Young Contract Creations Award 2010: Upholstery
Invitation to and participation conditions for the
Young Contract Creations Award 2010: Upholstery
powered by Polsterfashion and Trevira CS
In 2010, Heimtextil, the International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles, will for the third time organize the Young Contract Creations Award Upholstery; powered by Polsterfashion and Trevira CS.
In cooperation with our partners Trevira GmbH and the publishing house Verlag M. Ritthammer GmbH, the event will revolve around seating furniture in functionality and design for the contract sector.
Under the title “sit and wait,” Heimtextil’s focus for 2010 will be on the design of seating furniture for waiting areas: whether in public areas – counter areas, train stations or airports – or in traditional waiting areas in the health & care segment, nobody likes to wait, and many people frequently consider this time “lost.” The “experienced” waiting time is mainly characterized by the circumstances of waiting; and the atmosphere of waiting is a crucial factor for visitors and customers when deciding whether they wish to return to the waiting area.
With their seating furniture concepts, designers and interior architects can play a significant role in meeting the diverse challenges of waiting environments and turning a necessary evil into a pleasant experience: while conveying safety, transparency and trust is a priority for doctors’ or lawyers’ offices, and conveying a sense of service is important for government agencies, an airline may choose to enhance customer retention by expanding its services with exclusive airport lounges for short- and long-distance travellers.
The applicants may select their models for “sit and wait” (seating furniture for waiting areas) from these four topics:
- - Health & Care: designs for a waiting room in a doctor’s office or clinic
- - Public: designs for a lounge for travellers on charter flights (vacation destinations)
- - Public: designs for a lounge for frequent travellers (long distance flights in Business class)
- - Public: designs for a waiting area in a government agency (municipality, public agencies, courts)
The furniture submitted must take the following criteria into consideration:
- - the emotional challenges of the respective waiting environments
- - innovative shapes
- - practicability of use (e.g., easy re-design of arrangements)
- - wear resistance
- - low maintenance
- - low flammability of all materials
- - suitable for production standardization
- - sustainable use of all materials.
At the interface of interior architects and product and textile designers in connection with function-oriented challenges, the award will go to outstanding performances delivered by students majoring in the respective fields, to exam candidates and graduates. The aim is to develop innovative approaches and solutions with concrete implementation potential. Young talents will be promoted: they have the opportunity to present their designs to a broad audience at Heimtextil and, thus, make first contacts for a great start in their careers.
Task and participation conditions
Task
The participant designs and builds a prototype of a new, innovative piece of seating furniture for the design of waiting areas and sends both the construction plans and the piece of furniture to Messe Frankfurt in due time. The above named criteria must be complied with. The piece of seating furniture may accommodate one or more persons. Different materials may be combined in the piece of seating furniture; its characterizing element must be the use of a furniture textile. For his or her model, the participant selects textiles from a Trevira CS collection. Samples may be ordered at Messe Frankfurt, Ms. Kathrin Müller.
Participation conditions
The contest exclusively addresses students (majors / exam candidates / graduates with a degree received after 1 January 2009) of interior architecture, product design and related fields. For identification, please submit a copy of your student ID when registering for the contest.
Each participant may submit up to two works. These works must have been created exclusively for the contest and may not have previously been published in the press nor submitted for other contests and/or exhibitions. With their registration for the contest, the participants agree to not exhibit or present the works submitted for the contest at another textile- and/or interior-design-related event for a 3-month period upon the end of Messe Heimtextil.
Candidates may only be individuals; the submission of group works is not permitted.
Contest documents:plans, drafts, texts
- - plans: to scale and scaled, format: DIN A4 or DIN A3
- - text: description of the works on one DIN A4 page (210 x 297 mm) maximum, in German or English; allocation of the model to a selected theme; brief explanation on the compliance with the criteria; list of the material used for the corpus; details on the approximate weight of the piece of furniture
- - All submitted works must include the following data for clear identification: name of the participant, university, title of the work in German and English. Should this data be missing, your submission cannot be allocated and will, thus, not be considered.
- All documents (drafts, plans) are submitted to Messe Frankfurt at no fee. Documents will not be returned to the participants. Messe Frankfurt may use the submitted projects (particularly photos and/or illustrations) for publication purposes at no charge.
Contest documents: seating furniture
- - The criteria for waiting areas seating furniture (see page 1) must be complied with.
- - One element of the seating furniture must be upholstered with Trevira CS furniture textiles.
