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Main image: © Vanessa Frank From top right: Contanze (left) and Vanessa (right). © Jürgen Löhlein © Vanessa Frank © Ralf Repp © Kristina Dortmann © Vanessa Frank
The favourite place for you and your pet German start-up company Darling Little Place creates exclusive interior design cushions, which are perfectly suited for both pets and people. Here, the two founders Vanessa and Constanze Frank explain how this innovative idea came about.
cushion itself as well as, in a wider sense, your home which can become the family’s favourite place thanks to our stylish cushions on the couch, floor or bed.”
TEXT: SONJA IRANI
Not only for pets
“We have big Irish Wolfhounds and for many years we’ve been looking for the perfect dog pillows,” remembers Vanessa Frank. “But we never found a satisfactory solution that would seamlessly and stylishly integrate into our home without looking like a plain and ugly dog bed. The pillows we tried also regularly fell apart after a short amount of time.” 34 | Issue 40 | July 2016
Thus, Vanessa and Constanze Frank decided to take matters into their own hands. With their combined background in architecture, design and leadership, they founded their company and started to design a completely new kind of pet pillow for cats and dogs. “Darling Little Place refers to a person’s or pet’s favourite spot,” explains Frank. “This term describes the
Darling Little Place’s so-called duo cushion is made up of two attachable inner cushions: a quilt against pressure marks and a so-called shake cushion for an extra boost of comfort. The quilt can be removed and used as a play blanket for children or as a protective couch cover. In your car, this quilt also works as pet’s travel bed. With an additional cover also available from the online shop, customers