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Martini Sessel by StudioFaubel for Müller Möbelfabrikation, as seen at IMM Cologne 2018
Designer | 22.01.2018

IMM Cologne 2018 Compact: Martini Sessel by StudioFaubel for Müller Möbelfabrikation

The English playwright and composer Noël Coward is widely attributed to have once opined that, "a perfect Martini should be made by filling a glass with gin, then waving it in the general direction of Italy" We can't confirm if Munich based StudioFaubel employed the grand raconteur's advice in the development of their Martini Sessel for Müller Möbelfabrikation. The result is however equally as satisfying..... Martini Sessel by StudioFaubel for Müller Möbelfabrikation, as seen at IMM Cologne

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Loop Lounge Rope from Vincent Sheppard, as seen at IMM Cologne 2017
Designer | 23.01.2017

IMM Cologne 2017: High Five!!

As a fair IMM Cologne 2017 didn't impress, but one or the other product did. Our IMM Cologne 2017 High Five!! And a few words of comfort from Epictetus. IMM Cologne 2017: High Five!! Staged as it in mid-January IMM Cologne is not only the first event in our new diaries, but, coming as it does after a period when we've been distracted by life in its full technicolour glory, often the hardest. How quickly have we come out of the post-holiday starting blocks? Are we mentally and physically

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Müller Möbelfabrikation @ IMM Cologne 2016
Designer | 23.01.2016

IMM Cologne 2016: Müller Möbelfabrikation

2016 sees Augsburg based manufacturer Müller Möbelfabrikation celebrate their 20th anniversary, and to mark their round birthday the company have gifted themselves, and by extrapolation us all, a new round(er) form. Round(er) for despite their inherent quadraticness Müller Möbelfabrikation objects have always had a curvaceous soul; be that as expressed through the subtle contours of the grandiose TB 229 desk from the company's original 1996 Classic Line collection, or more obvious as with, for

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IMM Cologne 2015 Müller Möbelfabrikation PS 04 Kressel + Schelle oak steel
Designer | 02.02.2015

IMM Cologne 2015: Müller Möbelfabrikation

Contrary to popular legend, a change is not as good as a rest. It's better. For whereas after a rest one just carries on ploughing the same furrow, change means new experiences and the gorgeous, invigorating, uncertainty of not knowing where the new path will take you. After neigh on 18 years of producing refreshingly individual objects from sheet steel, and sheet steel alone, in 2014 Augsburg based Müller Möbelfabrikation began a flirtation with wood in context of their Stack sideboard/room

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Antonio Citterio pivot orgatec vitra
Designer | 03.10.2014

(smow) blog compact: To work sitting or standing, that is the question....

Whether 'tis nobler in the muscles to suffer The slings and arrows of short telomeres, Or to rise up against a sea of troubles, And by standing, extend them? In addition to articles on the wonders of handmade Swedish butter, the problems of supermarket etiquette and ill thought through editorials on the Scottish referendum, the English newspaper "The Guardian" occasionally publishes readable articles, one such being Dr Luisa Dillner's recent "Is sitting down bad for my health?" Citing

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(smow) blog compact IMM Cologne Special Müller Möbelfabrikation Stack
Designer | 23.01.2014

(smow) blog compact IMM Cologne Special: Müller Möbelfabrikation

It may have been because at IMM Cologne 2014 they were given a larger stand than in previous years. It may just have been that the time was ripe. The "why" is however ultimately unimportant, what is important is that at IMM Cologne 2014 Augsburg based Müller Möbelfabrikation presented a series of new products that decisively extended the company's portfolio, a series of new products that, in our opinion, make Müller Möbelfabrikation a more rounded, more complete company. And which achieved

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Antonio Citterio pivot orgatec vitra
Architecture | 25.12.2013

(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: February

IMM Cologne kept us busy into February, but the month also saw the opening of an Eileen Gray retrospective in Paris, a visit to the Louis Kahn exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum and the sad passing of James Irvine....

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IMM Cologne 2013 PS 07 Bureau by Delphin Design for Müller Möbelfabrikation

IMM Cologne 2013: PS 07 Bureau by Delphin Design for Müller Möbelfabrikation

There are few things more pleasing in the world of furniture design than seeing a designer successfully replicating a winning form in a new object from another product genus. Seamlessly translating an idea developed for one project into a new context. A particularly good example of such a translation can be seen in the PS 07 bureau by Berlin based Delphin Design for Müller Möbelfabrikation. If we're honest, when we saw the PS 07 on the Müller stand at IMM Cologne 2013, although we noticed a

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Orgatec 2012 WORKSPACE by Müller Möbelfabrikation

Orgatec 2012: WORKSPACE by Müller Möbelfabrikation

At Orgatec 2012 Augsburg based Müller Möbelfabrikation introduced their new WORKSPACE product range(s). Developed in cooperation with Andreas Struppler and Sebastian Frank from Munich based Struppler Industriedesign, WORKSPACE is technically two ranges - WORK and SPACE, or "Labor et Spatium" for any scholars of historic furniture design who may be reading - that combine to create a modular office furniture system. WORK is represented by two height adjustable desks, one electronic the other

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Orgatec 2012 Müller Möbelfabrikation
Designer | 19.10.2012

Orgatec 2012: A Factory Visit to Müller Möbelfabrikation

Established in 1996 by three friends with a shared passion for classic metal furniture, Müller Möbelfabrikation has grown steadily over the last decade and a half into one of Europe's most interesting contemporary furniture manufacturers. They don't do anything especially revolutionary, and there is certainly no danger of them ever redefining the fabric of furniture design. However, they are currently producing some of the most interesting, brash and accessible furniture on the market, and

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IMM Köln 2012 Müller Möbelfabrikation colour
Designer | 20.01.2012

IMM Köln 2012: Müller Möbelfabrikation

A drawer. Honestly that is all it takes and you’ve got us. A desk with a drawer. Or even better multiple drawers. As if Müller Möbelfabrikation could read our minds, we were met on their stand in Cologne by the most fantastic sheet steel desk. With soooo many drawers. If that's not a guaranteed to way to get our attention! If we did have one slight criticism it would be the decision to display a version in orange. If there is one colour that is real hard to photograph under exhibition

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Designer | 24.01.2011

IMM Cologne 2011: Müller Möbelfabrikation

One of the unfortunate weaknesses of IMM Cologne is the general lack of new products on show - either at the fair itself or out and about at the fringe events. That's not 100% IMM's fault rather the collective failing of a furniture industry that continues to focus, almost paranoid, on the Milan Design Week. Fortunately there are one or two producers who are prepared to use IMM to launch new products - including Augsburg based Müller Möbelfabrikation. Perhaps most eye catching of Müller

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Designer | 02.03.2010

new at (smow): Müller Möbelfabrikation

As you know we here at smow(blog) aren't fans of complicated designer furniture. Really aren't. Less is more - so the grand theologian of post-war European design Dieter Rams - and let form follow function. That's us. A side table or bedside unit need, normally, do nothing more than support a cup, glass or magazine. Now you could add numerous extras to your table or you could - as with Müller Möbelfabrikation - bend some steel into the shape you want. In 1926 Mart Stam bent some steel

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