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Milan 2012

Posted: abril 26th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

Milan design week is like a big river delta. Streams, small waterways, big water arms, all moving, converging, diverging,  flowing.

For the second time around, we visited Milan for the design week. We met designers, old friends, clients, manufacturers, people in the elevator, people on the bus, people in the train, on the street, everywhere a nice talk. Good coffee everywhere.

We have to mention two things: Scholten en Baijings Color One project for Mini, and Marina Abramovic exhibition.

About the later, we had the chance to visit an exhibition of works of Marina Abramovic, a leading contemporary artist. Remarkable and impressive works.

About Scholten and Baijings: a view and an approach for design that is beyond esthetics or functionality. A fresh view and a «deconstructive  yet at the same time compositional work».


IMM Cologne 2012

Posted: enero 24th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »
Arre stand IMM 2012

At the Pure Village!

We had a great week at Cologne, where Arré was present for the second time. This time in a professional setting at hall 3.2 in the Pure Village programme. Last year Arré was in the background, supporting Mediodesign at the D3 professionals programme, this time a step forward as a brand.

We met lots of interesting people, and we had a great team: Wibo Vermeulen from Amsterdam, Yoraco González from Berlin, Adriana Juncú assisting us with the visitors, and myself.

Great show and great products. We got compliments from trade visitors about the L-shelf designed by Juan Pablo Quintero/Mediodesign, which some people already recognised from last year, and about Insekt desk and Ecke Flow table. One of our major highlights, Metro Chairs designed by Azul Cadenas, never made it to the show… one of the minor things that happened. But we got good response to Insekt Desk, people love it. L-shelf still has to break some kind of resistance of the public, but when people see its simplicity and its genius they are crazy about it. Ecke flow had a very good international debut. German and France clients were quite enthousiast about the work of Michiel van Malestein from Rotterdam.

We are very much in the follow-up now, contacting our leads, and preparing shipment of the orders we took. We had a nice booth and a clear message: here is Arré, designed in Rotterdam, designed in Barcelona, designed in Miami, designed in Berlin.

The general public was really enthousiast about the L-shelf. During the last weekend of the fair, lot of visitors wanted to know where to buy it. How can we make this information clear to all the interested retailers?? We’ll solve that too.

We got some critical remarks from the blogs… surprisingly! 23sqstil was very dissappointed about Arré’s stand. She had followed the company, the work of Yoraco in Berlin, the L-shelf, the new products, etc. She expected more from our show. Well, a critique we take seriously, of course. But for us a kind of recognition that make us smile: we have followers!

We have clients. Clients we meet, we meet again, we retake our conversations, we discuss the next trends, the next steps. We are engaged in new proposals, new businesses. We chatted with the press, we explained our work as a new kind og agency to young professionals at the D3… and surprise, some want to be the next one at Arré.

A nice show, a great place to meet the world, to show our work. We are still working hard, demanding the best quality in what we do. Follow up time now!!!


Designed in Barcelona | Designed in Rotterdam | Designed in Berlin

Posted: enero 10th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Arré is ready to show the latest collection of designs and products at IMM Cologne. The show is focused on the international location of our designers and brands, their workplace, their inspiration. Each of them, Juan Pablo Quintero, Kellie Smits, Michiel van Malestein, Azul Cadenas, Yoraco González, are inspired by their cities, interacting with the creative partners, culture, architecture, businesses, friends and life in those places.

We like to think that, though it might be irrelevant for some, location plays a part in the creative process. It is the promise of Arré as well, to support those ideas and try to carry the stories and developments that brought them up in the first place. Designed in Barcelona, designed in Berlin, designed in Miami, yes.

But what does Arré? Organises in Rotterdam? Management? carries a Collection? Perhaps a new business model, a new mode for design, our way to contemporary furniture, a different approach. We are, most definitely, working on that.

We believe that we are preparing to become a furniture and contract label. But we are thinking and pondering, looking around and outside, thinking that perhaps there is room for a more collaborative approach, for effective production, for creating good value with these wonderful resources. We have started engaging conversations with our designers, clients, friends, suppliers, producers, design enthousiasts. In Chicago, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Berlin, Vienna, New York City, Kortrijk. Not only because we like to travel (we do!) but also because this journey of Arré has brought us there. We’ll get there.


IMM Cologne 2012, already a good start!

Posted: diciembre 3rd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

We are preparing a good and solid show for january 2012, when we will be back at Cologne for the international furniture fair. Among the things that we have done was to send Mediodesign’s product L-shelf system to competition for the Interior Innovation Award, an award organised by the German Design Council.

Did we really get surprised this week when we heard that L-shelf was among the winners? Well, yes, a little bit. But we were confident that Juan Pablo Quintero’s brainchild had everything to get through to the final rounds. So far, L-shelf, launched by Arré and designed by Mediodesign, has won its first award. It its still competing for the «best of the best 2012» award, due for final award ceremony on january 16th 2012.

