With the Inspiration design pool concept, REHAU is once more asserting its expertise as innovative development partner to the furniture industry. With the unique Inspiration design pool, that has developed a wide variety of creative decorative designs in cooperation with a team of young designers, REHAU is now looking anew at the idea of edgings as crucial design elements. In this way, the company is opening up hitherto entirely unexplored dimensions and producing versatile creative decorative designs that start a fresh chapter in the design history and importance of edgings.
Maximum creativity Baroque-look floral elements, a novel type of ornamentation that is graphical, geometrical and colourful all at the same time, braiding Asia-style and Op Art in popular black and white – the unique quality of the designs is truly impressive.
The desire for more individuality and a more personal touch to design, plus an ever more obvious trend towards more love of detail are bringing the design focus further onto edging elements. No longer are edgings mere functional but decoratively neutral elements lost in the overall look of the room or living area – edgings are now defining these spaces anew. They are now prominent and set the tone. The edgings link surfaces one to the other or visually separate them. They provide creative space for repeating patterns, give the impression of movement and they create illusions. The design role of edgings is more versatile than ever before.
Inspiration for new ideas The Inspiration design pool provides customers with a wide variety of accentuating deco elements to choose from, but the main aim is to inspire new ideas which REHAU, in cooperation with the customer, then develops and brings to fruition. In so doing, imagination has no limits – the application options the designs afford are as unique as their looks. Creative shopfitting or interior fitting, kitchen, bathroom, living room or office – decorative designs from the Inspiration design pool bring a breath of fresh air wherever they are used.
“Inspiration – Individual Design Solutions by REHAU”
“Inspiration – Individual Design Solutions by REHAU” sets out the history of edgings as design elements and throws light on their numerous uses.
With this 160 page book, worked on closely with Gerd Ohlhauser, whose input has been crucial to its design as regards both text and rich illustrations, REHAU is breaking new ground in the field of communication.
“Inspiration” goes beyond the concepts of sales literature and pattern catalogue. “Inspiration” is a design-oriented and descriptive publication. It makes plain just what broad dimensions such a comparatively neutral, minimal element as the edgeband can assume in overall furniture and room design.
Expert contributions from renowned design specialists such as Professor Volker Fischer and Professor Axel Venn, provide ideas – some factual and retrospective, some visionary and modern.
Information about the “Inspiration – Individual Design Solutions by REHAU” publication is available from: communication.moebel@rehau.com