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Cologne 2011: young designer Anne Lorenz presented this storage chest modelled on an enormous handbag as part of [D3] Design Talents at imm cologne last week.

Called Home Traveller, the leather bag on legs is designed to be moved around without occupying a fixed place on the home.

imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »

Here’s a little bit of text from Lorenz:

Home Traveller was part of my graduation project at HFG Karlsruhe/Germany. It is a combination of a handbag and furniture – a play with those archetypes. The portable storage unit can easily be carried from one place to another and be arranged in the living space like an accessory. Instead of a normal furniture it has no fixed place in the room. It is as spacious like a chest but more flexible in the use.

Materials: Leather, wood.

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Built to Resi(s)t by Quinze & Milan and Eastpak	Tassenkast by Lotty Lindeman	More Cologne 2011 coverage

Modo is a commode designed by Daniel Neugebauer and manufactured by strukturteam. You won´t need tools to build up this piece of furniture!

Cologne 2011: Berlin designer Mark Braun presented a series of cylindrical plywood stools at imm cologne in Germany last week.

Called Ton, the collection includes stools in three different heights, each with a slot cut out to form a handle.

imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs interviewed Mark Braun as part of our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents at the fair. Movies of all the talks will be shown on Dezeen soon. Meanwhile you can see films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here.

Photographs are by Inka Recke.

The information that follows is from Mark Braun:

TON – a wooden stool series

TON is made out of laminated wood in bleeched and smoaked oak. Different stool types offering functional hights useful as step, stool and leaning aid and stackable as they are you can also use them as occasional tables.

Flexible use is also supported by the large grip hole for carring your TON as a suitcase – and beside that the grip hole creates a formal icon to underline the beauty of a pure but characteristic form.

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Reichtum by Mark Braun for Lobmeyr	More about Cologne 2011	Authentic Wood by Le Corbusier

Cologne 2011: designer Mike Meiré invited visitors to a fetish club furnished with customised design classics at his Cologne factory during the imm cologne trade fair last week

At the end of a winding corridor visitors found chairs by designers including Marcel Breuer and Eileen Gray, draped with chains, straps, surveillance equipment and masks, intended to contrast with the trade fair’s sleek product presentations.

imm cologne took place 18-23 January. See all our coverage of the event here »

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The information that follows is from Mike Meiré:

As part of the Passagen for the imm cologne furniture trade fair, Mike Meiré presents his installation “Back Room – adults only” in his Factory in Cologne Ehrenfeld.

The exhibition confronts us with the bewildering notion that furniture could have its own life, a dark alter-ego that questions the supposed certainties of marketing and the design staples of the good, the beautiful and the true which the trade fair presents year after year with great pomp and circumstance.

Mike Meiré transforms his Cologne Factory into a difficult to access back room which can only be reached along a labyrinthine corridor.

The spatial deconstruction of the corridor is an artistic coup which maximises the effect of the passage as a portal to a recessed, forbidden world.

With this mental preparation, one enters the “Back Room” which quickly reveals itself to be a dark room with clear sexual connotations and where icons of design history such as the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer or the Day Bed by Eileen Gray discard their bourgeois innocence and reservedness.

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Global Street Food by Mike Meiré	Jean Nouvel at Cologne 2011	Frederik Roijé at Cologne 2011