As with all major furniture trade fairs, Cologne also has it's fringe events; indeed throughout they city museums, shops and other businesses have taken the opportunity to present some aspect of modern furniture.
Not as much as one finds in Milan during the Saloni week; but an awful lot more than Leipzig manages during Designers Open.
Sadly.
The main "off-messe" focus is Designers Fair in .... well were not entirely sure what.
That the building housing Designers Fair was previously some form of administrative building is clear; but just what we don't know.
But the location is wonderful.
On the ground and the first floor each exhibitor has a former office as their display space; the run down corridors perfectly complementing the extremely high quality of the work on display.
Now we discovered a couple of true gems at Designers Fair, but rather than blow all our powder here; we've decided to portion it over the coming posts....
You've been warned...
