AWARDS | INTERZUM 2017
03 04 05 PROFESSOR MARTIN STOSCH
INTERZUM : Professor Stosch, looking at this year's Best of the Best and High Quality Products, where do you see the biggest potential for innovation? MS : I think the biggest opportunity for development at present is in the area of functional fi ttings, which have been reducing in size dramatically, as well as in the materials sector. New materials always have the potential for new uses and functions. It's exciting to see long-established manufacturing technologies are being combined intelligently, giving rise to new components. If you ask me where it's all heading, I believe that in future we'll see a lot of fi ttings disappearing in the furniture panel. In addition, the individual elements are becoming ever more elegant and smaller, almost invisible. The interior of the carcass of a piece of furniture will be fi nished to the same aesthetic standards as we have long since come to expect of the exterior.
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INTERZUM : So how much importance would you attach to interzum? MS : For us as wood technologists who
After completing his high school diploma, carpentry apprenticeship and interior architecture studies, Professor of Engineering Martin Stosch was initially employed as a product developer. In 2000, he took up a post lecturing in industrial furniture manufacturing. Since 2003 his university research and teaching has been focused on the lightweight construction of furniture.
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train specialists and managers for the furniture and furniture supply industry, interzum is by far the most important fair in the fi eld. This is where we can see and actually touch the latest product innovations – it is a platform where truly new products and ideas are presented. I always make interesting discoveries on my visits to the fair. Also, interzum is like a family get-together for the industry.
INTERZUM : What would you like to see from the furniture construction industry in the future? MS : We need to make better furniture with less and less materials and think about more sustainable solutions. I would like to see the furniture supply industry develop something like the concept cars of the automotive industry – trying out playful and visionary things that show a perspective on the future. I'm certain, the future belongs to lightweight furniture construction.
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