Home/

    Newsletters

Newsletters

Browse past issues of our Newsletters to catch up on the latest trends and news or past events, and subscribe to make sure you don't miss anything in the future.

Subscribe to the world's best architecture and design newsletter

And get exclusive access to the latest news and projects, carefully curated by the world’s most renowned editors.

By entering your email address, you agree to receive Architonic messages, promotions, other commercial messages.

You can view our Privacy Policy here and you may unsubscribe at any time.

Previous editions are available -browse the archiveanytime
 
 

Photo: Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

Heimtextil - contract textiles are coming home

Heimtextil - the number-one international trade fair for home and contract textiles, which runs from 12 to 15 January in Frankfurt - is every bit as geared towards the contract sector as it is the residential one. If you're an architect, interior architect, interior designer or planner, this is the must-visit event for the latest products, projects and trends in the ever-changing textile sector.

Key features include: a special Contract Guide, available free of charge to visitors; the Salon Interior.Architecture.Hospitality, which serves as a natural meeting point; and trend-scouting and guided tours aimed specifically at creative professionals and hoteliers.

Heimtextil offers an unique platform for you to encounter the best selection of textiles for hotels and other contract environments. So don't miss it!

Your Architonic Team

Zurich | Berlin | New York | Barcelona | Rome | Milan | Vienna | Munich | Hamburg | Brussels | Amsterdam | Copenhagen | Stockholm

 

Follow Architonic on:

Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | LinkedIn | Pinterest

Advertisement

Preview of Heimtextil 2016 

Text: Heimtextil

Heimtextil 2016 – Worlds of textile well-being and trends for hotels, interior design and architecture

© Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

With over 2,700 exhibitors, Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main from 12 to 15 January 2016 will once again be the world’s biggest trade fair for home and contract textiles, with the biggest selection of contract textiles for hotels, architecture and interior design to be found anywhere across the globe. Among them, more than 350 Heimtextil exhibitors from all over the world are set to present their product portfolios under the ‘Contract Creations’ label. But the range of contract textiles doesn't only include an unrivalled variety of materials and suppliers for all quality and price categories. Planners can also look forward to an exciting blend of new impulses and experienced partners for their construction and interior-design projects. Guided tours and a lecture programme aimed especially at architects and hoteliers provide valuable input.

With the unparalleled inspiration generated by the ‘Theme Park’ trend show in Hall 6.0, at the heart of the fair, Heimtextil offers an unrivalled overview and preview of interior-design trends. The Theme Park also risks a look into the future of ‘hospitality and presents inspiring and visionary ideas. As a cooperation partner of this year's Finest Interior Award, Heimtextil honours the creative work of interior architects, interior designers and furnishers. The Finest Interior Award is given for individual and professional furnishings.

The huge spectrum of products at Heimtextil is clearly structured. ‘Contract Creation’ logos on the exhibition stands show which exhibitors offer contract textiles and furnishing solutions for hotels, restaurants and other commercial premises. The Contract Guide is a good orientation aid and includes a list of suppliers of contract textiles. It will be available free of charge to visitors at several points around the fair.

To Finest Interior Award on the Heimtextil website

 

To Contract Guide on the Heimtextil website

 

Contract Creations – the sign of expertise in the contract sector 

 

The Heimtextil trends at the ‘Theme Park’ 

 

Lectures for hoteliers and architects 

© Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

Lectures Interior.Architecture.Hospitality

In cooperation with ‘AIT’ architecture magazine and the IHA hotel association, Heimtextil offers a varied and interesting programme of lectures for architects, interior architects, designers and hoteliers. All lectures will be held in ‘Saal Europa’, Foyer Hall 4.0, on 13 and 14 January 2016. 

‘AIT’ architecture magazine offers a stimulating programme of half-hour lectures and panel discussions with internationally renowned architects. On the afternoon of 13 January, they will be held under the motto ‘compact.good.exclusive – the new luxury in residential construction’. On Thursday, 14 January, the focus from 13.00 will be on ‘Hotel architecture as a retreat in foreign countries’.

On the morning of 14 January 2016, the German Hotel Association (IHA) will offer insights into the latest trends and developments relating to sustainability in the hotel business. Experts such as Martina Baumgärtner (ALEGRIA), Christoph Haub (REMONDIS), Frank Martin (Cofely Deutschland) and Florian Zeitler (Electrolux Professional) will speak about environmentally friendly hygiene solutions and technologies for hotels. In their lectures, the speakers will tackle the following questions: ‘Outsourcing or own cleaners?’ and ‘What challenges are associated with a modern environmental-management system?’ The thematic spectrum will range from housekeeping to economic energy supply. Rounding off the morning event will be a lecture by tourism expert Olaf Schlieper of the German Tourist Office (DZT), in which he will provide a compact overview of the opportunities and challenges of sustainable travel.

