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imm Spring Edition Speaker´s Corner

Architonic Live Talks

Welcome to Speakers' Corner@The Circle - the place for inspiring dialogues with the most brilliant minds in architecture and design. Here, Architonic editor-in-chief Simon Keane-Cowell, leads fascinating conversations with renowned architects, interior designers and product designers.

Immerse yourself in topics such as materiality, sustainability and technology and let yourself be carried away by thepersonal anecdotes of the industry stars. Our Live Talks offer you the unique opportunity to expand your expertise, learn from the best in the design and architecture scene and be inspired.

The Architonic Live Talks will take place on the first and second days of the fair at 1.p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. respectively in the Speakers' Corner@The Circle in the Pure Galleries in Hall 11.2. Learn first-hand how these outstanding personalities shape the world of architecture and design and be inspired by their creativity and expertise!

In addition to the Speakers' Corner, The Circle also offers a bar and lounge area that provides the ideal setting for exchanging views on current developments in the industry with new and well-known business contacts throughout the fair.

Sunday, 04. June 2023

 
1 . p.m. - Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider / Kaschkasch

1 . p.m. - Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider / Kaschkasch

Design studio KASCHKASCH was founded in 2011 by Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider, who work in furniture, lighting design and art direction for a raft of high-end clients, both in Germany and internationally.

2. p.m. - Werner Aissliner / Studio Aissliner

2. p.m. - Werner Aissliner / Studio Aissliner

Werner Aisslinger is the founder of Berlin- and Singapore-based Studio Aisslinger, whose spatial designs combine storytelling, narrative architecture and collage principles. Increasingly, 'experience architecture' and 'instagramable spaces' have become conceptual centrepieces to its design projects.

Portrait Sebastian Herkner

3 p.m. - Sebastian Herkner / Studio Sebastian Herkner

Founding his own studio in Offenbach, Germany, in 2006, where he previously studied product design at the design school, Sebastian has gone on to create a raft of memorable designs for the likes of Ames, &Tradition, Classicon, Pedrali and Cappellini. Among the plaudits he’s received is the EDIDA award for Best Designer of the Year.

Monday, 05. June 2023

 
1. p.m. - Maxime d'Angeac / Maxime d'Angeac

1. p.m. - Maxime d'Angeac / Maxime d'Angeac

Maxime d'Angeac is an interior and architecture design studio that conceives exceptional spaces worldwide. Using the codes of the classic as much as contemporary style, the eponymous founder puts his passion as an architect at the service of the most demanding private homes – and always deploying light to sublimate volume.

2. p.m. - Patrick Reymond / atelier oï

2. p.m. - Patrick Reymond / atelier oï

Swiss-based Atelier Öi – founded by Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond, is a transdisciplinary office that has spent over three decades experimenting, challenging the received boundaries of material, form and typology.

3. p.m. - Dara Huang / Design Haus Liberty

3. p.m. - Dara Huang / Design Haus Liberty

American-born, London-based architect Dara Huang – who has worked at a number of prestigious architecture firms including Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects – is the founder of award-winning architecture and interior-design firm Design Haus Liberty, which specialises in high-end spaces that emphasise the innovative and the bespoke.