Illuminating fabric

The “Featured Editions”, curated jointly by the imm cologne and Stylepark, this year had a theme of their own. And it will have been hard to miss, as several of the podiums drew attention to the fact, as did a very special demonstration outside the trade-fair grounds entitled “Gib Dir Stoff”. Across the total of ten areas scattered around between the trade-fair booths in the “Pure” halls, selected manufacturers had teamed up with designers to serve up a great range of interpretations of fabrics and yarns – and these interacted marvelously with specific furniture items and the spaces. It seemed only logical to address aspects of textile design and the properties of the materials used for different textiles, especially as this year at “Pure Textiles” countless textile editors presented their novelties as part of the imm cologne. Visitors considered one approach to the theme to be particularly exciting – namely that taken by Création Baumann with a floor-to-ceiling abstract installation made of light-conducting yarns. It won the first prize in the newly launched public voting scheme. (mm)