Design Festival – Holiday Home Lets Blog

The London Design Festival comprises of 9 days of design events across the capital, showcasing the design and innovation of the world class creative community in the UK, with over 280 events across 25 design disciplines reflecting the breadth and width of design across London.

The London Design Festival included many Landmark Projects that gave many of the world’s most notable designers and architects the opportunity to produce work for many of London’s most familiar public spaces and bring design to a much wider audience. Trafalgar Square, the Southbank Centre, Covent Garden, St Paul’s Cathedral and the V&A that quite literally brought design out onto the street to celebrate hosting London Design Festival events with an ambitious Timber Wave sculpture that spiralled out from the entrance.

Blown Glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly in the Rotunda entrance of the V&A museum

3D Printed Bust of Lady Belhaven with remarkable re-imagined tra la la hat by Miliner Stephen Jones at the V&A

One of the leading design and architecture events taking place during the London Design Festival was 100% Design London in the great Hall of Earls Court that brought together design, interiors, surfaces, materials and futures for professionals with a taste taste for new sources of innnovative design, furniture, lighting, textiles, fabrics and interior fixtures and fittings from around the world.

Rhino Chair at 100% Design

Rhino Chair at 100% Design London. Part of a family of Animal Chairs that includes an I am the Walrus chair.

Bedroom furnishings and fittings by Fertini with jewel encrusted chair; sadly not real, at 100% design

Corita Rose colorful fabrics

Corita Rose vivid fabrics with strong imagery for upholstery and furnishings at 100% Design London

Blue sofa with buttons with flamingo cushion on French stand at 100% Design Blue sofa with buttons and flowery flamingo cushion on French stand at 100% Design

Wooden and plastic surface designs

Wooden floor surface by Mafi. Plastic lenticular surface design by Style Conception at 100% Design

Wooden Desk

Sculpted wooden desk as seen at 100% Design

Wolf Sub Zero Pickup Truck at 100% Design — Wolf cookers and Sub Zero refrigeration pickup truck with old style livery at 100% Design

Triangle of London Design Festival events centred around the old Market in Spitalfield brought us to Origin Contemporary Craft Fair, Tent London and The Tramshed that became a good showcase for work by De La Espada, However, we first visited Designers Block in Clerkenwell.

Mime Artists at Designers Block — Performance artists with Mama light by Moon Jung Kim at Designers Block

Helga Matos Weaving at Designers-Block — Helga Matos Weaving display with performance artists weaving around designs at Designers-Block

Minsung Lee on her bench at Designers Block at LDF — Minsung Lee from London Met University on her back to back bench at Designers Block Opening Event

Matchstick Chair at Designers Block — Matchstick Chair by Korean graduate at Designers Block, if you want one there may be a 3 month waiting list!

Chair Designs at Tramshed during the London Design Festival — Coracle Chair Design by Benjamin Hubert and Flower Cup chair presented by De La Espada at Tramshed during the LDF

Tent London situated in an old Brewery presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the latest in contemporary interior products and cutting edge design allowing you to feel the pulse and see some of the latest trends in furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories.

Anthony Hartley multi coloured chair — Mr Smith a multi-coloured laminated beechwood chair by UK furniture designer and cabinetmaker Anthony Hartley.

Anthony Hartley a Yorkshire based cabinet maker and furniture designer has drawn on all his experience and education in contemporay furniture to create Mr Smith a multi-coloured beechwood laminate chair with a high gloss acrylic finish. Hartley makes each piece by hand from original drawings to finished product so each chair has a unique DNA or customized colour sequence to create a chair inspired by the iconic Paul Smith stripes.

Muffin Pouffe by Matteo Bianchi — Muffin Pouffe handmade from the finest materials by Matteo Bianchi with a choice of ingredients and fillings

Bike on Bookshelf at Tent. Now where is it that you said you left your bike?

Boeme Design at Tent London — Boeme Sofa at Tent London. Made an ideal spot to relax with a glass of wine and discuss fine fabrics with designer

Boeme design, furnishings and fabrics at Tent — Boeme design and fine art fabrics at Tent London

Calm textile sculpture by Anna Glasbrook at Tent London

Origin: The Contemporary Craft Fair. Following Origin’s successful integration into the London Design Festival last year it returned to Old Spitalfields Market for the London Design Festival to offer an opportunity to see a diverse range of high quality, original crafts in one location. Showing a range of items from ceramics, furniture, metal work and glass to fashion accessories, jewellery and textiles.

Origin Craft Fair: 1. Jasmin Rowlandson 2. Melanie Bourget 3. BTU 4. Laura Thomas 5. Tsai Yoshikawa 6. Helen Noakes

And So To Bed Caribbean Style Interior Design, winner of best stand design at Decorex ’11

Nicky Haslam stand at Decorex — Nicky Haslam showcase bedroom at Decorex ’11

Lighting Design at Decorex — Our favourite lighting display by Serip at Decorex during the London Design Festival

Innovative sculpted table design by Splinter Works

Conran Shop and Bibendum Restaurant — Conran’s designer furniture store and Bibendum restaurant in the restored Michelin building in Chelsea. (Now Closed)

Conran's Bibendum at Michelin House — Conran’s Bibendum at Michelin House that also featured in the London Restaurant Festival

Conran-Shop — This must be the giant Egg box 6.0 angle poise lamp hatchery at the Conran shop in Chelsea

Jaguar at Clerkenwell Design Week — Jaguar C-X75 concept car design showcased at Clerkenwell Design Week

More information about Interior Design events may be available on the Indecus Interior Design Blog produced by DMC-Design.com

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