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London Design Festival 2011: British designers Faudet-Harrison have furnished an east London shoe shop for footwear designer Tracey Neuls.

Recycled objects were combined with new materials to create the furniture, which includes a chest of shoebox-drawers mounted on a vintage footstool.

The shop opened this month to coincide with the London Design Festival – see more stories about the festival here.

Here’s some more text from Tracey Neuls and Faudet-Harrison:

Tracey Neuls opens new shop for Design Week!

Pioneering and of a single mind, Tracey Neuls chooses her shop where there is great spirit and individuality not unlike her original footwear. Building on the success of her West London Marylebone shop, she embarks on her second space – Eastside!

The eclectic mix of shops found on her flagship Marylebone Lane spans from elderly gentlemen specialising and selling buttons to a bespoke Sausage maker – all a stroll from Bond St. It is this juxtaposition that can also be seen on Redchurch St. just minutes from Liverpool Street Station. Shunning homogenous high street formula, boutiques mingle with small galleries, cafes and residential dwellings. Drawing upon inspiration from the carefully selected ‘neighbourhoods’ – Tracey’s shoes are about the individual wearer and have no boundaries as to age or fashion preference setting her designs apart.

For London Design Week, this idea of ‘community’ will be pushed from carboot to closet distilling a database of interesting ‘every day’ objects. Faudet-Harrison have been invited to alter, amalgamate and redesign these objects in a way that they could only do. Previous design alterations are so clever and effortless; for example, a matchbox where one side of the slide drawer is empty, serving as a place to put the spent matches. This idea is placed in the same genre as sticky notes where it begs the question as to why it hadn’t been done before?

With ease and wit these two different design practices come together for this years Design Week collaboration.

Faudet-Harrison said: “the Furniture and products produced are centred around rituals of shoes and getting ready, all have an element of altered and restored found object married with new materials giving each piece a revised function.”

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My London by Nendo for Established & Sons	Textile Field by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec	Assemblage 3by Faye Toogood

London Design Festival 2011: designjunction opens tomorrow at 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA as part of the London Design Festival.

Top: Channels: Launch New Furniture Collection Channels will launch a new and exciting furniture collection by Samuel Chan, including a new range of tables, chairs and lighting. The pieces express Channels’ perennial emphasis on enduring design and contemporary woodcraft, featuring materials such as metal, leather and fabric.

Above: Chorus launches new Pengelly chair Theo. Theo by Simon Pengelly for Chorus takes advantage of the inherent characteristics of ply forming technology and is an elegant wooden stacking chair. (THEO has successfully satisfied BS EN level 2, strength, durability and safety requirements for non-domestic seating). Available with either natural oak or beech side frames, with or without arms, with the option of seats and backs to match or can be lacquered or stained to any RAL colour. A fabric upholstered seat pad option is also available.

36 brands will exhibit collections under the creative direction of Michael Sodeau, including our own Dezeen Watch Store pop-up.

Pinch: Latest Collection Revealed. Award-winning Pinch Design, a partnership between Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon will showcase their latest collection at designjunction including the new Holland Park School chair made by Ercol – A solid wood stacking classroom chair available with an upholstered seat and armchair version. Also on display will be Pinch’s new extending Harper table, the Imo bar stools, Imo folding stools, Clyde side tables, the Iona Cheval mirror and the Brody high back armchair.

designjunction takes place from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. Read more about the event in our earlier story.

Modus: Leading British Manufacturers. Modus will present work from their new collection previewed in Milan, alongside the launch of a new sofa by French designer Christophe Pillet. Pieces from their cadre of renowned designers will include: Noughts & Crosses stools by British designer Michael Sodeau as well as Palais, a simple profiled sofa. The versatile Gecko table collection by Scandinavian design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune and the Drew table range by young British designer Kirsty Whyte. UK design duo PearsonLloyd will also extend their existing PLC collection with the launch of a new bar stool and sofa system, Part.

You can download a copy of Junction magazine here.

Another Country: Contemporary Craftsmanship. Building on the success of their Series One collection, Another Country presents Series Two: a handsome collection of beautifully crafted furniture made from different woods. The range includes a dining table, chair, bench, oval coffee table, sideboard and storage boxes, all hand-made in their Dorset workshop. Another Country will also introduce a charming desktop accessories range consisting of a desk clock, penholder, tape dispenser and eraser pot designed by Simon Donald alongside a new pottery collection by Ian McIntyre.

Here are some highlights, with captions provided by designjunction.

Anglepoise: Iconic lighting design. Working with their Design Director, Kenneth Grange, Anglepoise has developed a new LED light module that represents a significant investment and long-term commitment to their customers. The new light source will be presented in two new products, the funType75TM Mini, available in a range of six exciting colours, and the bold Type75TM Maxi, floor standing lamp. Anglepoise will also be displaying a wall-mounted version of the highly popular Giant 1227

Beau McClellan: Debut Lighting Collection Revealed. Pioneering brand Beau McClellan Design will debut their stunning collection of high-end lighting products at designjunction, including the award winning Bomac and Icicle ranges. Also featuring as part of the display will be an innovative large-scale chandelier that reacts to movement and sound. Leading Italian brand Poltrona Frau will collaborate with Beau McClellan to complement the display with their latest cutting-edge furniture pieces previewed in Milan earlier this year.


