DOMOTEX 2012 THE CARPET COMEBACK
Carpets are now an indispensible part of fashion-conscious interior design; adding comfort and cosiness to a room and working well with the ultra-modern, minimalist furnishing styles that are currently very popular. This carpet renaissance is giving designers a whole new creative palette, and the most innovative new creations will receive the recognition they deserve at the Carpet Design Awards at this year’s Domotex.
The Carpet Design Awards are a prestigious international competition for hand-made carpets and rugs. Entries, which can be made in a total of 10 categories, are judged against a range of criteria,
including design, quality of materials, product features and innovation. The upcoming awards will also this year feature a new category: Best Studio Artist Design, for limited-edition carpets and rugs
MATCH & MEET
This year’s Domotex is being supported by Match & Meet; a new Internet-based service that intelligently matches Domotex exhibitors with relevant visitors, enabling them to plan their visit accordingly, and helping put exhibitors in touch with new business contacts.
To use the Match & Meet service, trade visitors simply create a personal profile at
www.domotex.de, indicating the products and services they are interested in. Exhibitors need only register for the Match & Meet service. They do not need to create a profile, as this information, including
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details of their company and products, will already be contained in their exhibitor profile and will automatically be transferred to the Match & Meet system. Match & Meet uses special software to identify points in common between the profiles of registered providers and seekers. Users thus receive
lists of matches, complete with contact details, so that they can contact potential partners directly to arrange meetings.
“Our new matchmaking service gives companies a highly effective tool for initiating new business. It helps put them in touch with relevant business contacts and gives them access to new target groups,”
explained Susanne Klaproth, the Domotex Project Director at Deutsche Messe.
The service aims to help visitors plan their time at the fair more effectively and gives them all-year-round access to highly targeted information on products and providers of interest to them, so make sure you sign up in time for the show!
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designed/produced by artists and textile studios. The judges will be looking for creations characterised by sophisticated design elements, unique material qualities, weave types and colours. The new category provides greater international exposure for avant-garde, pioneering carpet designs, and the best three entries in each category will be on display at the show. Among the judges for the 2012 Carpet Design Awards is Nina Yashar, whose “Nilafur” gallery in Milan is internationally recognised and respected for its quality classic and modern designer furniture
and carpets. Also judging will be James A. Ffrench, a director of Beauvais Carpets, New York, and a highly esteemed past jury member. Ffrench is in no doubt as to the importance of carpets to design and interior furnishing, and commented: “Carpets create dialogue between all the various elements of a room’s décor. A well chosen carpet brings all of these elements together as an integrated whole. Without carpet, rooms always seem incomplete and empty – irrespective of how magnificent the other furnishings might be.”
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