Direct from Market: ICFF
By Bessie Nestoras -- Gifts and Dec, 5/20/2010 8:29:00 AM
One doesn’t necessarily walk the International Contemporary Furniture Fair to shop. Attendees come for the inspiration. ICFF, held May 15–18, featured innovative products from around the world. From tabletop to flooring to outdoor
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Seletti |
furniture, the designs were cutting edge and most certainly imaginative. ICFF was co-located with the National Stationery Show, as well as licensing exposition Surtex.
Seletti’s tabletop collection gives new meaning to tablescapes. The company featured stacked plates with each layer being a plate, bowl or serving piece that forms a building. There are four designs, each featuring a sketch of a building. It’s a fun way to set the table and a great conversation starter for dinner guests.
There were many vendors at the show with green or sustainable products, among them Aswoon. Designer Susan Woods takes mattress springs and creates chairs, mirrors, gates screens and more. New on the scene is Peter Stathis & Virtual Studio who creates flat panel decorative lamps using LED lights. The lights are flat and thin and in the shape of a flower. They give off a soft light, 7½ watts, which is comparable to a 40 watt bulb. The light head is on an arm and can be adjusted to any angle.
There were several exhibitors familiar to the gift industry showing at ICFF. Design House Stockholm displayed its BoxLight. The lamp is hidden away in a box and to expose the light you simply slide the lid, allowing the user to control how much light is exposed. Step is a step ladder that, when hung on the wall, looks like a decorative
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Design House Stockholm |
wall piece. It is available in red, white or black.
Tracy Glover Studio was also exhibiting at the show and the designer, best known for her decorative glass lamps, showcased her latest creations: mouthblown glass vases and curtain finials. Another gift vendor at the show was Rainbow Vision Sand Pictures by Klaus Bösch, who creates pictures using sand. Each time the sand falls, it creates a new picture. When all the sand has fallen, flip it over to begin creating a new picture. With each tilt of the frame, the design is altered.
One of the more impressive booth displays was by LZF. The lighting company featured a giant butterfly made
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from wood veneer, the same material used for its lamps. The company offers table and floor lamps, as well as hanging lights. The designs take on an organic and fluid shape, and the wood is colored using a vegetable dye. The company also featured new screens in its line.
Rough and Perfect is a new company out of Columbus, OH, and featured a collection of decorative accessories made in the U.S.A. The items are just that – rough and perfect. The company’s latest offerings include iron or enamel prints on glass, some of which are illuminated, and set in a round wood frame. Also in the collection is a set of porcelain tumblers featuring animal images and repurposed dinnerware.
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Fabric Fantasia by the British European Design Group |
The British European Design Group featured Fabric Fantasia an exhibition illustrating how fashion, lifestyle and interiors overlap now. The display featured mannequins dressed in wallpaper and textiles. “Interiors have become fashion. Wallpaper and textiles can be translated into fashion,” said Karin-Beate Phillips of BEDG, curator of the exhibit.
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