Since a few days we are also on Facebook! We are publishing and collecting background infos on trend subjects. You are warmly invited to post your tips and trend news to the bulletin board. We are curious! The new trend-books you find here >
In the fall of 2009 Kairos Future set out on a journey, together with Husqvarna and Gardena, searching for the holy grail of gardening. The result: The Global Garden Report 2010. What is gardening all about? What do gardeners do, think about, live for? What is at the heart of modern gardening in different parts of the globe? Those were the questions that global garden equipment brands Husqvarna and Gardena were looking for answers to. The mission of the journey was to find the drivers, passions, and expressions of modern gardening, as expressed by those who care the most – passionate garden lovers. To find true garden lovers, the trend scouts chose the driver that is reshaping the world more than anything else: the social media landscape. Here passionate garden lovers express their worldview everyday in hundreds of thousands of blogs and blogposts. More informations and books on the topic Gardening you find here >
After the successes of the three previous editions of International Floral Art, the fourth edition is bound to be another massive hit among florists and flower lovers. The aim of this biannual publication is to give a state of the art of innovative floral art in the world. Stichting Kunstboek’s internationally renowned network of floristry schools, master classes and floral designers vouches for hundreds of entries. The 2010-11 edition assembles personalities and creations that display the rich potential and variety in floristry today. More about this book and others on the subject Floristic >
The Luminale – Biennial of Lighting Culture is taking place every two years in Frankfurt/Main during the tradeshow Light + Building. The CD is the documentation of the fifth edition in 2010. Luminale is one of the top events in ‘Creative Germany’. About 160 light events in and around Frankfurt/M. presented ideas and concepts. 140,000 visitors experienced the fascination of light. The festival curated by Helmut M. Bien is a special challenge for lighting designers. Luminale is well known for it’s qualities as an international campus of the creative world. More about Luminale and other books on the subject Light >
Black is just as white a non-color. However, this could not stopp the career from black. On the contrary. Once priests and widows dressed black, today architects, designers, creative people often prefer black as dresscode. Minimalism and reduction (Less is more) have strengthened this trend towards the renunciation of colors. Michel Pastoureaus follows the historical tracks of this trend. We have some copies with some shortages for you on offer: Michel Pastoureau: Black – The History of a Color (now 25.00 instead of 42.00 euros). This book and other specials you finde here >
‘Detail in Contemporary Kitchen Design’ features more than 30 kitchen designs from around the world, each created by a notable architect for a specific residence. Arranged into chapters according to the dominant material used – stone, timber and steel – each design is accompanied by an image of the whole house, clear photographs of the kitchen itself and a floor plan showing its relation to the other spaces within the house. Detailed photographs and architectural drawings show the arrangement and construction of the kitchens, and sections and elevations reveal the construction details of fitted units and joinery. A selection of insightful case studies include interviews with clients, designers and manufacturers and provide an overview of the whole process of commissioning and creating a contemporary bespoke kitchen. The book could be used as a preparation for the imm cologne
The Luminale 2010 – We offer the documentation for the first time as eBook. The eBook has 107 pages, round about 100 pictures, informations, links and videos to projects and participants. The eBook you can download immediately on your computer after the order process. The eBook to download: 14,90 Euro.
Ed. by Helmut M. Bien, Markus Helle
• The first professional guide for the international lighting design scene – appears every two years
• Roundabout 100 current projects for urban spaces, buildings, shopfitters and night life
• Almanac with industry-related information about designers, manufacturers, fairs, exhibitions, awards
Light is a 21st century building material. New technologies that precisely control light and are economical into the bargain are opening up unimagined design potential. The urbanisation of the world, ecological challenges and worlds of work which stretch across time zones demand an architecture of light. Architects, designers and artists become the directors of light: they see buildings and spaces as three-dimensional media which tell stories. The dream of an immaterial, ethereal architecture is receiving fresh sustenance. The book presents the players who are marking out current international trends with their light concepts: for office buildings, in urban planning as well as for cultural buildings and urban night life.
The authors are Helmut M. Bien, curator of the Luminale – Biennale of lighting culture and Markus Helle, editor in chief of the journal “Highlight”.
248 Seiten/pages, Sprache/language: english, 49,90 Euro
The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (14.6.2009) reports that 26 million Germans cultivate 22 million gardens and invest just 15 Millarden Euro in plants, flowers, garden piece of furniture, lighting, grills. A big market and here you find a choice of the new books around the subject Gardening. You find a big assortment of books directly in our shop on the spoga fair ground in the Passage between Hall 10/11.
Deutschland – Österreich – Schweiz
Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg des ersten Bandes werden im neuen Buch der “Gärtner von Eden” 100 weitere Traumgärten vorgestellt. Wieder vermitteln detaillierte Pläne und umfangreiches Bildmaterial lebhafte Eindrücke von wahren Garten-Paradiesen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Buch bietet eine Fülle von Inspirationen für alle Gartenliebhaber, die ihr Grün neu planen oder einfach über eine Veränderung nachdenken wollen. Am Beispiel von 100 realisierten Gartensituationen werden die besonderen Probleme und Lösungsmöglichkeiten erläutert. Es gibt Gärten für jede Größe, jeden Geschmack und jeden Nutzungsanspruch. Designfreunde, Genießer, Ästheten und Naturmenschen finden hier garantiert einen anregenden Garten-Entwurf.
256 Seiten/pages, Sprache/language: deutsch, 59,95 Euro