Sri Lanka Design Festival, Fine Furniture to set new benchmark for interior products

Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) 2015 includes the country’s only dedicated interior design exhibition providing a platform to some of the most exceptional interior product, furniture and spatial design available in the island. Fine Furniture – one of the leading international interior product retailers recently partnered Sri Lanka Design Festival as the International Homeware partner. The partnership will present cutting edge design and true functional innovation in interior spaces as well as the latest interior product design knowledge from Europe, to the wider Sri Lankan masses. Powered by Fine Furniture’s influential international design network, Sri Lanka Design Festival promises to set a new standard for interior products this November.

Fine Furniture Co-founders Niluka and Martin Klement (left) with Sri Lanka Design Festival Founder Linda Speldewinde and Festival Director Mihiri de Silva (right)

Fine Furniture was set up in Colombo by the German structural engineer Martin Klement and his partner Niluka Klement. Identifying the shifts in lifestyles and demands of new property owners in Sri Lanka, Fine Furniture came to provide specialty solutions with cutting edge European design for interior spaces. Today, Fine Furniture occupies a niche in the local market while leading a new outlook for living spaces in Sri Lanka.

Fine Furniture co-Founder Martin Klement stated that it is a new way of thinking and living that the brand wishes to share through SLDF; “When we started Fine Furniture a few years ago, it was answering an obvious need for great kitchens, interior product and furniture that represents the new lifestyle of the modern Sri Lankan. And Sri Lanka responded to us exceptionally well because it is a market that values good quality and good design. At SLDF 2015, Fine Furniture is promoting this modern home culture where people invest on long-lasting, quality products with outstanding design, function and performance for their homes for a new way of living. Sri Lanka Design Festival is a good platform to present this to the relevant stakeholders, so this partnership is something that will contribute to an important move towards cutting-edge, design driven interiors in Sri Lanka.”

Fine Furniture prides itself in bringing down German design engineering excellence and the latest European designer interior product. Home to some of the most cutting edge European designer brands like Häcker Kitchens, Bosch, Welle Möbel, Koinor, Pacific Green, Miele and WMF, Fine Furniture promises to present a spectacular array of furniture, kitchens and total home solutions.

Sri Lanka Design Festival Founder Linda Speldewinde stated that this partnership signifies an important part of the festival that connects international design excellence to Sri Lanka; “While SLDF has a big role to play in highlighting local design, we also have a role to share the latest of international design with Sri Lanka. And, this is not any kind of design but the kind that resonates with our country, with our vision for sustainability and also contributes something unique to our audiences. This is exactly what Fine Furniture delivers as a leading interior product retailer in Sri Lanka and we’re honoured to have them partner us to present a cutting edge international design agenda at SLDF.”

SLDF Founder Linda Speldewinde and Fine Furniture Co-founder Martin Klement formalised the partnership recently 

Sri Lanka Design Festival Interior Design Exhibition was set-up to drive forward an important industry that is booming in Sri Lanka – this is the interior design industry which touches the retail sector, homeware, residences, hotels and tourism etc. Embracing the progress of this growing industry, SLDF aims to bring down international trends and design innovation to Sri Lanka, in order to facilitate a parallel movement in the country. Sri Lanka Design Festival Interior Design Exhibition powered by Fine Furniture is scheduled to take place at SLECC, Colombo from 27 to 29 November and is freely open to for viewing. It is a rare opportunity to engage with international brand retailers such as Fine Furniture and witness a new way of living that is available in Sri Lanka.

To find out more about Fine Furniture log on to facebook.com/FineFurniturePvtLtd and www.finefurniture.lk or call 0777 224 655. Sri Lanka Design Festival can be reached at the festival secretariat at AOD: 29, Lauries Road, Colombo 4 and on 0767771488.