IMM Cologne 2017: designers cultivate calm with their latest launches

Classicon’s booth featured Eileen Gray’s ’Centimetre Rug’ from 1926, presented among other reissues from the designer

Also at the fair, Cassina kickstarted the celebrations for its 90th anniversary, showing new seating that included a re-edition of Mario Bellini’s ’932’ armchair from the 1960s (left) and the sublimely-coloured ’ZH-One’ by the late Zaha Hadid (right)

Austrian furniture company Wittman worked with Spanish designer Jaime Hayon on a collection titled ’Wittman Hayon Workshop’ that merges the designer’s humorous shapes with the brand’s savoir faire

Elsewhere in Cologne, the Museum of Applied Arts paid tribute to German designer Stefan Diez with a solo exhibition

Titled ’Full House’, the show explores Diez’s experiments with technology and innovative manufacturing methods. The pieces on show included his ’New Order’ shelves for Hay, which were used as display elements throughout the exhibition

The exhibition, open until 11 June, takes over the museum’s three floors, and includes furniture, accessories, lighting and smaller objects

Meanwhile, design studio Kaschkasch celebrated its fifth anniversary with a retrospective

The exhibition included sketches and early prototypes of its products, including the ’Cap’ table lamp (pictured), which the firm designed for Normann Copenhagen in 2012

Back at IMM, B&B Italia showed new outdoor pieces including the ’Ginestra’ seating by Antonio Citterio

German company Cor’s booth

French rug maker CC Tapis showed new collaborations, including Garth Roberts’ ’After Party’ collection, right. Roberts’ abstract design (available on a black or cream background) was inspired by a confetti-strewn floor following a party

Also on show at CC Tapis were these two collections: the Venice-inspired ’Giudecca’ by Zanellato Bortotto (left) and the ’Zo’ by Zaven (right), referencing traditional African masks

Giorgetti took to the fair to unveil its debut outdoors collection, designed by Chi Wing Lo and Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, one of the company’s most ambitious projects which combines new designs with the works of its in-house artisans

Presented by German storage brand Piure, the ’Mesh’ shelving system is imagined for the workspace and features stained glass and perforated metal in a new colour palette

Nya Nordiska also showed new collections, developed under Sebastian Herkner’s creative direction and inspired by the world’s most exciting cities. These included the ’Soho’ line...

...and the ’Piccadilly’ collection

The ’Christie’ collection by Italian lighting company Nahoor

Jan Kath’s new rug experiments featured shapes that defy traditional rectangular designs. Its ’Dresses’ collection (shown here in its Bochum showroom) was inspired by the Far East and made by hand in Nepal

Also by Herkner were new pieces for Ames Sala. Titled ’Caribe’, the collection was inspired by South American aesthetics and handmade in Colombia