Wellness Furniture

The Manila Times:
At the forthcoming Philippine International Furniture Show 2005 (organized by the Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Philippines on February 28 to March 3 at the World Trade Center and the Philippine Trade Training Center) of which Aranador is design director and show curator, and where more than a hundred furniture firms from all over the country are expected to join, will unveil what Aranador calls the “wellness furniture.”
Wellness furniture is a design concept that evolved from Aranador’s reading of the pulse of the times. “A great number of people will be turning 60 by 2030 and they will be very keen on wellness of mind and body,” he explains. “Even now people over 40 are becoming more and more conscious of staying fit and able and as free from stress as possible.
Aranador is looking at a balance between the elderly market and the younger market, which share the same needs, if not the same esthetics. Generally, he says, the wellness furniture will have a “nomadic” character—they are foldable, loadable, stackable, and easy to move around, whether from one room to another or from one apartment to another.
Expect to see at the PIFS 2005 the period, classic, neo-classic, contemporary modern and other styles that prodigious Filipino manufacturers have mastered. How they will interpret and execute the new concept of wellness furniture will be the dramatic highlight and excitement of this much-awaited international furniture show.
Wellness concept reaches out to furniture trends [The Manila Times]