- - The required furniture textile will be furnished at no charge. Samples may be requested from Ms. Katrin Müller at Messe Frankfurt and must be completely returned to Messe Frankfurt immediately upon selection of the textiles.
- - All other materials may be chosen freely and must be procured by the participant.
- - There will be no reimbursement of expenses incurred for the implementation and the shipment/transport of the piece of furniture to Messe Frankfurt.
- - Uniform and clear labelling of all submissions (name, university, title of the work).
- - Please refrain from attaching adhesive labels to the furniture; attach labels that are clearly visible on the piece of furniture (with a cord/lace/plastic band).
Support / Sponsoring
The fibre manufacturer Trevira GmbH supports this contest and will procure in advance at no charge the required amount of textiles selected by the participants. Each participating university will be provided with different textile samples from the latest Trevira CS textiles collections for the upholstering/building of the furniture. One set of different samples will be provided per college/faculty. Upon selection, the samples are to be returned to Messe Frankfurt.
The rights to the crafted furniture will remain exclusively with the participant. Trevira and the textile manufacture will not be granted any rights for the textile sponsoring.
Messe Frankfurt invites all participants to attend the award ceremony during the Heimtextil trade fair in Frankfurt am Main. All accounted for travel costs to Frankfurt am Main as well as the costs for a one-night accommodation will be borne by Messe Frankfurt. All participants will receive an entrance ticket to the trade fair.
Submission of works and schedule
25 October 2009 deadline for the registration form, shipment of samples to the participants upon receipt of the registration form
10 November 2009 deadline for the receipt of award documents by Messe Frankfurt
21 December 2009 last date for the delivery of the furniture via mail/forwarder/courier
4 January 2010 personal delivery of the piece of furniture is possible only on this date and only upon previous appointment
13 – 16 January 2010 Messe Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Please send your works (plans and furniture) in due time, so that they arrive in Frankfurt at the aforementioned date at the latest. Earlier shipments may be possible upon notice.
Each participant shall be responsible for the on-schedule shipment of the drafts and the furniture.
Addressee:
- Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH
- Cargo Center
- Katrin Müller / Heimtextil
- Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
- 60327 Frankfurt am Main
- Germany
Jury
The jury is made up of:
- Heimtextil: Olaf Schmidt, Director Textile Fairs
- Trevira GmbH: Anja Greger, Product Development Hometextiles
- Verlag Matthias Ritthammer: Helmut Merkel, Editor in Chief of Polsterfashion magazine
- Furniture industry: Erik Stammberger, President of Willi Schillig Polstermöbelwerke GmbH & Co. KG
- Architecture: Bernd Hollin, President of Hollin+Radoske Architekten
The jury will evaluate the submitted works in a non-public meeting on 12 January 2010 and will determine the award winners. The jury’s decision is final and incontestable. Individuals will not be given reasons for the rejection of their work. There shall be no legal recourse and no entitlement to publishing.
Prizes and categories
The participants will receive prizes in the total amount of 5000.00 euros, plus an internship:
1st prize:
1500.00 euros for the university at which the winner is officially registered; 1500.00 euros and an internship for the duration of several weeks in the design department of a company active in the furniture industry, including an allowance for the award winner.
2 acknowledgement prizes:
in the amount of 1000.00 euros for each winner
Awards ceremony and exhibition of the works
The prizes will be awarded at Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main; the award winners will receive certificates. All works submitted will be presented to the exhibitors, visitors and press representatives at Heimtextil 2010 in a showcase.
In cooperation with its media partner Verlag Matthias Ritthammer GmbH, Messe Frankfurt will publicize the award and the winners in specialized media and to the public.
Transport and return shipment
Shipment/delivery of the furniture shall be at the risk and cost of the participant. All shipments should display the name of the addresser or the participant. To protect your works, please make sure to use appropriate and sufficient packaging materials.
The furniture exhibited during the trade fair may be picked up after the event, from 18 through 22 January 2010. Return shipment of the furniture shall only be possible in exceptional cases and upon previous agreement.
Please note: return shipment of the furniture shall only be possible if adequate, reusable packaging material has been provided (stable, wooden transport box that can be closed with common screws and sent via forwarder).
If the furniture cannot be returned by mail or forwarder, it will be stored at Messe Frankfurt until 22 January 2010 at the latest. If the aforementioned pick-up dates are not met, we shall dispose of the models in an environmentally-friendly manner. Appointments for pick-up of the furniture will be given via e-mail on short notice.
