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Furnishing Idea is the portal dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, designed to bring together different professionals such as architects, designers, carpenters, furniture makers and manufacturers active in the furniture market who represent the reference point in terms of innovation and quality of the product offered. On the other hand, the portal aims to provide a valid information service focused on products, projects, events and fairs and everything that revolves around the world of components, semi-finished products and accessories for the furniture industry.

 

The portal is divided into different sections where you can explore the different products according to different categories, get in touch with manufacturers, download catalogues to keep up with industry trends and watch videos of interviews with the best professionals and manufacturers.

 

In the articles section you can find all the information about the most innovative product technologies, such as furniture materials, furniture accessories and systems, furniture machinery, furniture hardware, manufactured by manufacturers with a solid experience in the field. In the companies section there is an overview of the manufacturers registered on our portal, divided by product category, where you can contact us for any request. Our portal also has a special catalogues section to allow professionals and operators in the sector to view in a practical way all the catalogues relating to the various products (furniture hardware, upholstery materials, furniture paints, etc.). In addition, to allow easy consultation of the products, our portal has reserved a product section, organized by categories, where you can find out about the technical characteristics, materials and functionality of each product. The video section, on the other hand, presents numerous video interviews given by professionals and manufacturers that report news, insights and informative content on the best technologies in the sector.

 

In addition, to keep you constantly informed you can also consult our Journal section which contains all the Furnishing Idea magazines dedicated to the furniture and furnishing industry, such as the edition dedicated to Sicam or Interzum, two of the most important trade fairs in the sector. The magazines can be consulted from the portal or easily downloadable in pdf format.

 

Thanks to the trust placed in us by many manufacturers, our portal is now recognized both nationally and internationally. In fact, there are already many internationally recognized and established companies in the sector, including the AIPEF group (Italian Flexible Expanded Polyurethanes Companies) which promotes scientific information on the use of flexible polyurethane foam in the sectors in which it is used.

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Next Design Innovation: a contest for young designers

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Young designers, under 35 years old, they have the possibility to introduce their project ideas, fruit of creativeness and innovative ability, participating in the contest Next Design Innovation promoted by Regione Lombardia in collaboration with the Design Department of the Polytechnic in Milan and managed by Polifactory. Objective of the contest is the pre-incubation of young talents able to plan and to materialize innovative product-service systems, offering them the concrete opportunity to realize a complete path of ideation-development- prototyping -exhibition, “from the idea to the market.“ Next Design Innovation encourages the collaboration peer-to-peer and the union among talents, the propensity to the multidisciplinary, the real experimentation of the manufacture processes of the artifacts, the search of project solutions “unexpected“ namely not headed by breafs predetermined by the companies. Next Design Innovation works in this way: • Until 31st December 2015 it is possible to apply for the Open Call for Ideas and Talents.

• The designers, planners and innovators (Under 35), single or in group, they can apply for a project idea regarding an innovative product-service system;

• 15 proposals of project ideas among the reached ones they will be selected on the base of the criterions of evaluation inserted in the same Open Call;

• The selected individual-groups will be pre-incubated and they can materialize their own ideas inside the Polifactory, reaching to realize the final prototypes.

• The prototypes will be introduced in the Milan Design Week 2016 inside a devoted exhibition. The themes of the selected projects can concern one or more productive sectors, one or more market categories, one or more project  'challenges'. The projects have to explore the relationship between design and emergent technologies: from the systems of applied or incorporated sensors in the systems products or interfaces of control, up to the exploration of technologies for the digital manufacture combined with handicraft techniques or industrial process. Every project idea must be original and unpublished, realizable firsthand from the planner-group with the technical-scientific support of Polifactory, thought in operation of a possible productive-distributive implementation.

AIPEF: Aziende Italiane Poliuretani Espansi Flessibili.

AIPEF: Aziende Italiane Poliuretani Espansi Flessibili.

National association of manufacturers of flexible polyurethane foam, raw materials and additives. Gruppo Federazione Gomma Plastica.
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