London Design Festival highlights

Japanese-born, London-based artist Meg Shirayama is showing her first solo exhibition at Rocket. Describing her work as three-dimensional paintings she explains the origins of her inspiration: ‘I am interested in the perceptual shift that can occur in the presentation of the object. I refer back to a painting’s original function, which was to activate the space in which it was exhibited.’ On first sight, what appear to be tables or shelves are merely skeletons of the furniture they resemble. In the smaller side gallery is a small exhibition of designs and archive material of Danish modernist Poul Kjaerholm. What’s interesting (apart from the fact his chrome frame chairs sold for just $49 in 1959) is how these iconic, frame designs compliment Shirayama’s work, the right-angled structure being the central element to both. http://www.rocketgallery.com