Designspotters must see exhibtion and event guide 2012 during this week full of design and parties with all the mayor events wich takes place during the imm cologne, passagen and the cologne music week. Have fun and enjoy cologne & see you soon in milan or elsewehere. Did we missed anything? contact us here

Best Coffee in Cologne Schamong Coolest Jazz Bar Metronom Paeffgen - Best Koelsch Best Club starts after midnight SIXPACK Electro Sounds & Bar ZUM SCHEUEN REH Salon Schmitz Bar & Restaurant Hallmackenreuther a place for creative drinking Ouzeria greek tapas Deluxe Cocktails @ Spirits Baracuda Bar Electro Bar Arcadia  Olivia Culinaria Italia Restaurant Kunstbar Exhibtion & Bar  CAFE cafe  Momotaro Sushi  Restaurant enjoy colognes panorama Pizza Picola      

MOOOI @ Designpost A&W Designer of the Year 2012 Patricia Urquiola Audi Mentor price Benjamin Hubert Furniture of Greece @ Imm Cologne Nucleo @ Gabrielle Ammann Pure Village @ imm Cologne MAKK Architekturmöbel Messe der Meister von Morgen Passagen Designersfair Design Parcours Ehrenfeld AIT ArchitekturSalon Köln Ehrenfeld Architonic Disco Tine Krumhorn D3 @ Imm Cologne Das Haus Interiors on Stage Interior Innovation Award Boulevard of Innovations Boffi Magazin Shop Möbelmeile Living Interiors Designpost Pure

Cologne Design Night the opening of the imm cologne will be celebrated with the Cologne Design Night at the Alter Wartesaal. In cooperation with the Design Post, H.O.M.E. Magazin, the Spichern Höfen and imm cologne about 1.200 guests are invited to join the splendid prelude of the imm cologne week.

Passagen Drinks here OCCHIO Gabrielle Ammann MAKK DQE Halle Designers Fair Raum 5 by ArtyFarty

Abitare Talks at MAKK, Cologne
Abitare meets Patricia Urquiola, Stefan Diez and Marco Romanelli.
January 17th, 6,30 pm. during imm cologne 2012
Patricia Urquiola, Stefan Diez and Marco Romanelli will have an Abitare’s talk. The debate will explore the two main possibilities open to designers – the Italian way, a continuation of design history and the achievements of the great design masters, according to which the road to furniture design is through architecture, and the German way according to which furniture design is a specific offshoot of product design. Personal experience, training, the organizational structuring of the key manufacturers and a variety of historical considerations will be taken into account as we seek to define differences between two approaches to design that seem clear enough in principle, but quickly blur when one considers the careers and achievements of our three practicing designers. One question underlies the entire discussion: is it still possible to imagine a “complete designer” like Alvar Aalto or Gio Ponti, motivated and equipped to address issues relating to the “human environment” in the broadest sense, or is the trend towards ever-greater specialization and complexity so irreversible as to admit only more inclusive forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration in design?

Passagen Drinks here ECO Kubus Object Carpet  Architonic Dicso   Tobias Grau   Hallmackenreuther

“With ‘Das Haus – Interiors on Stage’, the imm cologne is resuming the tradition of the Ideal Houses, although without adopting their rather abstract dimension,” explains Dick Spierenburg, under whose leadership Koelnmesse’s internal creative team is developing and implementing the project. Instead, the imm cologne is very deliberately seeking to connect with real conditions, thus building a bridge between the industry’s furnishing products and the progressive creative drive of the international design elite. The project focuses on the design of an artificial living situation within the trade fair – public and yet very personal living space designed by Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien.

The London-based design team will be kicking off the new format in January 2012. “Das Haus – Interiors on Stage” will show a structure created entirely in accordance with the guest designer’s ideas – architectural elements, interior and outdoor space – as well as arrangements of furniture and furnishing elements for an individually configured interior design. In the middle of the Pure Village hall, the trade fair will erect an approx. 180 m² platform to serve as an open stage for the project. “Das Haus – Interiors on Stage” is thus both a designer portrait and a visionary blueprint, an example of how it is possible to create a world of one’s own that becomes an expression of one’s own personality.

Passagen drinks here Superartitecture  ArtyFarty

Architectural tours Get to know Cologne’s architectural highlights a little better. The construction of the new Central Mosque represents the multicultural flair of Cologne’s inhabitants, manifested in exciting architecture. First and foremost, the city is characterised by its different neighbourhoods, each of which has its own identity. On a journey through four different areas of the city, you can experience fascinating, innovative building projects first-hand. It also includes the Museum Kolumba and the architectural minimalism in Cologne. The program is rounded off by the most ambitious urban development project in Cologne within recent years, the Rheinauhafen. Extra tour – Chapel to Saint Nicholas of Flüe, designed by Peter Zumthor

PASSAGEN 2012 and DQE present the 5th Design Parcours Ehrenfeld. An entire district is a stage for young design – a crossover of interior and fashion design, street art, architecture, and urban planning "from the roots up"

Passagen drinks  over all Ehrenfeld artrmx e.V.  Gronicles #3  JACK IN THE BOX  etc.

Ambient Festival -  Zivilisation Der Liebe - by E' de Cologne

Passagen Drinks here

The Chair-swapping CHAIRity from the Design Post, imm, Claudia Neumann Communication and the culture-magazine "Stadtzauber" are making it happen: For a 100€ donation to the development association of the Musuem of applied science "MAKK" you can swap you old chair into a valuably brand new designer chair. While stocks last. Chair-Swapping Saturday 21th January 2012 at 12pm at the MAKK, Museum of applied science. 21. Januar 2012 – 12 o'clock MAKK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln

Passagen Drinks here

lazy sunday @ Ostasiatsiches Museum