Curated annually by the German Design Council on behalf of Cologne Trade Fair the [D3] Contest is an international competition for young designers that reaches its conclusion every January with an exhibition and awards ceremony at IMM. The 2014 edition attracted over 600 entries, 22 of which made it onto the short list and so into the Cologne exhibition. And while we retain our well-founded distrust of design competitions, we do know that the [D3] Contest exhibition is a regular haunt of those
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That furniture often has a cultural background can probably be best observed in chairs: the cultural background often defining, for example, the height, number and position of legs. That wall hooks can also have a cultural basis is new to us. But in the case of the North American Shaker community they would appear to. Traditionally Shaker homes have a wooden bar that runs round a room onto which at regular intervals hooks are attached. Meaning you're never more than a couple of metres from a
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As with all furniture trade fairs IMM annually gives part of the floor space over to young, up and coming, designers. In three themed sections "d3 Design Talents" offers space for design colleges - d3 Schools - those further on the way to establishing themselves - d3 Professionals - and a competition - d3 Contest. "Space" is however not only a relative term - but one that cannot be defined by physical measurements. As we learned on the journey to Congress-Centrum Ost! d3 Design Talents : d3
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