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01 Trickery
False-Bottomed Design

Illusions
Staging
Fake Function
Narration

Design against design: With experiments, with products and furniture that are driven by artistic rather than market-oriented motives and play with our expectations, designers and their public are rebelling against the slickness of the design world. Improvisation and artisanal imperfection stand for creativity, which seems better suited to solving current and future problems than classic forms.

The result looks pieced together, sometimes even primitive; there are hybrids between various furniture types, combinations of plastics and natural materials. Colours are another popular area for experiments that yield toneddown shades like lilac, apricot or brown.


02 Comfort Zone
Consoling and Cuddly

Hobby Bricolage
Englishness
Puffs and Cakes
Folklore Farm

Retreat to the comfort zone: Voluminous wing chairs, borrowings from English nostalgia, cake-shaped soulsoothers and furniture that radiates cosy, self-made aesthetics keep the outside world at bay. Colourful, traditional ornamentation brings far off climes a little closer to home. Textiles, shag-pile carpets and ceramic tiles signal cosiness and durability, emphasised by an earthy brown with a hint of blackberry and subtle dashes of yellow, red and green.


03 Rehab
Purism as Self-Therapy

High-tech, Low-tech
Manipulating Greenery
Experiments
Detox

Back to basics: Furniture and rooms are being subjected to a kind of rehabilitation treatment and stripped of all comfort and ornamentation. What remains are skeletal forms and white walls.

The naked form becomes the starting point for further development using innovative materials and techniques. Angular forms, functional adjustment features and folding options are typical of the slightly chunky Rehab aesthetics. Yellow, the dominant colour, stands out clearly against the neutral whites and greys.


04 Discipline
A Return to Reason

No Jokes, No Fakes
Utility
Craftsmanship
Back to Bauhaus

The beauty of reason: Luxury is no longer sought in comfort but in formal and qualitative consistency. Only forms that are beautiful, innovative and durable can be useful as
well. Bauhaus classics set the tone, quality workmanship adds authenticity.

Slender, simple furniture with as few edges as possible dominates. The materials also indicate a return to the authentic: wood, leather, woven fabrics or ceramics, rounded off with the occasional plastic detail. Beige, old rose and a warm tea-brown add a touch of warmth to the discipline.