Presentation of the 2014 Collection
IMM Cologne

At IMM Cologne 2014, Felix Schwake presented his new collection of functional art, including the desk that had shortly before been awarded the Interior Innovation Award 2014.

The project explored the question of how concentrated work can be spatially organized within an increasingly technologically saturated working environment. The objective was not the staging of technology, but its complete integration into a calm architectural order.

The design is based on a clearly reduced geometry within which all functional requirements are absorbed. Cables, charging devices, technical connections, and work utensils disappear entirely within the object and visually recede into the background.

Beneath the extendable work surface are integrated storage areas as well as multimedia interfaces including USB, power, and network connections. Technology therefore remains immediately accessible at all times without being permanently visible or disturbing the spatial calmness of the environment.

The work understands the desk not as an isolated design object, but as part of an atmospheric working environment. Open surfaces, clear proportions, and visual order support concentration while reducing spatial unrest in everyday life.

The jury of the Interior Innovation Award particularly recognized the connection between purist design and intelligent functional integration. The project exemplifies the position of Felix Schwake between architecture, interior design, and functional art: function is not made additionally visible, but fully integrated into the spatial order itself.

The reduced formal language does not serve a decorative minimalist aesthetic, but a conscious spatial concentration. Materiality, light, and proportion create a calm presence that supports the working environment without dominating it.

With its presentation at IMM Cologne, this design approach was introduced for the first time to an international professional audience on a larger scale. The project demonstrated that functional requirements and spatial calmness are not opposites, but can instead strengthen one another.