The Waiting Room - Call for entries

The Isos Collection and Furniture Works introduce the Waiting Room, a new concept for 2007.

Furniture Works' new brokerage service, The Waiting Room, is looking for production-ready furniture prototypes to present at the NEC Birmingham in January 2007. If you have a product waiting in the wings, this is an ideal opportunity to make contact with manufacturers, distributors and retailers.

The products will be selected by a panel of industry specialists and showcased on a feature stand at Collection, the contemporary furniture hall at The Furniture Show. Internationally renowned designer Tomoko Azumi has been commissioned to design the feature area.

Deadline: 1 December 2006

Entry eligibility: Applicants must be designers based in London. We are looking for production-ready, design-led furniture prototypes only.

Application: Please note that no participation fee is required. If you have multiple entries, you must send separate entry forms for each design.

Requirements: Selected prototypes must be available for showcasing from 16-26 January 2007.

Judging panel: Tomoko Azumi, Max Fraser, Pascal Fulton-Dowers, Greenwich Village, Tristram Mylius, Hitch Mylius, Andrew Vaughan, CMP Information.

Partners: CMP Information

With support from: Icon Magazine

Furniture Works: Furniture Works aims to establish itself as a central support agency for the furniture industry. Set up by Metropolitan Works with funding from the LDA (London Development Agency), its current focus is to encourage innovation in furniture manufacturing through a programme of support that includes business development, showcasing, training and access to digital / CAD CAM technologies and prototyping.

Furniture Works also offers a 'New Product Development Programme' which provides London's furniture manufacturers with a more intensive, longer-term business support package for new product development. This unique programme, delivered in collaboration with project partners and accessible at any level, offers guidance in the different stages of product development; including an overview of the role of design, reviewing business skills and manufacturing capability, design management, and design development, realisation and prototyping.

The project is led by Metropolitan Works and managed by the City Fringe Partnership. www.metropolitanworks.org