Lectures and future-oriented subjects for architects and hoteliers

 

Architects and designer select Heimtextil products

© Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

Around 30 architects and interior architects will search for new generations of innovative products from the contract textiles, textile room-dividing and sun-protection systems, wall coverings, wallpaper and furniture product groups to be seen at Heimtextil. There will be a notice about the results of the AIT trend scouting at ‘Salon Interior.Architecture.Hospitality’ in Foyer 4.0 as from the second day of the fair. Additionally, the trend scouts will hold a guided tour to the award-winning exhibitors for visitors interested in this subject.

‘AIT’ and ‘xia’ architectural magazines have once again joined forces with Heimtextil for the ‘Architecture + Textile Contract’ innovation award, which underscores the significance of the architectural quality of textile products and room solutions. The competition is aimed at architects, interior architects and designers, as well as industrial companies and processors of textile products, contract textiles and room solutions.

The awards ceremonies for the ‘Architecture+ Textile Contract’ and the ‘AIT Trend Scouting’ will be held in ‘Saal Europa’, Foyer Hall 4.0, at 17.00 on 13 January 2016. The Innovation Award exhibition can be seen at the AIT stand throughout the fair. The products nominated for the ‘AIT Trend Scouting’ will be on show from the second day of the fair at ‘Salon Interior.Architecture.Hospitality’ and in Foyer 5.1/6.1. They will also be labelled accordingly at the manufacturers’ exhibition stands.

Innovative product solutions for architects and designers

 

Guided tours for architects and hoteliers 

© Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

In cooperation with ‘AIT’ and ‘HotelDesign/AHGZ’ trade magazines, Heimtextil will offer customised guided tours for architects and hoteliers. The meeting place for all guided tours is ‘Salon Interior.Architecture.Hospitality’ in Foyer 4.0.

At 11.00 on Wednesday, 13 January, and on Friday, 15 January, ‘AIT’ magazine and a leading international interior architect will present product innovations for the contract business. The tour on the Wednesday will be guided by Ushi Tamborriello (ushitamborriello Innenarchitektur_Szenenbild). On the Friday, Sabine Krumrey (bki brandherm + krumrey) will guide interested visitors through the halls. Each tour will last about two hours. On 14 January, also at 11.00, AIT trend scouts will conduct a guided tour to the 15 products selected by architects and interior architects.

In cooperation with the trade journal HotelDesign/AHGZ, Heimtextil is inviting decision-makers from the hotel industry on a tour of the trade fair: accompanied by Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk from the Hamburg architectural practice, JOI Design, and Denise Boxler, Head of Design at Pentahotels, participants will be able to gain an overview of furnishing trends in the hotel and contract business. The tours begin at 11.30 and 15.00 on 14 January 2016.

Overview of guided tours for architects and hoteliers

 

Textiles have a long tradition in interior design, playing an important role in all areas of architecture: accessories, furniture, the creation of zones within rooms, acoustics, sun protection, as well as facades and roofs.

Fresh inspiration every day: follow Design Textiles on Facebook to discover the range of design possibilities that textiles can offer, as well as their space-defining and functional properties in architectural terms. 

Follow Design Textiles on Facebook

 

Advertorial

Material Tendencies N° 10: Färg & Blanche

Fredrik Färg and Emma Marga Blanche like to combine industrial production and exclusive handcraft. The works of the Swedish-French design duo often have a tailored, yet playful, touch – showing that their experiments, in particular in textiles, could be applied to mass production.

Architonic met Färg & Blanche in Milan and discussed their hands-on experimentations with materials.

Emma Marga Blanche and Fredrik Färg - Photo © Architonic

'Textiles. Because there is a lot of innovation happening. You can go from being flat to having volume – you cut, you shape, you tailor, you construct. It can be used for many different things. The more we work with textiles, the more we get into the material. It is fascinating in every way.'

Read this article in full on Architonic

 

Advertisement
Copyright © 2015 Architonic AG, All rights reserved.

You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed on www.architonic.com or granted permission at a fair or by e-mail. Sie erhalten diesen Newsletter, weil Sie ihn auf www.architonic.com abonniert haben, oder uns anderweitig hierzu Genehmigung erteilt haben.