Hitch Mylius: British Legends. Celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, British ambassador for home-grown manufacturing, Hitch Mylius will present the new hm63 collection by Nigel Coates. These low, pebble-like units can be laid out in structured patterns, used individually or scattered throughout a space to provide organic seating arrangements. This piece will feature alongside a selection of successful existing ranges including; the bestselling hm46 sofa range, as well as additions to the popular hm86 chair by Simon Pengelly and Matthias Demackers’ dynamic hm58 and hm59 desk and lounge chair collections.

Resident: First Ever UK Showcase. Resident, a new contemporary furniture and lighting company from New Zealand will present their first collection in the UK at designjunction. Established in 2011 by Simon James and Scott Bridgens, Resident is committed to developing progressive and innovative products that add value to both Commercial and Residential spaces. This first showcase will feature products from Auckland based Jamie McLellan, Jason Whiteley who is based in London and other acclaimed Resident designers from New Zealand and around the world.

Swedese: Timeless Furniture Made by Skilled Craftsmen. Leading Swedish furniture manufacturer Swedese will present work from their roster of international designers. On display will be work from Claesson Koivisto Rune, Thomas Bernstrand, Lime Studio, Isaac Chen, Marina Bautier, Michael Young, and Naoto Fukasawa. Key pieces in the showcase will include: the Nova sofa and arm- chair, on display for the first time in the UK; Isaac Chen’s Riddle, a magic newspaper hanger; Marina Bautier’s Cruiser folding stool in laminated oak veneer with either fabric or leather upholstery; Michael Young’s Tree coat stand; Michaël Bihain’s Libri bookshelf, and Staffan Holm’s Spin stool, a stackable design available in three colous.

Tokyobike: Explore London’s creative districts with Japan’s super cool bicycle company. Japan’s super cool bicycle company, Tokyobike is set to make tracks this September with a series of guided tours across London, offering design enthusiasts the chance to try out these effortlessly stylish bikes. The tours will set off and finish at designjunction each day in Holborn, and will be led by leading design critics. The tours will take riders on a 3 hour journey to mystery design destinations across the capital and will stop off for lunch at designjunction’s pop- up café.

22 – 25 September 2011
Victoria House Basement, 37 – 63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA

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More about designjunction	Furniture by Resident at designjunction	More about London Design Festival

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about the pieces that French designer Philippe Nigro has created for the brand. Watch the movie »

Competition: we’ve teamed up with British designer Tom Dixon to give away five copies of his new book, entitled Extremism, to coincide with Multiplex at the Dock as part of the London Design Festival.

The book is divided into seven chapters, each devoted to an extreme in design from extremely heavy objects to extremely technical pieces to extremely simple ones.

Each chapter is printed with a different combination of paper and ink, appropriate to its subject matter.

To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Extremism” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.

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Competition closes 18 October 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

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In addition, a limited number of copies will be given out at The Dock each day this week.

Here are some more details from Tom Dixon:

Extremism is a new book published by Tom Dixon in collaboration with global paper manufacturer UPM. In a battle against compromise and the bland, the book explores the positive impact Extremist thinking can have on design.

Divided into 7 image-led chapters, the book covers a range of interpretations from Extreme Weight and Extreme Technology to Extreme Simplicity and Extreme.

Each chapter is printed on specifically chosen UPM paper with specially selected ink relating to the contents of each theme. The book discusses inspiration and manufacturing processes behind new products including the Bulb and Etch lights.

A limited number of the books will be given away each day at The Dock as part of London Design Festival 19 – 25 September. Tom Dixon will be launching 3 new products as part of the festival: Void Mini (a pendant light referencing the Olympic medals.) White Beat (a white take on the iconic Beat shade made of hand beaten brass) and Etch Light ( a meter wide acid etched brass shade fitted with tiny LEDs ). Other exhibitors at The Dock include Moooi, Aston Martin, Max Frommeld and Print Club London.

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London Design Festival 2011: architect David Chipperfield has installed two metallic glass pavilions outside the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the London Design Festival

Copper-coated fabric mesh is sandwiched between vertical glass panels to create the bronze-coloured walls of one pavilion.

The walls of second pavilion are silver in colour, as they encase the same mesh coated in aluminium.

The project was delivered in collaboration with engineers Arup.

You can see all our stories about David Chipperfield here, and all our stories about the London Design Festival here.

Here are some more details from the London Design Festival:

Size + Matter is one of the London Design Festival’s cornerstones, pairing a leading designer or architect with a material or manufacturing process. We ask them to explore the dynamic between their own creativity and the material or process. As a result, since 2007, three million people have experienced this series of remarkable explorations – by David Adjaye, Shigeru Ban, Paul Cocksedge, Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete and Marc Newson – at the Southbank Centre.

This year they are joined by one of the UK’s most important architecture practices, David Chipperfield Architects, who teamed up with structural engineers and glass specialists from Arup to create a composition using Sefar Architecture Vision fabric. The metal-coated fabric mesh, black on one side and metallic on the other, is layered between two sheets of glass and gives the installation’s panels both translucent and reflective qualities.

David Chipperfield Architects has created a sculptural dialogue between two identical forms, different only in their orientation and aluminium and copper finishes. Each form consists of a series of unframed laminated glass panels with corresponding coloured stainless steel connections. Two Lines oscillates between a sculptural relationship of two orthogonal forms and a regular series of simple vertical elements. The interlayer of 50% mesh gives a stronger materiality to the glass, appearing at times monolithic and dynamically translucent, changing over the course of a day. As a result, the installation creates a variety of different experiences as visitors move within and around it.

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Timber Wave by AL_A and Arup	Perspectives by John Pawson	Textile Field by Ronan& Erwan Bouroullec