London Design Festival: preview

LomoWorldWall

100,000 images from the global Lomography crowd will be displayed on a giant LomoWorldWall in Trafalgar Square, where 1000 cameras will also be given to members of the public with the intention that they photograph London over the course of the festival, upload the images onto the Lomography website and then a selection will be included in the interactive final part of the exhibition. The festival will also host the Lomography World Congress, at which international delegates at the forefront of global analogue photography are being invited to take part in a series of discussions about the topic.

When: 17th to 22nd September

Where: Trafalgar Square, WC2

Suzy Hoodless

Former Wallpaper* Interiors Director, Suzy Hoodless has gone on to great things, specialising in interior design and opening her own store in West London, selling her own designs alongside selected pieces she sources from around the world. For the London Design Festival, she has curated a selling exhibition of pieces from tomorrow’s design stars, including wallpaper, textiles, ceramics and glass by jenny Beardshall, Laura Coburn, Chris Hudson, Stephen Johnson and Stephanie Sloane.

When: 17th to 28th September

Where: Suzy Hoodless, 10 Clarendon Cross, W11 4AP

Swarovski Crystal Palace

A seminal part of every global design fair, Swarovski Crystal Palace, sponsors of the London Design Festival this year, have taken over the recently refurbished and reopened Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, and will be showing five chandeliers from this year’s crop: the extraordinary Mediterraneo by Gaetano Pesce, Pandora by Fredrikson Stallard, Mini Voyage by Yves Behar, Prived Oca by the Campana brothers and Tulsa 1 & 2 by Michael Anastassiades. The imaginative designs will be on show throughout the festival and click back soon to see our behind-the-scenes gallery of how the chandeliers were hung.

When: 17 to 25 September

Where: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX

Maarten Baas: Sculpt Series

Wallpaper* favourite, blowtorch wielding Maarten Baas is showing his latest collection ‘Sculpt’ at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Leaving behind the charred furniture of his celebrated ‘Smoke and Clay’ series, ‘Sculpt’, his new work, pushes the boundaries of scale instead. Oversized chairs, cupboards, tables and drawers are on offer and a perfect example of ‘Design Art’ in demonstrating how furniture, pushed the notion of simple functionality, can become objects of art as well as design. Each piece is limited to an edition of 8 however, retaining a sense that these designs are still for sale, not just works of art in a gallery.

When: 14th to 25th September

Where: Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 2 Michael Road, SW6 2AD

Tent London

After 100% Design, Tent London is the biggest conglomerate of design, shows and installations, housed at the infinitely more amiable location of East London’s Truman Brewery. The event is divided into separate categories: Circa - the UK’s first event for vintage design, featuring 40 of Europe’s leading dealers; Content - the largest section, showcases contemporary lighting, furniture, materials and products from new and established names alike; Superbrands - take over the Atlantis Gallery, turning it into The Ultimate Lounge and showing new products by Moooi, Edra and Greenwich Village to name just a few; Your Space – highlights of Sweden’s best young designers; Talent Zone – a juried and curated exhibition of 150 of the UK’s most talented design graduates and finally Urbantine Project – a competition for emerging designers and architects, the winner of which will receive £10,000 and the opportunity to design something for the Truman Brewery site.

When: 20th to 23rd September

Where: Truman Brewery, Brick lane, E1

Tom Dixon in Trafalgar Square

Creative Director of 100% Design, Tom Dixon is taking his environmental awareness drive into the very heart of London and creating an installation in Trafalgar Square of 2,500 low-energy compact fluorescent light bulbs. Powered for two hours a day (and linked to a renewable energy source), the light bulbs will be handed out to members of the public on the final Saturday to spread the word that sustainability and environmental awareness needn’t mean scrimping on good design.

When: 17th to 19th Septmeber

Where: Trafalgar Square, WC2

Townhouse DK

This charming project sees Danish architect Rene Hougaard together with London architects CGL and the Danish embassy, converting a very traditional London Mews house into a modern Danish home- Townhouse DK – structured, furnished and decorated entirely with products from Denmark. The idea is to showcase Danish design as it would appear in situ in someone’s home rather than presenting in a showroom alongside a thousand other exhibits. The house is open to the public until the end of December and will play host to special programmes on art, design and architecture throughout.

When: 15th September to 20th December

Where: 20 Egerton Garden Mews, SW3 2EH

Trash Luxe exhibition

The notion of one man’s rubbish being another man’s treasure is not exactly new, but certainly becoming a significant force in the design world as a unique take on sustainability and recycling. Celebrating the creative potential of scavenging, our favourite department store Liberty is hosting an exhibition, curated by Marcus Fairs. ‘Trash Luxe’ will bring together a clutch of designers specialising in found materials and unwanted goods.

When: 20 to 30 September

Where: Liberty, Regent Street, W1B 5AH

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