The D3 contest young designer’s competition at the imm produced in collaboration with the German Design Council is a favourite hunting ground for manufacturers looking to pick up new talent. Here the modular ‘Crate shelf’ system from Dutch designer Martin Born

“今年根本没有趋势！一位记者在IMM科隆家具博览会上的火车上痛斥一位记者，我不知道我们是否参加过同样的活动。诚然，如果你正在寻找BLASH或所有费用无关的时尚陈述，Cologne不是地方，但是由经济衰退和环境意识引起的意识转变非常有证据。除了提到“生态”的问题和一些明目张胆的绿色洗涤的例子，有一个明显的噱头缺乏和一般的感觉回到简单和传统。巨大的编织物像其他手工艺品的例子一样丰满，比如制作精良的木制家具和装饰性的缝合覆盖物。公平的组织者强调设计的概念性策略和社区对不同程度的成功的想法：新的“纯村庄”部分（由Dick Spierenburg设计）在大厅11是一个产品和公司在一个建筑环境中显示的一个杂烩。中央广场。这里也有设计师的公开讲座，比如Max Lamb解释他们工作中涉及的过程。DeZeN的Marcus Fairs主持了与James Irvine、ToNET的创意总监和D3设计人才部OK工作室的设计师汤姆斯阿隆索的多次会谈，该小组还从设计小组和大学中安装了许多装置，以探索新的L方式的实验。伊文。不得不说，IMM在开幕式两天似乎有点安静，相比之下，米兰的疯狂的多人，但这似乎相当适合制造商。E15的合作伙伴Peter Wesner说：“米兰只是为了老板们的访问”，一个新产品必须展示出来，并融入到收藏中，但它也必须被销售，为此，你需要你的销售人员有机会与经销商见面和交谈。他解释说，将整个销售团队运送到米兰是一项非常昂贵的业务，尤其是在预算紧张的情况下，科隆博览会在这方面仍然是可以管理的。虽然一些公司因其高度减少的存在而引人注目，但其他一些公司，如Classicon，在几年的户外表演之后，重新回到了集市上。一个特别吸引我们眼球的新人物是J·罗格-谢尔曼，他那严肃而美丽的比例的角形钢框架家具，毫不矫揉造作的现代和工业外观。谢尔曼的40年背景

The Designer’s Fair in Cologne hosted a large selection of young designers and independent makers. We were particularly pleased to see that Eva Marguerre’s lightweight Nido stool series has made it into production thanks to fibreglass manufacturer Masson.

We featured one of Bauke Knottnerus’ sensually knotted couches in Nick Knight’s now infamous Soft Furnishings photo shoot in last year’s July issue. This new Phat Knit piece shown at the Designer’s Fair is, at 120kg, what you might call extra chunky. It is a bed that can roll up to be a sofa, or seat, or whatever you want really.

German design graduate Robert Haslbeck’s Under-Koffer table series inspired by foldaway wallpapering tables was quite an eyecatcher in the D3 contest section for young designers.

Young Stockholm designer Johanna Körberg's deconstructed chandelier Flamenco in the D3 contest was inspired by the emotion of Spanish dance and certainly had us clapping our hands in appreciation.

Young Swedish designers Sanna Lindström and Sigrid Strömgren’s Grand Central folding coffee table (demonstrated here by Sanna) opens out like a New York street map.

The Austrian architect Georg Bechter presented his Atelier Heimatstunden for the first time in Cologne at the imm this year and says he has been overrun with orders. This is not at all surprising given the stunning quality of his simple, yet beautifully made, table and bench combination made of solid pine and elm as well as a brilliant recessed lighting element that can be plastered into the wall.

The Munich-based designer Jörg Schellmann is best known for his artists’ editions for the likes of Donald Judd and Joseph Beuys - for the first time this year he presents his own collection of furniture at the imm. The industrial simplicity of the pieces and proportions make them artworks in their own right, like this lacquered steel chest of drawers with plastic containers called simply: ‘Storage’.

Jörg Schellmann’s new powder-coated steel ‘Library’ bookshelf with sliding aluminium doors in Hall 11 was one of the absolute highlights of the entire fair.

We have already grown to love the wood- and aluminium-framed versions of this unbelievably comfy Eve chair by Piero Lissoni at Cassina since its launch in Milan last year. But this new ivory lacquered version with softest cream leather has us completely rethinking the dining room colour scheme once again.

Cappellini presented its new tailor-made ‘Container System’ fitted wardrobes in Hall 11. A highly versatile system with three kinds of doors and five kinds of handles, it is just as lovely on the inside as out. This version with yellow matt lacquered doors had a pale, sage green interior.

The manufacturer Schönbuch specialises in functional furniture for hallways. Their latest ventures into the bedroom with dressing tables and chests of drawers shown at the fair left us a little cold to be honest. This simple coat hook and key-rest called ‘Saucer’ by Cologne-based Eric Degenhardt, however, was spot on.

Our favourite new product from Ligne Roset this year has to be the new Ruché sofa series by Inge Sempé, here in yellow velvet.

Inge Sempé arrived tired but happy after a delayed train trip from Paris to celebrate the launch of her new Ruché sofa series on the Ligne Roset stand – she had been up half the night putting the finishing touches to a series of sketches for the press release.

Another new addition to the Ligne Roset collection at the imm was this Ottoman chair by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance that is also available as a 2- or 3-seater sofa and stool.

Ligne Roset are celebrating their 150th birthday this year with 60 (!) new product ideas from 30 different designers. The La Plic wall light by Nathalie Dewez has to be one of the simplest but no less ingenious. The lateral bulb reflector and bent wire spring clip create lovely patterns of light that are particularly effective when hung in groups.

The entrance to Kolnmesse, the main fairground.

Two members of this year’s imm Trendboard, the designers Johanna Grawunder and Cecilie Manz designed spaces with products to illustrate the four main trends they had pinpointed for 2010 in the new Pure Village fair area. Here Grawunder’s interpretation of ‘Trickery’ as a sort of Dr Caligari’s cabinet featuring Bertjan Pot’s lovely revolving chandelier.

The little Italian architecture and design company Eugadesign were showing for the first time at the imm Cologne and brought this lovely new table lamp prototype in brushed aluminium.

The new Jalis sofa landscape from Cor comes mounted on its own podium. The inspiration is North African and heralds a cosy return to the sunken seating area and shagpile.

Walter Knoll’s new Black Series is a lovely monochrome take on a few of our favourites including the 369, the Vostra, PearsonLloyd’s Turtle and the MYchair by UN Studio/ Ben van Berkel.

The Walter Knoll Turtle from 2004 designed by PearsonLloyd is now available in black as part of their new Black Series ‘classics in a new look’.

Stuttgart-based producer Richard Lampert celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of German architect and designer Herbert Hirche by re-issuing a few more of his great modernist designs to the collection. We particularly liked this bar trolley design from 1956.