click

The Warsaw Home & Contract 2022 trade fair has passed into history. What will be left behind? Beautiful memories and hundreds of fantastic new business and private acquaintances. For the second year in a row, together with the UMMO brand, we appeared at the Polish design fest in Ptak Expo. How did our stand present itself, what most appealed to visitors, and what surprised them? We invite you to a brief summary of what happened during the 6th edition of Warsaw Home & Contract. Here we go!

What was waiting for the visitors of Warsaw Home & Contract 2022?

4 days, over 700 exhibitors, 6 fair sectors (Light, Textile, Kitchen, Furniture, Build and Bathroom) and tens of thousands of visitors. This is how the fair looks in numbers. Design lovers will not complain of boredom during the fair. In addition to visiting hundreds of stands, they can attend a number of lectures on the latest trends and innovations in design. This year's special guest was designer Karim Rashid, who has won the most important industry awards.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

What does the fair look like from an exhibitor's perspective?

From the exhibitor's perspective, the fair is not a few days during and before, but several months of preparation at full speed. From designing and producing the premiere models of lamps, to planning and creating a booth, to taking care of wholesale quantities of catalogs and gadgets. Such an event requires a lot of time and work to meet the expectations of demanding guests. The enormity of warm words and acquired business contacts collected once again during the Nadarzyn fair shows us that this work is not in vain.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

What did the UMMO brand surprise guests with during the 6th edition of Warsaw Home & Contract?

This year's edition of Warsaw Home & Contract was exceptional for us. It was during the event that we presented you with the results of our cooperation with the SALAK design studio- the first cooperation in the history of the UMMO brand! We also saw the light of day with new collections - SALLO, SAUVA, PARUMA, ROKKE, SAKOSI, OPMA, ISUULLA, OIO and KELLO, which are now available in our online store. There were also long-awaited lamps with increased IP44 protection class. The ROKKE collection turned out to be the biggest hit, as you can see on our instagram profile in the featured stories. We heard plenty of positive comments about the SAUVA, PARUMA and ISUULLA lines. UMMO's new offerings appeared to be very consistent with the trends we've seen at other expositions, namely minimalism, functionality and geometric forms.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Other attractions at the UMMO booth

In addition, visitors could pick up special discount codes, catalogs, canvas bags and... incense stands, referring to the design of our lamps.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

What definitely made our stand stand stand out was the color scheme. Many people praised the pastel pink, which looked downright fabulous against the other monochromatic displays in the lighting sector. Visitors also liked the pots styled by the UMMO brand, so you will soon buy them in our store.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Balance Warsaw Home & Contract 2022

Over the course of 4 days, several thousand visitors came to our fair booth, including very many from abroad. During this time we pinned more than half a thousand of your reports on Instagram! We handed out nearly a thousand catalogs alone - some of the team that stayed in the Gdynia studio twice had to send us catalogs. Many architects personally appreciated that we provide ready-made 3D models of our lamps, which makes us very happy. We will not count how often visitors to the exhibition made big eyes at the information that our lamps are hand-assembled in Poland, and their price - even in inflationary conditions - is very affordable.

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

After Warsaw Home & Contract 2022, it's time for another trade fair, this time abroad. Which one? Stay tuned!

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

Pracownia Światła Mariusz Pacholski carried out a Project subsidized by the European Regional Development Fund under the title: "Participation in the international interior design fair Warsaw Home & Contract from 19-10-2022 - 22-10-2022 in Warsaw as an exhibitor".

Fot. Tomasz Milewczyk

  • We kept hearing the same thing from architects, good acoustic solutions never look good enough.👁️‍🗨️

So we took MALUMI, a form and colour range that already works in almost any interior, and asked one question: how do you add acoustic function without it showing?🎧

The answer was felt. But not just any felt, every panel colour matched by hand to the lamp finish. Nothing bolted on, nothing that looks like a technical upgrade to a design object.

The workshop process didn’t change much. The thinking behind it did.

MALUMI Acoustic, coming soon!🙌🏻

Have you ever had to choose between acoustics and design? 👇

#acousticlamp #acousticinteriors #acousticdesign #polishdesign #workshopspace
  • Gdynia made the UNESCO World Heritage List.🔘

For us, it was always a world heritage city.🤍

#polishdesigner #gdynia_official #modernismarchitecture #handcraftedlamp #workshopspace
  • We have been working on this one for a long time, so stay tuned…

Acoustic MALUMI coming soon!🔵

#acousticlighting #handcraftedlighting #polishdesign #acousticinteriors #modernlamp
  • We spent a lot of time on this!👀

Pairing the right felt with the right lamp finish isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. 

Every felt colour matched deliberately to a MALUMI finish, because an acoustic lamp should look like it belongs, not like a technical solution bolted onto a design.

Have you worked with acoustic lighting before?🎧 

#acousticlighting #acousticdesign #workshoptime #polishdesign #officelighting
  • RIFLO lamp in Vermilion. An oval form that references modernist architecture and fluted glass that breaks light into something more interesting than light usually is. 

A custom order, the client had a specific colour in mind so we made it happen and it’s one of our favorites!🔴

#walllamp #flutedglass #modernistdesign #polishdesign #burgundypalette
  • Even UMMO colour swatches are handmade.

Every colour sample that leaves our workshop is powder coated, finished and checked by hand.🖐️ 

If you’re choosing a colour for a project, you should feel exactly what you’re getting!

#handmadelamp #craftmanship #lightingdesign #polishdesign #workshoptime
  • SENKEI lamp takes its name from the Japanese word for lines. 

Over a kitchen island in Reed Green, that’s all it needs to be. One clean line, 138 cm of it, doing what good design always does: making the room feel considered. ✦

#lightingdesign #modernlighting #kitchenisland #polishdesign #kitchenlighting
  • Five colours. One form. CAPONIO lamp - pick yours.🔴

Which one fits your project? 

Drop it in the comments.👇

#modernlamp #polishdesignscene #italianvibes #colourininteriors #handcrafteddesign
  • YOTTSU started as a study in Italian minimalism from the 90s. Stainless steel takes it somewhere else. Make it rawer, quieter, more architectural.🔘

Steel YOTTSU coming soon!👀

#steeldesign #polishdesign #modernlamp #midcenturymod #handcrafteddesign
  • Most brands start with a mood board. UMMO started with a flight to Milan, a walk through Salone del Mobile, and two people from Gdynia who couldn’t stop thinking about what they’d seen on the way home🌞

The other half of the story was already waiting in Gdynia. 🌊 A city built almost entirely in one modernist decade, where simplicity of form and honest use of material weren’t aesthetic choices, they were a way of thinking🔘

Gdynia and its modernist architectural structure shaped them both. Mariusz and Michał, founders of UMMO.

#gdynia_official #modernlighting #modernismarchitecture #polishdesign #craftmanship
  • MALUMI in Vermilion completes this mid-century modern living room area entirely🔴

What do you think?👀

Interior designed by @ewelinapolakstudio and @magpuzstudio 
Ph: @photez 

#midcenturymoderndesign #modernlighting #redlamp #overtablelighting #polishdesign
  • When the city finally cools down after a long hot day, the apartment becomes the best place to be. FUNSUI on the side table and a book you’ve been meaning to start📘

The light through milky glass is soft enough that you forget to turn anything else on🔵

#modernlighting #tablelampdesign #bluedesign #polishdesign #handcrafteddesign