Content-Services

The Content Folders provide editorial content on a wide range of topics relating to furnishing and interior lifestyle. Throughout the year – well in advance of the furniture and interior design show imm cologne and the components and materials trade fair interzum – koelnmesse publishes this background information in the form of folders that have been researched by journalists for journalists. Each dossier contains reports, product news and interviews on a specific topic area.

02 Design in Germany: a look beneath the smooth Bauhaus surface of the German design scene – at young and established designers, companies and German interiors as an expression of the nation’s soul.

05 Design in Spain: a look at the Spanish design tradition and some unconventional creative concepts – with a survey essay, an entertaining feature and plenty of portraits and interviews.

06 Trends and Design: The trends of the 2009 furniture season. But the focus of this folder isn’t just on current interior design: it also sheds some light on changing living habits and investigates the requirements sustainable design will have to satisfy in the future.

08 Trend Book – Interior Trends 2010: Explains the interior design trends of the coming season as presented in the imm cologne’s Trend Book and reveals how they were identified.

09 Business by Design: The latest Content Folder looks at how business and design are interlinked on the basis of product examples, interviews, market reports and portraits.

10_Trends and Design: The 2010 season’s trends for the interior design sector. With the new furniture, lifestyle trends, Pure Village and questions on the future of the trade fair landscape. With a room doctor and 29 faces from the next designer generation.

11 Cologne - Design + Lifestyle: A collection of articles, tips, info and background analysis about the city which, at the beginning of every year, hosts the Cologne Design Week and turns into a buzzing design hotspot with numerous events at galleries and museums – and especially the trade fair.

12 LivingKitchen: This is all about kitchens - exhibiting companies are giving their statements, designers have their says, and association are giving account on their work. Further more: professional article and an essay.

13 Trendbook 2011: For the seventh year in succession, the Trend Book on the imm cologne 2011 will be presenting the latest trends from the world of interior design are described in detail.

14 Trends and Design 2011 - latest innovations, new products presented at the imm cologne and the LivingKitchen 2011, the D3 design talents interviews with Patricia Urquiola, Pierre Rosset, Gerald Böse and Dick Spierenburg, Designer's Voice with Neuland and the Bouroullec brothers and many, many more.

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Older Content Folders are available from the Archive.