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Design | 20 Sep 2010
London Design Festival Blog

London Design Festival Blog

Tom Dixon gives us a personal tour of his new shop and all the rest at Portobello Dock. Pictured here with his dog Molly, Simon Hasan, Rossana Orlandi.

The impressive exterior of the Dock, located in West London

The copper-plated bike, a collaboration between Tom Dixon and Brompton Bikes, is currently a prototype but awaiting production

Brompton Bike engineers assemble the bikes on site

One of two limited edition copper bike helmets by Tom Dixon and Les Ateliers Ruby

Danish tile company Made a Mano are among the international brands selected by Dixon to show at the Dock

Flash Factory staff hard at work constructing Tom Dixon Etch lights

A charcoal house installation by Sort Of Coal stands next to Tom Dixon’s Peg coat stand, and his suitably matching personal bike

Sort of Coal takes the ancient Japanese tradition of using White Charcoal to purify water, air and the body - so by enriching daily life

Kuro Cubes by Sort Of Coal, used for deodorizing your fridge

The Japanese charcoal used for purifying water

The hugely popular Dock kitchen

The kitchen at the Dock

Paul Cocksedge’s Size + Matter is installed

Conceived as an oversized coin that has ’fallen to the Earth from a giant’s palm’, ’Drop’ is magnetised to encourage passers by to affix their spare change to it

Eventually it will become copperised by coins donated by the public, and when its short residency is up, the money will go to Bernardos

The Size + Matter installation will be in place until 17th October

An installation at Tracey Neuls on Marylebone Lane by the shoe designer, in conjunction with stylist (and Wallpaper* contributor) Nicola Yeomans. The playful, graphic piece of art draws on the pair’s childhood memories

Okay Studio and friends
Jorres van Ast’s collection is called ‘The Wood Connection’ - and is a series of prototypes exploring new ways of joining wood. The pieces are all easily assembled with snap-to fittings
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Roger Arquer’s ‘Sputnik’, ‘Stack’ and ‘Cendrillo’ stools – short term seats ideal for brief visits. Each one explores a different aspect of materials, process and structure.
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

More of Arquer’s stools
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Mathias Hahn’s chunky joinery celebrates the pleasure of simple, beautifully made, homely design
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Every visitor leaves a mark on Ed Swan’s Mark Maker table, the top of which is made up of fifty different coloured layers of paint. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to use it, and at the end of the week a clear layer of laquer will be applied, sealing the scars from the show.

Tomas Alonso’s ‘A side tables’ are a collection of tables in ash, powder coated steel and plywood that can be folded flat in seconds – handy for contemporary nomads inhabiting small spaces in big cities.
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Pick A Colour show, at Modus.

36 PLC chairs designed by Pearson Lloyd have been upholstered in Divinia fabric by Kvadrat. Each chair is to be auctioned off through sealed bids.

Photograph by Katrin Greiling

 

Smashing through the table, from ceiling to floor, is the latest collection by Neuls

The V&A is this year acting as the ‘gateway to the festival’. The entrance on Exhibition Road, designed by Retrouvius, is the main information point for visitors and press alike.

Our very own editor at large Suzanne Trocmé has curated the Spaces in the Sackler Centre, which hosts an extensive programme of seminars, talks and special events.

The grand marble staircase leading to the Architectural galleries has been transformed by artist, designer and W* favourite Stuart Haygarth. Working with framing company John Jones, he has raided their bespoke frame mouldings to create this colourful cascade installation

Another Country’s Contemporary Craft Furniture exhibition at Oliver Spencer on Lambs Conduit Street

The benches and stools make up Series One - Another Country’s first furniture collection

Tableware at the ’Midwinter Modernist: the iconic designs of Jessie Tait’ exhibition at Bulthaup Clerkenwell

Jessie Tait died in January, leaving behind a rich legacy of tableware, including the Midwinter Pottery collection - a midcentury classic

Her 1950s designs included organic shapes and hand-painted spot, stripe and textured patterns

A selection of designs by Jessie Tait

Established & Sons have taken up residence at The Wenlock Arms, acting as the pub’s landlords for one week only and renaming it ’The Established & Sons’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

For their stint as pub landlords, they have renamed it ’The Established & Sons’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Inside the pub on Wenlock Road is a selection of the brand’s furniture
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The ’Pole Light’ by Paul Cocksedge lights up the bar
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Inside the Established & Sons
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

