One of my personal highlights from this year’s London Design Festival was this homely presentation by the Crafts Council of Ireland showcasing the work of over 30 crafters in a former garage in Shoreditch.
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Production shot from Machines for Living showing (left to right) India Banks, Nicole Pschetz, Frode Gjerløw and David Ralfe: photo by Christina Hardinge
The latest production at Camberwell’s Blue Elephant Theatre by emerging theatre company Let Slip takes its name and premise from a book by Swiss architect Le Corbusier, who believed that architecture could contribute to the physical and mental wellbeing of its inhabitants. However, as the play’s protagonists discover, designing an urban Utopia isn’t straightforward.
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Here are some of my photos of the 11th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The pavilion is Zumthor’s first completed building in the UK and features a specially designed garden by Piet Oudolf.
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Iris Hantverk
Identifying trends at a show like Pulse is often a tricky task as the wares on display tend not to have had a great deal of design input. This year saw a few retailers focusing on utilitarian products that combine a function-led aesthetic simplicity with materials that seem determined by austere conditions and a nostalgic sensibility.
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The House of Detention - a new venue at Clerkenwell Design Week
The second edition of Clerkenwell Design Week featured an impressive line up of events, workshops and presentations as well as a diverse array of products on show at local stores and showrooms and at the two main sites, including a new venue housed in a former prison.
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This biannual furniture fair moved from Dulwich to the home of cricket for its summer edition and filled the Nursery Pavilion with covetable design classics.
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Presentation by Pinch at Spazio Botta
This year, Milan welcomed visitors to the Internazionale Salone del Mobile for the 50th time and, as ever, there was a spectacular selection of events to enjoy around the city’s streets, courtyards and showrooms. With designers seemingly responding to the rather more reserved recent societal attitude to consumption there was a refreshing lack of flamboyance and a more appropriate focus on invention, quality and longevity. What follows is an edited roundup of some of my favourites from the week.
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Fernando and Humberto Campana at flooring specialists Bolon
This year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair was a relatively tame affair with a distinct lack of daring new products on show. The majority of exhibitors chose to present updates or variations of existing ranges although some of the big Scandinavian brands did launch new collections on the most important date in their calendar.
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Frieze is London’s biggest art fair; a vast, industrial scale space filled with over £200 million pounds worth of art and thousands of visitors. The sensory overload begins as soon as you enter and there’s little let up as you negotiate the dozens of stands operated by high end galleries.
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Alexander Calder and Ron Arad
This presentation of works by some of the world’s best known artists was intended more as a showcase for the incredible property in which it took place than for the art itself. The eight residences in this newly redeveloped Regency terrace happen to be on the market at the moment and, with the Frieze Art Fair taking place a stone’s throw away in Regent’s Park, this was a perfect opportunity to entice wealthy collectors to view a potential home or pied-à-terre.
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