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TemaHome Showcasee @ IMM Cologne

FLOAT BED| by TemaHome
ATOLL TV BENCH |by Délio Vicente
SLOT|by Nádia Soares

IMM Rules!
Did you ever imagine a Bedroom like this?
No way! Unbelievable!
100% Portuguese Design

1ª Edição Culturália 2010

A TemaHome esteve presente no na 1ª edição da mostra de produtos Portuguese - Culturália.
Este é um evento que tem como objectivo promover as marcas portuguesas dentro e fora de Portugal.

The Panorama family is growing up!

For the 2010 collection, one of our most iconic products, the Panorama designed by Inês Martinho, will bring a new finish and new dimensions. The inspiration behind the design was to create shelving that fit most people's needs. Rather than creating static sized shelves, each section has an assortment of shelf sizes allowing you to be creative in what is stored within. It creates a real solution to combine odd size objects to your average CD stack, not to mention the cool visual effect it brings to any wall.

Initially available in white, the New Year will bring a black version that can be easily combined with the Valley Wall System (now available in black) to create the perfect solution for your living room. Another new feature for 2010, it’s the availability of a new dimension: 60 cm wide by 168 cm high by 23 cm deep (23.6” W x 66” H x 9” D) that either stand directly in the floor or hanged in the wall like the short version. With 168 cm (66”) of height, you can make a very functional room divider by placing two units standing back to back.

It's almost time!!!!

TemaHome wins the 2009 Mobis design award

In a ceremony at the city of PORTO last Friday, the Portuguese association of furniture manufacturers awarded TemaHome with the Mobis design award. Create in 1999 the award recognizes the quality and excellence of the Portuguese furniture industry.

(In the image, the TemaHome team of internal designers. left to right: Délio Vicente, Inês Martinho, Maria João Maia, Ricardo Marçal, Nádia Soares e Flora Mendonça)

Flickr is back!

You can now browse all of TemaHome imagery at our recently published flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/temahome2009/

ABC HOME - New York

New Yorkers can now order all of the TemaHome collection at ABC HOME , a
iconic store at 19th street and Broadway. ABC HOME is the first store to have a gallery in the city that never sleeps and is known for carrying the world's best brand names in design.

Stylesight New York Online Magazine

Stylesight is a team of seasoned and accomplished industry insiders whose extensive careers traverse the fields of fashion design, trend analysis, forecasting, reporting, merchandising and apparel manufacturing. They understand the business of fashion and fashion as a business. We met them last April at the Milan show where they interview our Marketing Manager Fabio Scala. Here is the complete article:


Profile: TemaHome
TemaHome is a Portuguese interior furnishings company that strives to provide the best in contemporary design to reflect the individuality of their customers. TemaHome was established in 1981, at a time when Norwegians and Portuguese united to form the "Portuguese Norema", which united Scandinavian technology with Iberian design. Their slogan "Living Your Dreams" expresses their mission to provide modern designs for a contemporary lifestyle. TemaHome offers three distinct lines including: Essence – which features modern designs for everyday solutions, Style – focusing on detail-oriented design, and Trends – their most exclusive line. Led by CEO Stephan Morais, TemaHome's team of talented designers aims to deliver products to customers who enjoy even the smallest details in life and who are not afraid to create interior spaces that reflect their personality.

(Fabio Scala, TemaHome's Marketing Manager)

Q. When and how was TemaHome established?
A. The company was established in 1981 as a joint venture between Portuguese and Norwegian investors. Initially, the idea was to combine Scandinavian technology with fine Portuguese craftsmanship. Over the course of the years, the company has supplied many of the world's largest retailers such as IKEA, which resulted in a constant increase in manufacturing technology. The company!s ownership changed several times over the course of its history and
included some of the most respected investment companies in Europe. In 2006, with the arrival of our current CEO, Mr. Stephan Morais, the ownership became 100% Portuguese. The new CEO brought a strategy focused on design excellency and brand recognition. The brand name TemaHome was born and the company began to work with the top names in Portuguese design while also developing its own team of internal designers that encompasses the best
young talents in the country.


Q. How would you define the design aesthetic of TemaHome?
A. In two words, minimalist design. While we have a Scandinavian heritage due to the company!s foundation, our creations present a clear line that can both dictate the style of a room or blend in just as well with an urban-chic setting. Our designers are very passionate about their creations and are obsessed with the idea of delivering products that will fit the everyday lives of our customers.

Q. TemaHome has an interesting group of international product and interior designers - how does this unique team ensure and reflect the mission of TemaHome? A. Our mission is to become a global brand in a globalized world. Our challenge however, is to keep the same strong identity that made us a favorite among consumers in all the 45 countries we do business in. The essence of our identity lies on our enthusiastic group of designers; not every professional can adjust to an Asian mentality in the morning and re-touch something for the US market in the afternoon. Ultimately, our eclectic group of professionals ensures that the products bearing the brand name TemaHome are appreciated across the world.


Q. What are some of the strategies that TemaHome uses to combat these tough economic times? How does TemaHome reinvent itself or invigorate its product assortment? A. While the global crisis is certainly taking a toll on every company in our industry, our current management team made a name for itself by finding the silver lining in every breakpoint situation. We understand that everyone is affected by the economy and therefore, both consumers and retailers rapidly became more selective of their everyday choice. Our answer to this was to create a number of actions that place TemaHome at the forefront of our clients! minds. By aggressively communicating with the end-consumer, we were able to spark a subtle demand for our products in stores in every key market. Next, we introduced a gallery concept that promotes the sale of complete solutions (rather than single items), placing our brand name at a strategic position in stores and making the system so aggressive and appealing to the stores that, as we have been told, they became unrivaled in the marketplace.


