Contract Textile International

Heimtextil Goes More Contract

Volume 2 / May-August 2010

With Contract Creations, Heimtextil, International trade fair for home and contract textiles, offers clear orientation for the contract business in every face of textile interior design: innovations in design and function, the trends of the moment, an international product range and visionary showcases 

The contract business is continuously confronted by new challenges. For over three years, Heimtextil has offered clear orientation with respect to all facets of interior textile design at Contract Creations. Architects, room planners, interior decorators and interior designers profit from an international range of products, visionary showcases and the presentation of trends and innovations.

Since 2007, the contract business, which has already established itself at Heimtextil with a substantial number of manufacturers, has been brought together under the name Contract Creations. With Contract Creations, Heimtextil offers for the contract business clear orientation in all facets of textile interior decoration. A dedicated Internet portal “www.contact-contract.com” and the Contract Guide carry all the key information revolving around the contract business both ahead of and during the fair.

With Heimtextil Trend, the trade fair shows the latest fashions, design and architecture trends for exhibitors and visitors. With trend analyses, Heimtextil focuses especially on the design and decoration sectors, highlighting the latest trends for the textile interior design sector, using them in a creative way. The Internet site “www.heimtextil-trends.com” features information on the trends of the moment, shows the history of trends over the past 20 years and provides a competent communications platform in the form of the trend blog.
With its premium offers More Clarity, More Style, More Living and Asian Vision Heimtextil provides exclusivity, structure and orientation.

“Let’s have a look” in Hall 3.1 consists of lectures, guided tours, panel discussions, competitions and material workshops. A magnet this year was the series of lectures entitled ‘Rooms for women in hotels’. The focus of the “Contract Day” in Hall 8 was on household textiles and renowned experts spoke, inter alia, about ‘Innovative solutions for the hotel bed of the future’ and ‘Caring for flat linen as a cost factor’. Heimtextil supports young talents in the textile sector via the Young Contract Creations Awards “Upholstery” and “Wall”. The “Innovation Award” Architecture Textile Object was held for the seventh time in cooperation with AIT trade magazine. The Award went to textile products and conceptual room solutions that convinced the jury in terms of design and function.

Contract Guide and logo show the way
The Contract Guide is the directory to all suppliers of contract textiles at Heimtextil. Additionally, all relevant exhibition stands are marked with a Contract Creations logo. In 2010, entrants to the Wall competition were given the subject of ‘Havana’ as the basis for their work.

Contract Creations: impetus for the growth market

With the Contract Creations product area, Heimtextil is blazing a trail to the growth market for the hoteliers and caterers, offices, congress and conference centers, hospitals, care and rehabilitation facilities. Heimtextil offers diverse opportunities to position your company in this segment via a number of coordinated measures. Contract furnishing professionals and anyone aiming to become one, will find numerous specialist articles about the design capitals of the world, the latest hotel formats and other contract business trends.