Dezeen promotion: Dezeen readers can enter a competition to win a set of architecture books published by Laurence King by completing one of three drawings from its new Archidoodle title.
Each page of the Archidoodle activity book contains an incomplete architecture-related drawing, which the reader-turned-artist has to finish off themselves. The user can either be as accurate as possible or as imaginative as they like with the designs.
Famous structures including the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal and a selection of the world’s tallest buildings all feature in the volume.
The publishers are giving away a copy of Archidoodle, plus 100 Years of Architectural Drawing and any other Laurence King title of the winners’ choice to five successful sketchers.
Readers can chose between creating a new top for the Sydney Opera House, redesigning the facade of London’s Buckingham Palace or coming up with their own version of The Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe.
To win the books, download one of the three PDF pages below:
Dezeen promotion: a collection of striated wooden bowls, vases and pots by German artist Christoph Finkel are currently on display at design brand Luminaire‘s exhibition space in Miami.
Christoph Finkel carved the Rillen Vessels from sections of tree trunks, in woods including oak, maple and birch.
He used vintage turning machines, which he rebuilt to fit his needs, and hand-carving tools to create the forms before sanding the pieces and leaving them to dry out.
First displayed in Milan last year, the products are now on display in the Luminaire Lab at 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida.
Recognising the intrinsic, natural qualities of wood, German artist Christoph Finkel pushes the limits of woodworking to create stunning, sculptural vessels. Experimenting with both machine and hand tools, Finkel reduces heavy, raw wood into perfectly shaped bowls and vessels. Viewing wood as a living material, the artist is interested in the history and natural characteristics of each piece and highlights these qualities as he creates his unique objects.
Born in Allgüa, Germany in 1971, Finkel grew up in a small village in the southern German Alps. His father, a third-generation wood tuner, introduced his son to the craft at his home studio. This passion continued as Finkel attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg where he began sculpting primarily in wood. His artistic endeavours lead him to develop a series of bowls, which was a new and exciting challenge for him. As an artist, he saw the potential for creating sculptural forms rather than traditional functional vessels.
Each bowl begins with the careful selection of wood from locally sourced trees including oak, maple and birch as well as fruit trees. Finkel first cuts the tree with his chainsaw to get a rough form. If necessary, the wood must be dried before he can begin to turn and carve the piece to shape. Using various vintage metal turning machines that the designer rebuilt to fit his needs, with several steps of hand carving using specially made steel and iron knives and wood turning tools, he achieves the desired surface. Before the bowls are finished, sanding with paper or a steel brush may also occur before the piece is dried for up to three months.
Luminaire spotted Finkel’s remarkable work during the 2012 Milan Fair where it was shown alongside Paola Lenti’s exhibition at the Chiostri dell’Umanitari. A number of these one-of-a-kind pieces will soon be offered at Luminaire’s showrooms.
Dezeen promotion: tables with surfaces balanced on angled supports by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will be on display at US design brand Luminaire‘s showroom during Design Miami in December.
Yoshioka’s Elements Collection of metal furniture references the growth of crystal structures and includes side tables, desks and dining tables.
Luminaire displayed the tables at their Chicago showroom earlier in the year and will also show them at the Luminaire Lab, 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida, for Design Miami taking place from 4 to 8 December.
Luminaire is excited to continue growing its relationship with Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. Working throughout many years with his genius we were not surprised when the Elements Collection was revealed at the Milan fair. We still view it as one of the highlights of the week. Yoshioka’s pieces are innovative in both design and engineering. The pieces are also congruous with the designer’s poetic aesthetic.
Continuing with our mission to have the newest and best pieces showcased in our showrooms, we were the first to bring the pieces to the US and have them displayed in our showrooms. Our first engagement was during NeoCon at Luminaire Chicago. The feedback and excitement generated from the collection left us inspired. We are continuing our commitment to good design by presenting the collection as part of Luminaire’s Art Basel/Design Miami in December at our Design District location, Luminaire Lab.
Dezeen promotion: furniture, product and spatial design entries are now being accepted for the Interieur Awards 2014.
Bar Maison. Main image: Black Bar
Held in conjunction with design event Biennale Interieur 2014 in Kortrijk, Belgium, the awards are presented in two categories.
BEBar
In the Object category, designers are asked to create a product that will improve daily life. One Grand Prize-winning design will receive €2500 and be exhibited alongside twenty other successful designs exhibited at the show.
BEBar
For the Spaces category, designs for one of the multiple bars to be installed at next year’s Biennale Interieur are requested. Five winners will each receive the €10,000 value of production budget to realise their designs at the event and will be able to team up with brands to augment this figure.
Box Bar. Photo by Rudy Beyens
The deadline for the Object category is 30 April 2014, while Spaces category entries must be submitted by 30 January 2014.
Vase&Leuchte by Miriam Aust. Photograph by Jan Köhler
For more details and to register your entries visit the Interieur Awards website. Images show previous Interieur Award winners and bars designed by Granstudio for Biennale Interieur 2012.
Here’s some more information from the organisers:
Call For Entries: Interieur Awards 2014
A rare chance for designers and architects to work with Biennale Interieur’s international design jury including (below, from left): Lina Kanafani, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance, Lowie Vermeersch, Matylda Krzykowski, Philippe Grohe, Rolf Hay, Francesca Sarti and Robert Klanten.
The Interieur Awards is an essential part of the Belgium-based Biennale Interieur programme, established in Kortrijk in 1968. This competition has achieved a strong international presence as a launch pad for young designers thanks to an influential internationally acclaimed jury and direct access to design manufacturers and producers.
