Barthelmess, Vision, Barcelona, 2015

Barthelmess hosted their international annual future congress, Vision, in Barcelona recently.  Successful trade concepts, challenges of the future, perspectives and innovation were the key themes this year with guest speakers including freelance consultant Gerald Grare, consultant Dr. Christian Mikunda and innovation expert Stephen Jung.  At the end of the few days, participants were taken on a tour of Barcelona in order to apply their new found knowledge and evaluate new store concepts across the city.  It really is fantastic to see a company such as Barthelmess leading the way in future thinking within retail and Visual Merchandising and making such an enormous contribution across the industries. Check out their website here too to see what they can offer you.  http://www.barthelmessuk.com/

VM & Display Show, Barthelmess UK, London

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Barthelmess, Germany

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The designers and trend scouts of visual merchandising specialist Barthelmess have just published their latest fantastic workbook which presents a multitude of visual merchandising inspirations for SS14.  The days of purism and minimalism are definitely gone. ‘It’s going to be cheerful, vibrant and floral,’ Barthelmess designer Doris Repper reports. ‘Flowers, trees and grass growing and blooming in all sorts of shapes and sizes – whether with an urban flair in greenhouses, geometric in back lit acrylic cubes or light..’ Nature’s poetry is pervading the city. Huge patterns, origami and the combination of organic and geometric forms characterise the scenes. Everything is gigantic; over sized objects are mirrored repeatedly to create exciting and enthralling worlds – just for the summer with compositions of water lilies, lotuses and flamingos at the centre.  The comic strip scenes will create a special accent with Superheroes conquering next year’s installations.  Just watch this space we say.