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Hardware for furniture, upholstery, kitchen, coatings and furnishing systems.

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.

The 13th edition of the Cosentino Design Challenge is starting

Also this year Cosentino, a Spanish company leader in the production and distribution of innovative surfaces for the world of architecture and design, launches the appeal for the Cosentino Design Challenge (CDC) nominations, now in its 13th edition. The aim of the competition is promoting the talent and creativity of future professionals in the sector at international level, encouraging students from all over the world to create sustainable and innovative projects.

Themes of this edition will be, in the Architecture section, “Cosentino and the water“, while in the Design category “Cosentino and the energy“. The company offers students the absolute freedom to carry out research and create proposals using one or more innovative Cosentino products: Silestone® quartz surfaces, Dekton® ultra-compact surfaces and the natural granite line with the exclusive anti- Sensa® stain.

The competition was presented at the Cosentino City Madrid in front of the company representatives, architects and designers, the specialist press and the various professors of some of the 29 schools and universities of national and international prestige who actively collaborated in this initiative. Italy was represented by the Istituto Europeo di Design Milano (IED).

Since last year, Cosentino has been collaborating with a media partner: the magazine Experimenta which, thanks to its online and offline platforms, has managed to spread the initiative well.

Students have until June 1, 2019 to send their projects through the website www.cosentinodesignchallenge.org

A jury will select the winning projects and students. For each category, the winner will receive € 1,000, to which will be added three merit awards.

During the presentation of the Cosentino Design Challenge 13, the three winners of the last edition were awarded.