Ambiente Frankfurt 2024: The top highlights from the annual furniture and design fair

There’s inspiration everywhere you look. And this maxim is best exemplified at the leading global art and design fairs that connoisseurs await every year. From the grounds of Ambiente Frankfurt 2024, when the German city by the River Main was abuzz with dialogues on all things design and decoration, we bring you a delightful glance into the annual consumer goods fair hosted by Messe Frankfurt that runs the gamut of the finest finds in furniture, furnishings and decor accents.

New Talent

NAME PLACE ANIMAL THING

Bringing a slice of Indian craftsmanship to Germany, Priyam Doshi of Name Place Animal Thing, invited and hosted by Messe Frankfurt to Ambiente 2024, lays out a potpourri of lights that stand as artful statements day through night, such as the Quarry collection of lamps draped with thin stone sheets from Indian quarries, awarded at EDIDA India 2023. Alongside, mushroom lamps cloaked in hand-stitched fabric and plug-n-play lamp made of clay in collaboration with Pravaha, become luminous vanguards of the evolving, new-age crafts.
Website: nameplaceanimalthing.com 

ATSUSHI SHINDO 

A self-standing lamp shade dressed as a kimono? With gentle curves and a sturdy presence, the lighting inspired by Haori, the traditional Japanese Kimono, is crafted with perforated aluminium and in options like Kobe leather and upcycled Nunous fabric — imagined by Tokyo-based Atsushi Shindo, also discerned as the Young Japanese Design Talent for ELLE DECO International Design Awards (EDIDA) Japan 2023.
Website: atsushishindo.com

LUMERE 

Mimicking the familiar frame of elegant, cylindrical glass bottles, the S’ENZA lamp imagined by Luca Ingenito quietly stands out with an intensely luminous appearance, contoured with aluminium on its edges and a crown-esque disc on the top, reminiscent of the bottle’s lid.
Website: lumere.it

MASSIMO LUNARDON

A humorous reinterpretation of ocean-esque influences amassed from underwater, a curious and colourful collection of hand-blown glass decanters, carafes, bowls and trays unfurl ornamented with fish figurines.
Website: massimolunardon.it

STOFF NAGEL 

After being decades out of production, the STOFF Nagel floor stand from the 1960s returns with its sculptural demeanour. With a gleaming polished frame made of zinc alloy, the poised stand can be adjusted with as many candle holders and effortlessly decorate the living spaces with its classic visual identity.
Website: stoffnagel.com

VISTA ALEGRE

A poetry of flora, fauna and colours, Vista Alegre’s tableware centres itself with motifs that meld culture and art. The brand also present at Made in Portugal Naturally’s alcove at Ambiente, The Meaning Collection’s pieces interweave a story of a secret garden crafted with porcelain, crystal and earthenware as its material moodboard.
Website: vistaalegre.com

RECOZY 

Restating the understated allure of organic palettes, the curvaceous Loom lounge chair teamed with elliptical-cavity Loom side table is created from recycled food packaging waste blended with recycled wood fibres.
Website: recozy.de/en

REFLECTIONS COPENHAGEN

Shaping the rousing routine of dressing up and getting ready, an enchanted universe of new forms and hues make The Rose Prelude collection that time travels to the flamboyant boudoirs of the 70s. It brings along an inspired assortment of trinkets, paraphernalia and yes, minimally glamorous mirrors!
Website: reflections-copenhagen.com

OLIVELAB

Myriad threads of nimble, minimal D.02 Pendant lights suspend from the heights above. Composed lyrically with high-quality LEDs, the pendant light made in Italy and envisioned by Giulia Liverani is completely customisable, from its length of cable and the shape of the lamp to its positioning across rooms and spaces.
Website: olivelab.it

ICHENDORF MILANO 

Marine Garden, the collection name that portrays visuals of sea creatures and stunning underwater hues, takes over each delicate piece designed by Alessandra Baldereschi for Ichendorf Milano, hand-made and flame-worked with graphic motifs of fish recurring throughout.
Website: ichendorfmilano.com/en

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