Nilteks, Heimtextil 2023

Heimtextil is the largest trade fair in the world for home and contract textiles, and it is also where the economic argument for building in Turkey is easiest to see: a small plot at a German venue is expensive to build locally and cheap to ship. The stand was designed and produced in our Istanbul workshop, crated, freighted to Frankfurt and installed on site.

At this plot size the design question is not how much architecture you can fit, but how much of the fabric a visitor can read from the aisle. The layout keeps the product forward and the structure behind it — a textile buyer stops for the material, not for the joinery. Hall power was connected by the venue's authorised electrical company, as Messe Frankfurt requires, and the stand's own wiring was built to VDE/DIN so the inspection was a formality rather than a problem.