London Design Festival

The evolution of toy design in the Czech Republic, from vintage to contemporary

By Clare Dowdy • Last updated 14 October 22

Designer drapes: Doshi Levien launches Kvadrat curtain range and installation at LDF

By Sujata Burman • Last updated 14 October 22

Peek show: an exclusive look at Dimore Studio’s preparatory collages for its London show debut

By Emma O'Kelly • Last updated 14 October 22

100% Norway's latest exhibition brings Scandinavian design to a wider audience

By Ali Morris • Last updated 14 October 22

Kris Ruhs: Landing on Earth exhibition at The Wapping Project, London

By Ellen Himelfarb • Last updated 14 October 22

Holloway Li’s debut furniture collection is like colourful candy

Holloway Li presents the ‘T4’ collection of furniture, created in collaboration with Turkish manufacturer Uma and inspired by the designers’ 1990s childhood

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 14 October 22

Tom Dixon marks his studio's 20 years with a show of design experiments

Mushroom, cork, steel coral and more: Tom Dixon showcases an overview of his design experiments as he celebrates his practice's 20 years

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 13 October 22

Omer Arbel’s live glass-blowing unites sculpture and experimentation at the V&A

Canadian creative Omer Arbel’s design practice is a collision of worlds, uniting sculpture, design, invention and – in his show ‘Material Experiments’ at the V&A for London Design Festival 2022 – performance

By Martha Elliott • Last updated 13 October 22

‘Finding quality through the act of making’: Pearson Lloyd celebrates 25 years of design

Pearson Lloyd’s show ‘Change Making’ reflects on past designs from its archives, showcasing the influences on and evolution of the studio, from furniture design to the NHS

By Martha Elliott • Last updated 13 October 22

Design titans Terence Conran, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster commission their wish list for the London Design Festival 2014

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 13 October 22

Zaha Hadid’s 'Crest' installation to transform the V&A’s garden during the London Design Festival

By Katrina Israel • Last updated 12 October 22

Design luminaries discuss materials and circularity at London Design Festival 2020

Paola Antonelli, Neri Oxman, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Ivy Ross will share their insights into regenerative materials in an online panel discussion on Tuesday 15 September, moderated by Wallpaper* Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas. Tickets are free, pre-register below to secure your place.

By TF Chan • Last updated 11 October 22

'Vera Chapter 2' exhibition at London Design Festival

By Ellen Himelfarb • Last updated 11 October 22

Prints by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Pierre Charpin for The Wrong Shop

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 11 October 22

Alpine lines: rare Otl Aicher prints reveal a graphic designer ahead of his time

By Elly Parsons • Last updated 10 October 22

London Design Festival 2021: explore the city through design

London Design Festival 2021 (until 26 September) features a rich programme of events and installations across the city, with projects including a mixed reality installation at the V&A by Sou Fujimoto, a sculpture celebrating beehives by Arthur Mamou-Mani, and a central London streetscape by Yinka Ilori. Wallpaper's guide to specially curated exhibitions and what's on in each Design District across London

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 9 October 22

Michael Anastassiades’ public drinking fountains address plastic pollution during London Design Festival

By Ali Morris • Last updated 9 October 22

Enjoy a virtual coffee in this virtual gallery

For London Design Festival 2021, design studio Giles Miller Studio and cult London coffee brand Grind are collaborating on a new kind of virtual space

By Mary Cleary • Last updated 7 October 22

Creative disciplines collide in this London townhouse

‘Design House’ at 14 Cavendish is a pop-up exhibition featuring furniture, ceramics, lighting and more in the raw spaces of a Palladian London townhouse

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 7 October 22

SCP and Ishinomaki Laboratory unveil wooden furniture designed to minimise waste

Merging British and Japanese design and craft sensibilities, the collection features work by 12 contemporary designers including chairs, tables, benches and stools

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 7 October 22

London Design Festival 2022: design highlights from across the city

London Design Festival 2022 brought us a life-sized media platform, public seating by Sabine Marcelis, and exhibitions across the city’s districts

By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated 6 October 22

Sculpting scent: Zuza Mengham creates objects inspired by Laboratory Perfumes

By Angela Gokani Brasier • Last updated 30 September 22

Dan Tobin Smith takes visitors on an immersive journey inside gemstones

For London Design Festival, the photographer, together with The Experience Machine and Gemfields, creates an animation of gemstone inclusions inside Collins Music Hall

By Tom Seymour • Last updated 28 September 22

Pattern power

Patternity's first book envisions ‘A New Way of Seeing’

By Jessica Klingelfuss • Last updated 28 September 22