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Sleep better, recover faster, live more efficiently: The desire for optimisation has long since reached our homes. Under the title ‘Home-Maxxing – The Performance of Everyday Living’, Heimtextil Trends 27/28 show how our relationship with efficiency-driven thinking and technology is influencing the design of spaces and textiles. The more sleep, wellness, routines, materials and spaces are optimised, the stronger the desire for a home that does not demand even more of us.
The demands placed on spaces are becoming more varied. In an increasingly fast-paced and digital everyday life, they are expected to provide a sense of orientation, meet functional requirements and, at the same time, offer respite. ‘Home-Maxxing’ addresses this tension. Textiles regulate light, absorb sound or filter air. At the same time, there is growing demand for materials that are pleasant to the touch, durable and do not create additional pressure to optimise. Whether at home, in a hotel, in the workplace or in healthcare, interior design must strike a new balance between performance and human needs. Together with the Milan-based design platform Alcova, Heimtextil translates this development into three trend directions: Staged Competence, Inside, Out and Hyper Presence. They range from visibly staged technical performance and exposed fastenings to materials whose tactility, texture and longevity take centre stage.
After all this optimisation comes the counter-movement. Hyper Presence turns attention to what cannot be measured: how a fabric feels against the skin, how a material ages or the atmosphere created by texture. Beeswax-treated fabrics demonstrate how powerfully materials can engage the senses: when warmed, they release the natural scent of honey and propolis. The trend responds to constant digital overstimulation with a deliberate physical presence. Materials accordingly take centre stage: natural fibres, rough, richly textured surfaces, wool, leather and wood-based textiles engage the body and the senses. Creases, patina and signs of wear are not flaws, but part of their character.
The colours, too, leave the digital world behind. Deep rust, burnt orange, ochre, dusty pink and a pale, warm off-white evoke fire, clay and oxidised metal. The palette is warm, earthy and calming, making it the clearest counterpoint to the cool, technical aesthetic of the other two trend directions.
