The Role of Interior Design
Mário Picouto
The World of Furniture Design
Frederico Albergaria
CEO of Cobermaster
The Internet is, in reality, a fantastic tool that allows us, in a very simple and practical way, to search for all kinds of information about everything that surrounds us. A simple search for furniture opens the door onto hundreds of websites on decoration, with access to thousands of products manufactured all around the world, to suit all tastes, trends and wallets.
However, despite this huge array of options, how many times do you find yourself incessantly looking for something that really grabs your attention?... And how many times do you end up giving up because you’ve found nothing?... Or have you been left with the feeling that you’ve seen so many different solutions, but at the same time they’re all the same?...
You just need to visit some international fairs, such as Maison et Objet, in Paris, or the Isaloni, in Milan, to realise that there are a growing number of manufacturers with more products and solutions for the decoration sector. But sometimes you can make a detailed visit to fairs and get to the end with the feeling that you haven’t found what you were looking for.
The way I see it, there is an obvious reason for this. It all has to do with the fact that most furniture manufacturers are unconsciously tied to the pre-defined concept of what a table, a lamp, a console, or any other piece of furniture is. Most lamp manufacturers, for example, are very concerned about creating lamps with new shapes, sizes, colours and combination of materials. However, they are unable to recreate the concept of a lamp, and always end up by designed another piece made up of a base, a stem and a lampshade.
At COBERMASTER CONCEPT our focus is precisely the creation of entirely reinvented decoration pieces, stripped of predefined concepts or trends. We don’t build up any barriers that might limit our creative process, and in this way we try to go further in this process of innovation and design.
However, despite this huge array of options, how many times do you find yourself incessantly looking for something that really grabs your attention?... And how many times do you end up giving up because you’ve found nothing?... Or have you been left with the feeling that you’ve seen so many different solutions, but at the same time they’re all the same?...
You just need to visit some international fairs, such as Maison et Objet, in Paris, or the Isaloni, in Milan, to realise that there are a growing number of manufacturers with more products and solutions for the decoration sector. But sometimes you can make a detailed visit to fairs and get to the end with the feeling that you haven’t found what you were looking for.
The way I see it, there is an obvious reason for this. It all has to do with the fact that most furniture manufacturers are unconsciously tied to the pre-defined concept of what a table, a lamp, a console, or any other piece of furniture is. Most lamp manufacturers, for example, are very concerned about creating lamps with new shapes, sizes, colours and combination of materials. However, they are unable to recreate the concept of a lamp, and always end up by designed another piece made up of a base, a stem and a lampshade.
At COBERMASTER CONCEPT our focus is precisely the creation of entirely reinvented decoration pieces, stripped of predefined concepts or trends. We don’t build up any barriers that might limit our creative process, and in this way we try to go further in this process of innovation and design.
