Still euphoric from the inspiring Trend Show during the last fair for home and contract textiles, the Heimtextil Trendtable began its work for the 2014/15 season. Six international design studios exchanged ideas and opinions about future design developments at a meeting in Frankfurt am Main on 7 and 8 March 2013.
Thus, the foundation stone has been laid for the presentation of future-oriented design trends at the next Heimtextil in January 2014. A British design studio, FranklinTill, has assumed responsibility for interpreting the Heimtextil Trends 2014/15. During the two-day workshop, design experts from Brazil, France, Great Britain, Japan, The Netherlands and the USA deliberated on the latest trends from the fields of interior design,
architecture, fashion, design and art. “Thanks to its supra-continental composition, the
Heimtextil Trends Team is in the privileged position of being able to draw on an extremely wide pool of inspiration and to gain exciting perspectives on tomorrow’s interior design”,
reports Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President Textiles & Textile Technologies of Messe Frankfurt. With ten months to go before the next Heimtextil opens its doors, the international designers analyzed a wide variety of new materials, textures, colors and patterns from all over the world.
At the end of the process, they produced a trend prognosis for the coming 18 months, which is valid for the whole world and forms the basis for the Heimtextil Trend Book and the Trend Show during the fair.
With FranklinTill at the helm, the Heimtextil Trends will benefit from influences from the British Isles and their Londonbased studio comprising of trend researchers, designers and stylists, together with their worldwide network of creatives and visionaries who work with trend experts and founders of FranklinTill, Kate Franklin and Caroline Till. In addition to Caroline Till, Ann Kristin Abel of the British design agency will also work on the Heimtextil Trends.