Of course, this will give Arré the opportunity to show L-shelf twice at IMM Cologne, at our own booth and at the innovation boulevard. Already a good start!


Thank you visitors at Qubique Berlin!

Posted: noviembre 12th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

To all our visitors and followers:

Thank you for your visit at our stand at Qubique. We appreciate your interest, time and comments during the fair. It was nice to meet you in Berlin!

Please check our website for the latest information on QUINTo outdoor collection. We will certainly take your comments into account for the final product, due in 2012.

Meanwhile, we have a limited serie of QUINTo Chaise Longe, Chaise and terrace bed available for delivery. Please contact us for prices and delivery conditions.

In january 2012 we will be present at IMM Cologne, so we’ll contact you with an invitation and further info. Hope to see you in Köln!

On behalf of Yoraco, Mr. Wood, and Arré’s team

Thank you.


QUINTo at Qubique

Posted: noviembre 2nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »
QUINTo chair at Qubique Berlin 2011

A chair to relax

During Qubique, we could talk about the pieces making part of the QUINTo collection, about the geometry, about the qualities and features of Black palm tree wood, about its difficulties, about design, about collaboration, about Mr. Wood, about Arré, about Yoraco. We could talk to anyone asking, to anyone who approached us with a remark or a question, to curious people of Berlin, to fellow exhibitors.

We could talk. We talked. But the QUINTo chair, reclining chair and bed, they told the story in a different way. They let people sit on them, they were to see, they were there to seat.

This picture makes part of the photo gallery of Qubique. This is one of the impressions of the third day. It is great to see that this collection made it to the gallery, made it to the media, a little bit. Now is the time to make it to the visitors and professionals that took a seat, that took a look and those who asked…


Hello Berlin!

Posted: octubre 24th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

In a few hours we’ll be part of the great show of Qubique. A new sort of trade fair starting wednesday october 26th for the first time ever in Berlin. With a spectacular venue–decomissioned Tempelhof airport– it is going to be great.

Of course, everyone is working overtime, we are late, there are problems during the last day, the last hour, the last minute. But we are going to be present with the amazing work of Yoraco González. It is going to be his show at his german hometown.

So, pretty soon, more news about it.


Blickfang Vienna

Posted: octubre 17th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Last weekend Mediodesign presented its collection at Blickfang Vienna, on a special invitation by curator Andrés Fredes.

We had a lot of feedback from Blickfang visitors, other exhibitors and the curator team. Most important, Vienna’s public was enthousiast about Mediodesign’s products.

Juan Pablo Quintero, Adriana Juncu and myself were present at the MAK Museum, a great venue by the way.

We could close some sales with private clients, and we were able to initiate conversations with retailers and distributors in Austria and Germany. We met some good designers we already met during IMM Cologne! we are now part of that world too…

We are expecting some follow-up from this, as we made contact with many private clients whom meant to contact us in the next weeks. Well, don’t forget to do it! We’ll hold the special prices of Blickfang Vienna for a limited time!


Qubique!

Posted: octubre 7th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

We are coming to Qubique Berlin in a couple of weeks!

From October 26th until the 29th, we will be at Tempelhof.

Yoraco González will present his work for outdoor furniture. A great collection of pieces made of remnant wood (another word for waste wood!) of the kind use for flooring. He has team up with Mr. Wood, a leading italian company in wood flooring, to study, classify, design, produce, test, and give shape to these pieces.

It has been an intense project, between Rotterdam, Berlin and Florence, with materials coming from Perú. We are quite excited about the show.

We will be present at the Ventura Berlin zone, located at the entrance of Qubique. Ventura Berlin, organised by the same people of Ventura Lambrate in Milan, is a curated exhibition full of innovative design, products and projects. The ideal place for Yoraco’s work!

Additionally, we will invite visitors to follow the Yoraco’s route in Berlin, to see restaurants, boutiques, galleries and many more interiors which have been designed by Yoraco.

See you there!


Blue Chains launch at fab.com

Posted: septiembre 17th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: news | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

BlueChains Metro ChairWe are very excited that BlueChains is having a sale at fab.com tomorrow. We expect and wish the best.

Azul Cadenas in Miami is ready to ship the nice chairs and tables he designed in the last couple of years. Is going to be great! We have been working together for the last weeks to make it happen, and fab.com has been very much involved.

This will be our second sale at fab.com, after the introduction of Mediodesign last August. It looks nice, is good business and clients are smart. A good reason to keep our motto of «supporting excellent design», because that’s what people want.

For all those who want more info about BlueChains product, we have a catalog at the download section of arre-design.nl and you can check directly at bluechains.com