London Design Festival 2011

Street ViewPimlico Road

While areas of the capital like Clerkenwell may be home to the global furniture mega brands, a leafy street in South-West London has long been drawing the design cognoscenti with its troop of independent shops and galleries.

Preview

With so much to see and so little time, we've made life easy by bringing you our edit of the top 25 events at this year's festival...

Video: Textile Field by Ronan & Ewan Bouroullec

Watch the Breton brothers' textile installation, in collaboration with Kvadrat, take shape in the Raphael Gallery at London's V&A museum...

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Ascent by Barber Osgerby, Haunch of Venison

Jay Osgerby likes planes. He grew up near a Royal Airforce base in Oxfordshire and watched the planes ascend and descend...

Formafantasma at Gallery Libby Sellers, London

Once upon a time admirers of Libby Sellers were made to follow her, like 1990s ravers, to temporary locations across London, where she would hold exhibitions featuring Europe's most progressive designers...

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

For architects, designers and artists the mid-1980s was an era when being brash, witty, colourful and even kitsch was considered de rigueur....

RCA students take over Fendi's new London store

Fendi has officially moved into its new Peter Marino -designed store in London's Sloane Street. On display next to Karl Lagerfeld's furs and fashion, and Silvia Venturini Fendi's bags, shoes and leather accessories, are works of lesser-known, and rather more local talent: students from the Royal College of Art....

London Design Medal 2011

It’s not every day you’re asked to visit an off-limits historical landmark to fete not one but two of your heroes. But we did just that, at the 2011 London Design Medal ceremony...

David Chipperfield talks about Size + Matter

With the opening of the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield and Turner Contemporary in Margate, David Chipperfield is having a moment in the UK, so it's fitting that he should be the designer of this year's Size + Matter project...

Noma Bar show and Wallpaper* collaboration

Noma Bar's graphic works of art are deceptively simple. Sharp and unadorned, their purity belies the philosophy behind them, and the cheeky double-take they provoke...