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Paravent ‘Wave’.
Rug ‘Carée’.
Handcrafted felt furnishings for characterful rooms with great acoustics HEY-SIGN, based near Düsseldorf, combines sustainability, eco-friendliness and high-class design using natural wool felt. The material has many outstanding quality features, the fibres are durable, stain resistant and help to absorb sound. This is why HEY-SIGN designs not only feature in private homes, but do exceptionally well in office spaces. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN I PHOTOS: HEY-SIGN, REIMUND BRAUN
Smartphones and tablets have changed working environments, allowing flexible assignments of office desks. But they have also made it necessary to create spaces where people can retreat and relax. In recent years, HEY-SIGN has put a greater focus on customised elements for the business world, especially because the sound-absorbing quality of felt makes it so well suited for this environment. In accordance to this, HEY-SIGN has recently designed a new range of room dividers, partitions and acoustic elements. Interesting for large office spaces, home offices or lounges is the newly extended highly sound-absorbing series WAVE. The name says everything about the form. HEY-SIGN recently complemented the room divider with wall, room and table modules that create a great room acoustic and additionally separates spaces visually. 10 | Issue 48 | March 2017
For this, HEY-SIGN has been awarded the German Design Award 2017 in the ‘Special Mentions’ category. The WAVE series is also very suitable for home offices and private residences. Often enough, home offices are very uninspiring places and can be just a spare bedroom or a corner in the living room. This can be easily changed: Using felt in living rooms or bedrooms creates a great room atmosphere, makes larger spaces more relaxed and adds cosiness to small ones. HEYSIGN products fit into nearly every space, because customers can choose between 50 different colours – from natural earthy tones to bright yellow, red or turquoise. For more than 18 years now, the creative duo Bernadette Ehmanns and Mathias Hey have been the driving force behind HEY-SIGN. Both discovered felt as the
product for interior design in 1999 and since then have developed a wide product range, addressing the technical potential of this age-old natural material: Lamps, rugs and high-quality felt accessories like paper baskets, boxes, table decorations or seat cushions for designer chairs set colourful accents. The raw material for the felt collection is the best merino wool. The material is left natural without any chemical treatment. All products are manufactured at the HEY-SIGN manufactory in Meerbusch – handmade in Germany. www.hey-sign.de
Wooden bowl.
Seating furniture ‘Enno’.