sahm + permantier Interior Textile Design - Germany

Since 1997 Babette Permantier and Petra Sahm are working together as a design team for interior textile developments . Their main focus are textiles with an Asian production background.
Traditional and innovative techniques such as weaving, embroidery and prints are translated to trend-orientated, contemporary collections.
Affected by natural material and traditional hand looms they started in 2001 their own interior textile brand LOTUS COLLECTION in Nepal .

www.lotuscollection.com

The hand-knotted carpets, cushions, bedcovers and table linen of this collection are all made with a traditional hand-spun nettle fiber from the Himalayas .
A wide experience of designing related to production and also marketing enriches sahm+permantier's forecasts and trend consultancy.

www.sahm-and-permantier.de

They have been invited to trend seminars in India and Germany. In 2003 they styled a pavilion at the trend presentation on Heimtextil in Frankfurt.
In collaboration with other design teams creative inspiration is evolved into exhibition, presentation and graphic design for different lifestyle products. In 2004 sahm+permantier developed also an image
campaign for Nepalese Tea.
references:

germany messe frankfurt – heimtextil

lambert gmbh

rwth aachen

bsb opb verlag
cavallo gmbh
issacana gmbh
konrad hornschuch ag
banaras collection
elvo cordima gmbh & cokg
w. wülfing gmbh & cokg
johann kretzer gmbh
expo+consulting gmbh
europa i+i, italy
serax, belgium
deltracon b.v.b.a., belgium
goeters, belgium
weber ag, swiss
baumann, swiss
keller ag, swiss
getzner, austria
fussenegger, austria
peru allpa s.a.c.
nepal formation carpets
gtz
indien synergy lifestyles,
riviera textiles
taurus exports
panoverseas
sarita handa
orchids
vardhman creations
export promotion council for handicrafts
marketing & design elements
craftex
maspar

Alexa Lixfeld - Germany

PRODUCE CULTURE," SAYS ALEXA LIXFELD.`CROSS-CULTURE`WOULD BE BETTER. WHETHER IT`S A PROJECT IN WHICH SHE TRIES TO USE CONCRETE AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CERAMICS IN HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS, A PERFUME, FOOD-DESIGN, AN EAT-ART PERFORMANCE IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANTS LADLE SOUP FROM A PLATE WITH A 1,4 METER DIAMETER, OR A SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION SHE SET UP IN SRI LANKA, TO HELP CHILDREN AND RUAL WOMEN - SHE OFTEN SEEMS TO GO FOR A CHALLENGE THAT OTHERS THINK IMPOSSIBLE. IN CREACETE™ SHE COMBINED HER PIONEERING EXPERIMENTS WITH CONCRETE IN THE FIELD OF TABLEWARE WITH THE ULTIMATE IN FINISHING, THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE URUSHI LACQUERING TECHNIQUE FROM WAJIMA, WHILE LEAVING THE CONTRAST OPEN AND VISIBLE. AFTER A TEN-YEAR CAREER AS A MODEL, ALEXA LIXFELD STUDIED AT KÖLN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS PFORZHEIM AND DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS. SHE WORKS IN HAMBURG SINCE 2006, RUNNING HER OWN STUDIO.MAX BORKA


Alexa Lixfeld Design GmbH,
http://www.alexalixfeld.com/

Patty Johnson - Canada

Patty her work. Her consultancy and design work represent diverse international interests and include clients Johnson is a Canadian designer who has been cited for synthesizing craft and mass production in such as Moroso, Artecnica, Design Within Reach, Sephora, Keilhauer, Nienkamper, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Trade Facilitation Office of Canada, and, the United States Agency for International Development.


Her work has won many awards and has been included in ID Magazine’s Annual Design Review Awards, the International Design Yearbook, Newsweek’s ‘Design Dozen 2006’ and, Wallpaper’s Best of 2009. Her “North South Project” was awarded an ICFF Editors Award at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in May 2006.

With the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Designworks Centre, she received a Skoll Foundation research grant to develop a transferable business model that harnesses the skills of artisan producers and creates new ways for regional groups to act as single powerful exporters to international markets.
Currently Johnson is working on projects in the Caribbean, in Guyana, South America and on the West Coast of Canada with First Nations Communities. Her new collection for Mabeo Furniture won the Editor’s Award for Craftsmanship at the 2008 International Contemporary Furniture and she launched a new collection of furniture and products – Love, Freedom, Flow: New Caribbean Design – at the ICFF 2010.
Johnson has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and India. She holds an MA Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, United Kingdom.

http://www.pattyjohnson.ca/

Aboubakar Fofana - France

Calligrapher, artist and textile designer. Aboubakar Fofana develops exclusive products and textiles.His collections are exhibited in secialized galleries.


Inspired to preserve his cultural heritage and the health of the planet, he creates sublime, limited edition designs on organic fabrics for interior décor and fashion...From the outset, he made the choice of exceptional natural materials, which can accommodate only vegetable dyes and minerals, traditional textile techniques applied to contemporary creations, refined finishes and stitching exclusively handmade, nothing ' is left to chance. Each material provides a unique feeling of comfort and well-being

http://www.aboubakar-fofana.com/
 

Fredéric Alcantara - France

Frederic Alcanatara is consultat and designer for Aid to Artisans in U.S., U.K. and for UNESCO.Working with Artisans around the world for at least a lifetime, today he resides in Morocco, surrounded and inspired by unending streams of rich handcraft traditions.