“AMES TVEIR” NOMINATED FOR THE GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2011

What distinguishes the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany from other competitions is that it offers the business community a platform for communicating the long-term success of designs and brands. Its unique feature is that participation in this competition is possible only for design items that have already won an award elsewhere. This ensures that only those industrial products and such achievements in the field of communication design will be honoured as have already proved their design excellence in the market place.

AMES TVEIR´S NEW WOODEN BASE

Ames is glad to introduce the new wooden base for “Tveir” chair.

The new Tveir´s wooden base consists of 19-times glued beech laminated wood. The individual veneer layers come from local sustainably managed forests of the north Rhine Westphalia, Hessen and Lower Saxony.

Beech wood veneers are able to withstand high tensile loads. The high mechanical properties of the beech permit economical profiles with attractive Design and high solidity at the same time. The individual layers are injected in special presses and pressed up to 350 t. The individual layers are glued with urea resin glue according to DIN 68705. The gluing process is with low-formaldehyde content and corresponds to the emission class E 1. The treatment of the cross-beams is made by modern 5-axis CNC machine centers. The lacquer finish takes place with environmentally friendly hydraulic lacquer (water lacquer) systems.

The wooden frame gives “tveir” a completely new, charming look which makes this chair particularly suitable also for domestic purposes.

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR, NEW YORK

15th – 18th Mai 2010, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, Hall 1, row no. 17 A project of the GERMAN DESIGN COUNCIL

With over 30,000 visitors from the sectors of interior design and furnishing, architecture and retail, ICFF is one of the most important interior design fairs world-wide and it has become the most important business platform for European design in the United States. Along with the fair itself, showrooms, galleries and museums will provide a significant fringe programme for the growing number of international visitors.

FUORISALONE MILANO 2010!

Ames products were in two different locations to see:

14th – 19th of April 2010 in TEMPORARY MUSEUM FOR NEW DESIGN, SUPERSTUDIO PIÚ, via Tortona 27, 20114 Milano, Stand 35b in the Selected Objects area. www.superstudiogroup.com

14th – 19th of April 2010 in Spazio Romeo Gigli, via Angelo Fumagalli 6, 20143 Milano, Spazio A. A project of the GERMAN DESIGN COUNCIL.

With approximately 300.000 visitors the furniture fair in Milan, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, is the largest furniture fair worldwide. Within the accompanying off-site event Fuori Salone an exceptional design festival is taking place in Milan´s city centre. The showcase Design Deutschland 2010 will be presented in the city district Zona Tortona, which is well-known for its outstanding exhibitions as it gives up-and-coming young designers as well as international companies and renowned design. For further information please see www.fuorisalone.it and www.zonatortona.net

First Impressions

Ames exhibits at SUPERSTUDIO PIÚ – TEMPORARY MUSEUM FOR NEW DESIGN in Milan.

From 14th-19th April 2010, during the design week and the international furniture fair in Milan, we will be exhibiting our products in SUPERSTUDIO PIÚ, an exclusive location in the renowned “Zona Tortona” . Ames stand will be located in the “selected object” area where only the best quality furniture can be exhibited like masterpieces in a museum after a strict selection.

Superstudio Più is a modern, poly-functional and versatile multi-location, a huge space available to the city and to important international events – created to meet the needs of the most vital operators and creative people working in the overlapping fields of fashion, art, design, communication, culture and entertainment. Wide, flexible, obscured or day-light spaces, which can be divided or combined, with heating and air-conditioning, perfectly suitable for great events, exhibitions, conventions, fairs, fashion shows, performances, dances, covering a total area of 8.000 square meters.

Ames “einn table” and “tveir” chair selected from the GERMAN DESIGN COUNCIL to take part in both international furniture fair SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL MOBILE in Milan and INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORAR FURNITURE FAIR in New York 2010.

Within the exhibition series Design Deutschland the German Design Council presents a newly-designed showcase which will be shown in Milan during the international furniture fair and at the ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York. The exhibition showcases an accurate selection of products designed by up-and-coming young designers as well as by renowned designers and companies from Germany. It allows international visitors an insight into current top performances of German design. The exhibition is curated by the German Design Council. It has been designed by Leise Design and Surface Gesellschaft für Gestaltung.

AMES TVEIR HAS A NEW “SKIN”

At this year´s IMM COLOGNE we presented for the first time Tveir with a new “skin”: a fine leather cover affixed on the inner side of the shell that follows perfectly the curves of the structure and leaves yet the wood veneer clearly visible on the external side. Tveir can be fully or partially covered in different colours and in different ways: a leather cover for both the 3D shell and the backrest, a partial cover for the seat and the back or just for the seat or just for the backrest. The seat can also be upholstered on request. Tveir is a chair that can be created and restyled according to your taste. Personalize your chair, create your own style!

einn table

Ames introduced at IMM COLOGNE 2010 and at FUORISALONE MILANO 2010 also the new „einn table“, available in two size variations - as a standing table and a cafeteria table. The design was inspired by a wooden cable roll converted into a table on which the designer gladly ate chocolate cake as a little girl. The styling deliberately leaves the chair´s lines and is understood to be an independent, modern object for the indoor and outdoor area. The four-part tables are available in various wooden décors.

Ames tveir wins the IF Product Design Award 2010

We are very proud to announce that our chair ames tveir won the prestigious iF product design Award 2010 in the category “interior design / public design.”

The iF product design award covers all areas of product design. It serves as a platform for design-relevant innovations, thus recognizing today's globally networked world and its related dynamics.

Since 1953, the iF product design award has been recognized as a label for good design.

A continuous dialogue with manufacturers and designers forms the basis for furthering its reputation as a trend indicator for outstanding achievements in design and in design innovation. The awards ceremony for the iF gold awards, which honors the 50 best competition entries, takes place annually on the opening day of CeBIT. The iF product design award yearbook documents all award winners of each competition and provides an exciting insight into the world of successful design. Furthermore, as a reference book, it reflects current trends in outstanding design. All manufacturers and designers of mass-produced products that have not been on the market for more than three years or that have entered production in the awards year, are invited to participate in the competition.

All manufacturers and designers of mass-produced products that have not been on the market for more than three years or that have entered production in the awards year, are invited to participate in the competition.

The iF product design award exhibition is open to the public each year from March through to September at the Hanover exhibition center.

Known the world over as a "seal of outstanding design", the iF product design award honors outstanding achievements in design and offers an important platform to have your product's design quality professionally validated by an international jury of experts. Manufacturers and designers of mass produced products that have not been on the market for longer than three years or that have entered production in the awards year are eligible to compete for an iF product design award 2010.