Adding to its broad, annual showcase for the London Design Festival, Designjunction has enlisted Ercol and Anglepoise - alongside a host of creative luminaries - to collaborate on a project that combines iconic British design with an altruistic mission.
Curated by British designer Anthony Dickens, ‘A Child’s Dream’ is an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Edward Louis Reid, Designjunction director Deborah Spencer’s three-month-old nephew who tragically passed away earlier this year. To honour his short life, the family set up Teddy’s Wish, a charity dedicated to raising money for research into the causes of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), neonatal death and stillbirth, and to provide support to the families affected.
The project is supported by the two British family-run brands, Ercol and Anglepoise, who donated key products to be used as a blank canvas by nineteen names from the spheres of architecture, design and graphics. The contributors - who include Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers, Sir Terence Conran, Bethan Gray, Tom Dixon, Paul Cocksedge and Ab Rogers - have each created their own interpretation of either Kenneth Grange’s 'Type75 Mini' desk lamp for Anglepoise, or Ercol's 'Stacking Chair', in a striking tribute to a worthy cause.
Curated by British designer Anthony Dickens, ‘A Child’s Dream’ is an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Edward Louis Reid, Designjunction director Deborah Spencer’s three-month-old nephew who tragically passed away earlier this year. Samuel Wilkinson used the technique of pointillism for his interpretation of the Anglepoise lamp, decorating the lamp with thousands of dots that graduate from a green base up to a black stem
Wilkinson also reinterpreted Ercol's chair as a representation of a 'magic, fabled animal - each leg of the chair has a foot from a different creature painted in a red rubbery finis
Paul Cocksedge drew inspiration from the lamp's anthropomorphic qualities, configuring his pieces to light up only when the shades touch
Explains Benjamin Hubert of his creation: 'The Anglepoise is covered in random flicked ink from Posta markers. As a designer you are often trying to avoid excess ink when sketching - the lamp celebrates this accidental effect'
A detail of Hubert's Anglepoise lamp
Ab Rogers imagined a bold, blue rocking chair for Ercol
Wallpaper's Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers opted for a dreamy, ethereal feel for his Anglepoise lamp by spraying the inside of the lampshade in a pale sky-blue
He also made a mask of the lamp's elegantly design ventilation holes before spraying through it, which he explains, 'made a beautiful impression on the lamp's base - just as Edward made a beautiful, lasting impression during his short stay here'
Tom Dixon encased Ercol's 'Stacking Chair' in copper
A detail of Dixon's customised Ercol chair
Bethan Gray's Angelpoise lamp is adorned in geometric gold bands to celebrate the affinity that babies have with glossy, reflective surfaces
Sir Terence Conran's lamp features a playful doodle
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