Innovative functional fabrics offer added benefits that are always a key factor in purchasing decisions. After all, when it comes to long-term furnishing choices, efficiency and cost optimisation are also important considerations.

Five selected functional fabrics offer compelling practical advantages: they regulate light and provide blackout, act as thermal insulation, have sound-absorbing properties, filter UV rays, or are particularly robust and easy to care for, so that pulled loops can be pushed back in no time at all.

Functionality therefore often offers an indispensable benefit, but aesthetics and feel must also play their part.