Q. How does TemaHome hope to inspire and influence the global interior design market? A. Above everything, all of us at TemaHome are passionate about design and fine living. Every time we see a product feature in a magazine, at a friend's house or at a reference store in a foreign country, we feel a sense of accomplishment that is second only to our will to be part of contemporary living. In 2008, we introduced a line of rugs to our collection. Now, in 2009, we venture into the area of lighting and accessories with the introduction of the LEAF light fixture and the AURORA mirrors to complement our hit bedroom sets. Our goal is to deliver complete solutions that breathe and represent lifestyle. We are in love with fine living and our pledge is to deliver choices to individuals sharing this passion all over the world.

12 hours downtown (12 horas na baixa)

Portuguese design became a case for the Police (not really!) last weekend when the creative staff of the Portugal Brands initiative had an exhibition at a space downtown Porto, with key items from the associated brands. Cool stuff!


For more, visit their web site at www.portugalbrands.pt

PORTUGAL BRANDS

For those who don´t know, Portugal Brands is a private initiative born in 2008, with the mission of encouraging and promoting a whole new creative and modern image of Portugal within the design industry.

As such, TemaHome was certainly included as one of the driving forces for this new approach to portuguese design.




During the week of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last month, Portugal Brand was present at the traditional Via Tortona, in an exhibition that drew more then 46.000 visitors to acknowledge and appreciate this entire new take on Portuguese design furniture, featuring creations from the best minds in our country.

We are glad it proved to be a success, and greatly proud to have been part of it. Check out the Portugal Brands website for more information.

FUROSHIKI

Oriental-inspired creations are always warmly welcomed by design lovers. There is something about their simplicity that enables us to identify ourselves with a lifestyle of no excesses and a constant pursue of a broader clarity of thinking.

That is the soul of the Furoshiki rug. Its unusual, symmetric shape adds an impression of motion, along with an eye-pleasing, three-colour pattern which initially seems random, but is actually a well-constructed puzzle worthy of oriental logic. Its name remounts to the popular Japanese technique of gift-wrapping, which transforms most everyday items into smart-looking presents right from the outside. True to its name then, the Furoshiki rug aims to bring personality where it is needed, whenever the gift that is your home needs that little extra.

The Valley Wall system

From a simple corner in your house to the centerpiece of your entertainment room, the Valley wall system brings a wealth of configuration possibilities, making any space look its best, while providing storage and functionality. Whether you place units on the wall or end to end, the uninterrupted surfaces and elegant lines provide exciting sculptural options to any room.



Design by Inês Martinho

The Fernando factor

The mastermind behind our latest success is designer Fernando Brizio. The Portuguese designer the media love to talk about.


Born in Huila, Angola in 1968, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Equipment Design at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. Since 1999, has worked on various projects design, scenarios/backdrops and exhibitions for companies like Authentics, Details and DIM-Die Imaginare Manufaktur of Germany, Protodesign, Atlantis, M Glass, Choreographer Rui Horta, Modalisboa, Schréder, Lux/Loja Atalaia of Portugal, Droog Design and Cor Unum of the Netherlands. He currently teaches at the School of Fine Arts in Caldas da Rainha and was a visiting Professor at the ECAL in Lausanne and at the University of Design and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. His works have are shown in several exhibitions in Europe, Tokyo and San Francisco.

STORMING LISBON TOWN

Lisbon has welcomed the Handle family with enthusiasm and bewilderment. We took them for a tour around this ever so charming city, and judging by the people's looks, they are bound to be an instant hit!! Check out some of the pictures!


THE USUAL SUSPECTS LINED UP!


KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR!


IT'S COOL TO BE GREEN!


HANDLE PLAZA!


Rafael Carvalho reporting from Lisbon, TemaHome's HQ.

TemaHome GALLERIES

Rather than just displaying one or two pieces of our furniture together with a few catalogues, we will encourage shop-owners to create a self-contained “TemaHome shop” inside their own shops, and hopefully add to the retailer’s space that little something we have always tried to do: be close and personal towards customers!


In order to aid retailers maximise our product’s visibility, we have also designed a variety of different promotional structures bearing the TemaHome image (catalogue totems, wall and desk signs and displays) to figure alongside our galleries and have you feel welcomed to our home, enabling them to become fully adaptable to seasons and specific items.



Expect to find our TemaHome concept present in more and more shop spaces around the world!

THE LISBON COLLECTION PHOTOSHOOT

Already available on our YouTube channel, the first of the "making of" videos from The Lisbon Collection's promotional photoshoot, featuring the Gem table, by Filipe Alarcão! With photographs by Carlos Ramos and Fashion by Ana Salazar, it is an unprecedented encounter of fine design, style and genius.

More making of videos will be uploaded soon, so keep up with our updates!

BRAND NEW(SLETTER)

Since January 2009, we have upgraded the look and reach of our Living your Dreams newsletter. It will now include, besides English, translated versions in German, Portuguese, French and - from February - Spanish.

If you haven't done so yet, please subscribe to our newsletter on the textbox found on the right of this blog, or alternatively visit www.temahome.com and enter your email address at the bottom of the page. Stay tuned to exclusive insights from our designers, a word from our CEO, special offers, upcoming events and more!

When Portuguese design becomes Spanish sophistication.

Developed exclusively to the Spanish retail giant El corte Inglés, this wall system sports a new shelving unit with different size slots. The perfect solution to combine odd size objects to your average CD stack. Not to mention the cool visual effect it brings to any wall based on the disposition of different objects. The elements can be combined separably at TemaHome.com. Designed by Inês Martinho.