Heimtextil 2025 – Interior. Architecture. Hospitality. – Frankfurt am Main – Impressions

Heimtextil Talks+Tours and Guided Tour with international designers and experts – World-Architects, in collaboration with Messe Frankfurt, organized two engaging Talks+Tours with Prof. Veronika Aumann and Sophie Green, as well as one Guided Tour exclusively in Italian with Marina Cella. These free events featured renowned architects and designers who highlighted key aspects of Heimtextil 2025, the leading trade fair for home and contract textiles.

Marina Cella Marina Cella © Alfonso Peralta

Guided Tour #01:
Marina Cella
»The beauty that closes the circle«

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»The beauty that closes the circle«

Closing the circle is an aesthetic gesture that renews our gaze, inviting us to feel every fiber, discover the echo of colors, and understand the texture of the transient. Completing the material cycle is the heartbeat of our design today—an invitation to shift perspectives and uncover a beauty we once overlooked within rawness and authenticity. It’s about erasing the imposed image, unraveling the familiar lines, and finding harmony in the rugged and imperfect. This is how we project the future onto a fresh canvas, where fabrics and interiors emerge from their essence, teaching us to see and truly comprehend materials anew.

Marina Cella

Marina Cella is a Senior Architect with extensive experience in residential architecture, specializing in the design of single-family homes and apartments. She has a strong background in leadership and project management and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in architecture with a focus on energy and the environment at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Marina has also shared her expertise as a lecturer at LCI School, delivering master classes on environmental topics.

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Co-Guide — Miriam Giordano
Labóh, Barcelona

Veronika Aumann Veronika Aumann © Lukas Fischer

Talk+Tour #01:
Veronika Aumann
»Materiality & Physicality«

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»Materiality & Physicality«

Where and in what way do textiles engage with us in space? How does their material flatness behave in the realm of the three-dimensional? What can the delicate density, the flowing softness and the elegant fullness of textiles effect? Guided by these questions, we look at project examples and embark on a tour through the materiality and physicality of textiles in space.

Veronika Aumann

Prof. Veronika Aumann (*1985 in Munich) is a textile designer and researcher. She lives and works in Berlin and is head of the Textile Design Course at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart. Her focus is on new materials and technologies, she is interested in the physicality of textiles and fascinated by the contradictory nature of virtual haptics.

Veronika Aumann is the initiator of the Task Force Textiles, part of the Forschungskreis – Erkenntnis im Design und in den Künsten, co-founder of the Verein der Gestaltung Berlin e.V., member of the Mart-Stam-Gesellschaft and the design collective Beyond Materials. In 2018, she received a scholarship for artistic research from the Federal Environment Agency. From 2019 to 2021, she was a doctoral student in the artistic PhD program PhDArts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden (NL) and worked on an unfinished PhD on the topic of 'Digital Materials'. Through lectures, workshops, publications and exhibitions, she takes an active position in the current design discourse.

Veronika Aumann is a fan of Anni Albers, 1.FC Union Berlin and her three-year-old son. 

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Co-Guide — Renato Turri
World-Architects | Zürich

Sophie Green Sophie Green © Olaf Becker

Talk+Tour #02:
Sophie Green
»sustainable abundance – design interiors for a circular future«

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»sustainable abundance – design interiors for a circular future«

Exploring how sustainable interior architecture embraces abundance through circular design. Join us as we dive into innovative reuse, modularity, and regenerative materials that transform interiors into spaces of beauty and resilience—proving that luxury and sustainability can go hand in hand.

Sophie Green

Sophie Green is a German-American interior architect and the founder of the Brussels-based design studio sophiegreen. A graduate of Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, she specializes in sustainable, analytical, and conceptual designs for public and private projects across Germany and Belgium. Her notable works include office and educational projects,  library renovations for the Goethe-Institut in cities like Nairobi, Zagreb, and Dhaka, as well as her role as an external expert as experienced interior architect for the European Parliament. Advocating for building within the already build environment and  circular economy principles, Sophie is an active member of the German Federal Chamber of Architects (BAK) and board member-elect of the European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA), where she continues to shape the professional and political future of the interior architectural field.

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Co-Guide — Renato Turri
World-Architects | Zürich

Heimtextil Follow-up Report

The textile spatial installation “among-us” by designer and architect Patricia Urquiola (Photo: © Mathias Duerr, World-Architects)

Heimtextil 2025: The future is now

Despite digital networking and a focus on efficiency, trade fairs are more in demand than ever as places for physical encounters. This is confirmed by the outstanding results of this year's Heimtextil, which took place from January 14 to 17 in Frankfurt.

The future is now
Die Zukunft ist jetzt

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