Interior Design Week Cologne 2010 - Preview

I am very pleased to find that it appears 2010 will be a busy year for interior design! The year starts with ambitious projects - mainly in Cologne:  

Interior Design Week 18 - 24 January 2010: "An exhibition event focusing on current trends in design – particularly interior design. The exhibitors are institutions and museums, including Museum Ludwig and the Museum of Applied Art , universities, design offices, initiatives, showrooms, galleries, networks, furniture stores and international manufacturers."                            Christine Ruff Ceramic 

PASSAGEN 2010 is opening the international design season with "projects and presentations by the crème de la crème of the international designer scene... Whether classic soloists or young networks, universities, newcomers, institutions, architects, the media or agents: They are all neighbors for a week; densely-strung pearls on a design route through Cologne ’s inner city – and since recently in the Ehrenfeld and Mülheim districts.

PASSAGEN 2010 is a design symposium that tackles the topic “Context:Design.” It presents design “live” and 1-to-1 in an interplay with architecture. It addresses the reciprocal effects of art and design, includes the issue of social demands on design – particularly the topics sustainability and ecology, as well as urbanism and aesthetics.

From 18 to 24 January 2010 runs also the second DESIGNERS FAIR held in Cologne. After over 20,000 visitors “stormed in” in the first year, organizers have increased the space available to exhibitors to about 4,000 m² – on which over 65 furniture and interior designers are exhibiting their new products. The first DESIGNERS FAIR in 2009 consciously focused on young German designers – as of 2010, it’s also open to international exhibitors.
Some exhibitors' previews: 

The CEDON collection (left) is being presented
to the public in its full scope for
the first time during PASSAGEN. 

The trend for authentic sustainable design with lasting quality and value is going to be clearly presented at Cologne:

in the hand-crafted luxury kitchen
Heavy Beauty by manufacturer IB
Möbelwerkstätten, clear aesthetics
and robust materials unite to become
furniture for generations. The concept
combines clean lines and regional
materials – such as solid wood,
greywacke and stainless steel – with
professional appliances to create sensuous
living space. 

It is good to find that there will be interesting new furniture for children:

Sixeight children’s furniture is a
sophisticated, Bauhaus-oriented
designer furniture system for the
child’s room of today and tomorrow.

TEAM 7, market leader for eco-design furniture, presents the new collection Lanoo – which reinvents rooms for kids and teens from their perspective.