Precision Israeli Design on the Global Stage at Heimtextil 2025, Germany

At Heimtextil 2025, the world’s leading event for textile and interior design, the Vasco da Gama Collection was unveiled for the first time. This furniture series was born from a rare fusion of traditional craftsmanship, cutting-edge printing technology, and meticulous design planning. Inspired by the legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who opened the sea route from Europe to India, the collection features custom map-inspired prints developed by Niso’s in-house design team. It’s a visual dialogue between historical discovery and modern aesthetics.

What makes this collection truly unique is its printing method. This isn’t a repeating print on a fabric roll, far from it. Each piece of fabric or leather is printed individually, tailored exactly to the structure of the furniture it will cover. Every cut section receives its own unique print, and yet the seams connect seamlessly, as if the design was born that way. Achieving this requires highly complex digital planning, paired with sensitive, expert craftsmanship. It is likely one of the first times globally, if not the first, that furniture models have undergone such a highly customized printing process.

The collection speaks a rich design language. The Duba armchair, upholstered in custom-printed fabric, swivels with presence and elegance. The Tsoof sofa creates a sense of lightness with its crescent shape. The Sharoni coffee table, wrapped in leather with exposed bold stitching, feels like a crafted sculpture. The Macaron table, designed like a modern totem, and the Cube chair, bringing precise geometry and understated sophistication, each piece seems to belong to another time, and yet fully belongs to the present.

Kornit Digital, a global leader in digital textile printing, primarily known for its work in fashion, is now entering the world of furniture for the very first time. An Israeli company with a strong global presence, including development centers and customers worldwide, Kornit is also publicly traded in the U.S. This is the second collaboration between Niso and Kornit, following the highly successful debut of printed furniture pavilions at Tel Aviv Fashion Week a few years ago. This time, the partnership runs deeper, into the very core of design, not just its surface.

At the heart of this project stands Daniel Horowitz, who led it with a rare blend of technological insight, material passion, and design vision. Special credit is also due to Ronen Samuel, CEO of Kornit, who believed in this collaboration from the start.

The exhibition itself, Heimtextil, one of Europe’s most important for interior design and textiles, was the perfect stage to showcase a collection that’s no longer just an idea, but a finished product. A design that sits proudly on an international platform, while fitting naturally into homes across Israel. And in fact, it already has. Every model presented in Frankfurt has since become part of Niso’s permanent collection, celebrated by private clients and designers alike, proving once again that a piece of furniture can be more than a product. It can be a discovery.

Articles published following the exhibition at Heimtextil 2025: