashioned German interior accessory a hipster twist.
Designed by: Museum fur verwandte Kunst
www.museumfuerverwandtekunst.de Anki Delfmann 39 of 40

Passagen: Museum fŸr angewandte Kunst Kšln Another take on German-ness was Rolf Sach's Exhibition Typisch Deutsch at MAKK. This piece in front of the Museum shows both, Germany's long-established dedication to separating recycling, as well as seemingly typical German emotions.
Designed by: Rolf Sachs
www.museenkoeln.de/museum-fuer-angewandte-kunst/default.asp?lang=&schrift= Anki Delfmann 40 of 40

Every January, IMM Cologne and the off-site exhibitions and events of Passagen kick off the design year as the first international shows on the calendar, hosting nearly 1500 exhibitions in all. We have bundled up in our winter gear to wander the fair and city to bring you the highlights of 2014 in our gallery. The shows are focused on (but not limited to) furniture and interior design, and increasingly flirt with other disciplines with each new year.

A recurring theme this year again was sustainability in the shape of local production, longevity and up-cycling. On the engineering side, the implementation of brand-new materials and techniques allowed for exciting previously impossible structures. We also saw compelling examples of furniture design as a discipline that is no longer just about detached objects but rather creating experiences, interactions and stories.

Highlights included the honorable Designer Of The Year show about Werner Aisslinger, the D3 Contest by the German Design Council, Designers Tower, and the whole neighborhood turned exhibition at Design Parcours Ehrenfeld.

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Anki Delfmann

Anki is a senior independent design consultant working in product innovation, design strategy and user experience. She balances her own projects with consulting jobs for small and international companies including Vodafone, Trivago and Fatmap. Her work has varied from designing a FAD award winning baby chair, snowboard boots and 3D UX for social networks, outdoor adventure and digital city twins, to design strategy, UX and brand consulting for startups.
Having earned her Diplom and Masters in Cologne, Sydney and Barcelona, she now splits her time between London and Cologne, and has made her suitcase an integral part of life.
On the hunt for inspiration, she writes about design and travel, and has recently founded a small but mighty global collective with like-minded designers, writers and engineers. She loves language, the discovery of our planet, and everything science-based, automated, 3D, collapsible or responsive.