A local prepares to perch on a ’Heidi Stool’ by Sebastien Wrong for Established & Sons
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The packed pop-up Finnish restaurant, Hel Yes, also on Wenlock Road
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Kvadrat has just unveiled Cristian Zuzunaga’s new curtain collection, which consists of three designs - Skyline, Cityscape and Dawn - inspired by his experiences of cities such as Shanghai, New York and Tokyo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The collection also features modernist influences from designers, such as Saul Bass
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The new collection at Kvadrat
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Darkroom, our favourite new concept store in Lambs Conduit Street, has just launched its new collection of monochrome interior and fashion accessories
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The store’s festival exhibition is dedicated to its London-based designers
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

These are presented alongside other Darkroom-designed products
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Ceramics at Darkroom
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

African-inspired jewellery and wallhangings at Darkroom
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

An amorphous ceramic candleholder at Darkroom
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Norwegian Prototypes exhibition features beautiful designs, including wall boxes by Amy Hunting and side storage by Thomas Jenkins
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The one prerequisite of the show was that all designs on show must fit into a suitcase
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

A pair of lamps by Andreas Engesvik
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Daniel Rybakken has produced an infinity effect mirror for the show
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Each of 2009’s exhibitors were invited back and asked to select one other designer to exhibit. The choice few include Sara Polmar, Tom Jenkins and Frost Produkt
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The rawness of the work challenges the traditional perception that Norwegian design is characterised by clean and functional lines
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Some pieces on show are complete while others are works-in-progress. Visitors can also expect to see short films by Tomas Leach in collaboration with ’Little Scraps of Paper’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Tomoko Azumi’s ’Objective’ show at Rocket Gallery marks the designer’s first gallery exhibition of her furniture
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

’Objective’ shows a collection of Azumi’s work from 1995 to the present

Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Tomoko Azumi has deliberately worked with medium-scale furniture manufacturers who share her vision of function and quality
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

James Plumb’s ’The One Room Hotel’ at the back of the new Hostem store they designed is - like the pair - nothing but charming
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Now the duo’s temporary ’The One Room Hotel’ allows guests to spend the night in an intimate and transient installation
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The public can book a night’s stay if they make their case well enough via Hostem’s or the artists’ website
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

’The One Room Hotel’ elevates the standard hotel experience to that of a ’beautiful incident’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

James Plumb specialises in salvaging forgotten treasures and resurrecting them in beautiful and elegant ways
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Hannah Plumb and James Russell smile for the cameras at the opening of ’The One Room Hotel’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The ’Heretic’ display is part of Neville Brody’s Anti Design Festival, where objects and posters are created ad hoc and on the spot
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Anti-Design Festival aims to shift focus away from commerciality and toward providing ’brain food.’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Londonewcastle Project is the main venue for the Anti-Design Festival and is a place for unhindered exploration
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Works in progress at The Anti-Design Festival
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Anti-Design Festival constantly shifts and changes as new work is added, created and debated over the week
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The non-elitist programme is entirely open to submissions from all
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Neville Brody, Anti Design Festival founder, says of the festival that it’s ’anti-design, anti-art, anti-product, anti-fashion.’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Brody’s alternative festival comes in response to what he considers a 25-year ’cultural deep freeze’
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Inside the pop-up Sé Showroom in the Brompton Design District, which is showing ’Sé Collection II’ by Jaime Hayón

’Flute’ table by Jaime Hayón

’Timepiece’ tables, inspired by egg-timers, by Jaime Hayón

’Beetley’ chairs by Jaime Hayón, which as their name suggests, are inspired by beetles

’Arpa’ chair by Jaime Hayón

Studio Toogood launches ’Assemblage 1’, its first ever collection of objects, which are inspired by rural life. Shown here is the ’Spade Trestle Table’

’Silo Cabinet’ by Studio Toogood

’Spade Chair’ by Studio Toogood

100% Design: 100% Norway
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

100% Design: Christoffer Angell’s coat pegs at 100% Norway

100% Design: Nina Tolstrup’s Mobile Outdoor Kitchen, shown at part of TEN a collective of ten designers who share a similar approach to design and who for the last four years have been presenting different projects around the theme of sustainability in design.

