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Design Deustchland's bright orange booth at ICFF was a big improvement on last year's. Instead of being arranged by category and hung on the wall, the objects were spread out in mini spaces that felt like small rooms, with lamps on tables, chairs on desks, and the odd car here and there.

The show encompassed both established companies and young designers. These weren't differentiated in layout, but the objects in prototype stage were marked with a tag that said "Looking for a Producer." Below, a few of our favorites from that category (like Slot, the dining table complete with Winter Wonderland centerpiece, by Matthias Ries Design Office and Studio Hausen's UDO Chair, a snap-together aluminum lawn chair).

UDO by Studio Hausen
Jörg Höltje (Studio Hausen) presents the UDO, an into four elements dismountable tube-chair. No additional procedures like welding, sanding or polishing are needed, as well as expensive tooling costs. All four elements can be customized coloured within a certain colour range and connected with blind riveting and screws. The dismounted UDO can be packed cost efficiently in a flat-pack and can be assembled by the customer himself.

Slot by Matthias Ries Design Office
Besides the classical linoleum bord Slot convinces due to its unreckoned leg construction. Their design provides structural strength in vertical, horizontal and diagonal directions, which additionally helps to strut the table. Due to additional corner caps the table can be easily color customized. For the Design Germany exhibition a special one-off with a little model scenery has been created. It plays with peoples perceptions and assumptiuons.

Henry Grid Rack by Kilian Schindler
The design of the hallstand is not unlike the trelliswork used for training garden plants, but in this case it is the tools, items of clothing and accessories that clutter up this powder-coated steel frame. The culmination of this assembly is a set of boxes made from different materials. Their purpose is to accommodate even the smallest of objects.

Bell Light by Sebastian Herkner
It's a luminaire inspired by spotlights and reflectors with changeable lampshades. This are made of copper or textile to influence the atmosphere, temperature and colour of light.

Miss Maple by Elisa Strozyk
The pendant lamp "Miss Maple" is showing the use of a familiar material in an unconventional way. We usually experience wood as a plain surface, but here it is broken down into a grid of triangles. This makes a flexible lampshade which can be transformed manually in three-dimensional ways. While the lamp generates warm light at night the surface outside becomes more evident with daylight and turns the lamp into sculptural object.