Loom-Möbel
Loom Möbel, Foto: jeo0072007_flickr
Die folgende Geschichte ist wohl exemplarisch für die aktuelle Wirtschafstlage mittelgroßer Betriebe aber es ist auch eine Erfolgsgeschichte der Möbelbranche. Es geht um die Möbelmanufaktur Accente aus Viersen am Niederrhein, das wie viele mittelständische Unternehmen einen Eigentümer hatte, der händeringend nach geeigneten Nachfolgern suchte. Die Jugendfreunde Michael Steinbach und Andreas Naujoks musterten 180 Angebote bis sie sich für Accente entschieden und stiegen trotz kaum vorhandener Kenntnisse der Möbelbranche als geschäftsführende Gesellschafter bei Heinz und Hans Vieten ein. Diese hatten bereits 1981 als Brüder begonnen hochwertige Möbel aus Loom herzustellen.
Dieses Material wurde 1917 vom Amerikaner Marshall Lloyd Burns 1917 erfunden. Er ließ statt des damals üblichen Peddigrohr oder Weide, Papierfasern flechten bzw. papierummantelten Stahldraht und Papierzwirn und dies maschinell zu Matten verweben. In den 2oern und 30ern war Loom sehr beliebt, doch mit der Kunststoff-Revolution rückte es mehr in den Hintergrund. Erst durch das Aufblühen des Country-Stils erlebte der Stoff eine Renaissance, doch die neuen Eigentümer wollen das Material und auch die Firma Accente aus genau dieser Landhaus-Schublade hinausholen. Dazu gab es zunächst eine moderne Website, einen neuen Showroom und auch ein neues Logo zur „Revitalisierung“ denn neben dem Inland möchte man auch das Ausland erobern.
Auch einen neuen Gestalter stellten sie ein: Martin Ballendat, ein umtriebiger Österreicher mit eigenem Designbüro, der die „neue Produktsprache“ findne soll, laut Steinbach. Ballendat verantwortet alle Neuheiten und auch die Standdekoration auf der Möbelmesse 2010.
![pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: "Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada."In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times."Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote "Stop the madness" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6907299869_90b5012410.jpg "pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: \"Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada.\"In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times.\"Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote \"Stop the madness\" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)")