100% Design: The Decorators - a London-based design collective that build experiences, generate unexpected encounters and test conventions - set up shop at 100%

100% Design: Vases by Jakub Berdych of Qubus Desgin Studio

101% Designers in Brussels show their wares at Earls Court

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100% Design: Daniel and Emma (D.E) from Adelaide Australia presented a very cute collection of stationary

The Tramshed: Furniture by Leif.designpark for De La Espada
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Tramshed: Furniture by Another Country
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

ACNE presents it’s foray into furniture at the Liberty store

ACNE presents it’s foray into furniture at the Liberty store

100% Design: Chair by Ernest Race, re-issued for 2010

100% Design: Chairs at Pottinger+Cole

100% Design: Glass and wood cabinet at Channels

100% Design: Creative Trust’s cardboard house

David Weatherhead, showing in the Future Design Convention in Brompton Design District

100% Design: Edward Robinson’s stand

100% Design: Edward Robinson’s stand

100% Design: Elegance Cutlery by Thomas Stanley

100% Design: Stools by Folklore

100% Design: Happy Happy by Stephen Johnson

100% Design: Pontus desk by Russel Pinch

100% Design: Lights by newcomer James Shaw

100% Design: Rocker by Ernest Race, re-issued this year

100% Design: Lights by Jeongwon Ji

100% Design: Glass tape by 601 Bisang at Korea Design stand

100% Design: wallpaper with the jumper that inspired the pattern by Chae Young Kim

100% Design: side table by Grimm

100% Design: Simple Idea clocks by Lee Junkyo at Korea Design stand

100% Design: stairs by Tintab Design

Cases by Harri Koskinen at Skandium, part of the shops first own collection

The Skyroom, a new temporary roof terrace for the Architecture Foundation on Tooley Street, was commissioned and funded by the landlord of Magdalen House, Lake Estates. The idea, realized in steel with copper mesh facades and larch flooring by David Kohn Architects, demonstrates how with a little imagination London’s neglected roofscapes can provide a rich new landscape for the city’s inhabitants. It also provides a nice social meeting place where the Architecture Foundation can meet and get to know its neighbouring tenants in the building, says Sarah Ichioka, the organisation’s director.

 

100% Norway: ’Skandia’ chairs by Hans Brattrud

100% Design: ’Polymer’ clocks and ’Ant’ lamps by Pottinger+Cole

100% Design: Lighting by Secto Design for Sigmar

’Pompadour’ chair, ’Wings’ table and ’Baroccabilly’ carpet, by Nigel Coates, on show at his studio in South Kensington

A drawing by Coates of the world of Baroccabilly - the character behind his new collection, which the designers describes as a ’rebel outsider’

The Tramshed: ’Shell’ chair by VW+BS for Decode London

The Tramshed: Benchmark transported part of its Kintbury workshop to the Tramshed during the festival, making furniture in situ

The Tramshed: Hides hang from the rafters in Benchmark’s temporary workshop

The Tramshed: ’Day bed one’ by Another Country

The Tramshed: ’Together’ table and stools by Studio Ilse for De La Espada

The Tramshed: Chair and chest by Dick van Hoff for De La Espada

’Copper and walnut desk’ by Paul Kelly at ’In Every Dream Home’ - a collaboration between Fendi and Gallery Fumi, shown at the latter

Studio Glithero’s collection shows the connection between maker, hand, tool, material and product. On the wall are some of the tools used to create the pieces

’Rail console’ by Studio Glithero at Gallery Fumi

Leather and wood desk by Tortie Hoare at Tent London

Wooden boards by All Lovely Stuff at SCP

Bottles by All Lovely Stuff

Steel chair by Nendo at ’Thin Black Lines’ at the Saatchi Gallery
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel racks by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel hanger rack by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel table by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel dishes/bottles by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel bowls by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Steel lamps by Nendo
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The Nendo installation at Thin Black Lines at the Saatchi Gallery
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The exhibition runs until 31st October
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Architect David Kohn
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

BarberOsgerby threw open the doors of their studio during the festival

Displayed around the space were recent furniture and lighting launches

Some of the products were available to buy

Recent products by BarberOsgerby, inside their studio on Charlotte Road

Vitsoe honours the 50th anniversary of its ’606 Universal Shelving System’ by Dieter Rams, with an exhibition showing how the system has evolved since the year 1960
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

Dieter Rams shows us around
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

With a Beatles soundtrack and some carefully chosen accessories the show demonstrates the enduring nature of this minimalist design, which is even more popular today than it was in its year of launch
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

The exhibition at the Vistoe showroom in Duke Street is supported by the Geffrye Museum
Photograph by Katrin Greiling

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