Dot Porcelain Table by Miriam Liebana and Marcial Ahsayane
Many established designers started their careers at Biennale Interieur; it was at Interieur that a young Maarten Van Severen was spotted by Vitra, which in turn lead to a very beneficial collaboration for both. More recently, the Belgium duo, Muller Van Severen (one half Van Severen’s son, Hannes, and one half Hannes’s partner Fien Muller) were commissioned by Interieur to realise one of the Biennale’s Project Rooms – to international acclaim. Their work was shown as part of Designs of the Year 2013 at the Design Museum, London.
Object catergory winner 2012 by Zascho Petkow
The Biennale is far from a big, over-hyped design fair. It is known for high quality content, a balance of commercial and cultural happenings, a loyal, established industry following and a small, but perfectly formed nature, due in part to the easily accessible location in Belgium.
Acciaio series by Max Lipsey
Biennale Interieur takes place from 17 to 26 October 2014. The Interieur Awards 2014 calls designers, architects, artists and creatives to submit their entries in two distinct categories:
Objects
Create a new object that is relevant to our living environment and helps us improve daily life. Deadline: 30 April 2014
Spaces
Create a cutting-edge bar concept for the Biennale Interieur 2014. Deadline: 30 January 2014
The Jury will select winners anonymously.
Biennale Interieur exhibition 2012. Photo by Wouter Van Vaerenbergh
Of the four designs in the collection, two reference geometric circular patterns of the interwar period and 1960s.
Frame-Up Vanguard Square tiles
The other two have been adapted from traditional floral motifs found in the Emilia region of Italy during the late eighteenth century.
Frame-Up Emilia Flower tile
The square tiles measure 60 by 60 centimetres and can be fitted in either commercial or retail interiors. For more further details about the products visit the Refin website.
Keep reading for more information from Refin:
Frame-Up: a new porcelain tile collection from Refin
Italian porcelain tile manufacturer Refin has just launched its latest collections at 100% Design, London, and Cersaie, Bologna. Amongst the new ranges is Frame-Up, the latest collaboration between DesignTaleStudio, the company’s design, production and experimental laboratory, and Studio FM Milano.
Frame-Up Emilia Tradition tile
Frame-Up is an evolution of the Frame collection, a huge success for the brand and winner of a European Design Award 2013.
Frame-Up Emilia Tradition tile
The Frame-Up collection comprises four new decorative designs: two geometric patterns inspired by the artistic avant-garde circles of the period between the two world wars and the early Sixties – Vanguard Circle and Vanguard Square – and two reminiscent of the sinuous graphic patterns found in majolica tiles from the Emilia region of Italy around the late 18th century – Emilia Flower and Emilia Tradition.
Frame-Up Vanguard Circle tile
The fragmentation and deconstruction of the designs transform historical research into a new contemporary graphic language, creating a highly original, elegant product. Both designs can be used in a variety of ways to create either a regular, modular pattern, or a contemporary patchwork effect which is achieved by mixing pattern scales randomly.
Frame-Up Vanguard Square tile
Frame-Up is available in porcelain stoneware tiles measuring 60 by 60 centimetres, and represents a powerful creative tool for architects and interior designers aiming to innovate and enhance commercial projects, public areas and private residences.
For more information, contact UK specification consultant Massimo Sferrazza by telephone on 020 3603 1884 or 07503 778938, or by email at ukstudio@refin.it.
Dezeen promotion: designers Giulio Cappellini, Pauline Deltour and Ora Ito plus architects Ludovica and Roberto Palomba are confirmed to speak during trade fair Downtown Design Dubai, taking place from 29 October to 1 November.
Vases by Serralunga. Main image: furniture by Muuto
The guest speakers will lead design talks during the inaugural Downtown Design Dubai, at the foot of the world’s tallest building the Burj Khalifa.
Furniture by Cappellini
Furniture, lighting, accessories, flooring, textiles and new technologies will all be on show at a purpose-built venue on Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard in central Dubai.
Verreum wine and champagne set by Sebastian Bergne. Photo by Patrik Borecky-Tomas Brabec
Installations by design groups Temporary Museum of New Design, Nouvelle Vague and Craftsmanship at The Workshop will be created inside the venue.
Cykno bike
The four-day event will be free for trade visitors and industry professionals between 12pm and 8pm daily from 29 October to 1 November.
Navy chair by Emeco
Members of the public can also visit from 5pm to 8pm on 29-31 October and 12pm to 6pm on 1 November.
Coat stand by Discipline. Photo by Paul Barbera
Register to attend on the Downtown Design Dubai website or at the entrance desk of the venue. Images show products by confirmed exhibitors.
Keep reading for more information from the organisers:
Downtown Design announces exhibitors, speakers and special installations
» Carefully selected global interior design brands to showcase iconic and unique products. » Guest speakers include designers Giulio Cappellini, Pauline Deltour, Ora Ito and architects Ludovica+Roberto Palomba. » Special installations from the Temporary Museum, Nouvelle Vague and Craftsmanship at The Workshop.
Downtown Design, a new design trade fair in Dubai has announced its final list of 40 exhibitors for its first show, taking place from 29 October to 1 November. As well as individual brands, there will also be a stunning showcase of three special installations and a series of design talks hosted by high profile designers.
Cabinet by Chi Wing Lo
Downtown Design will for the first time in the Middle East bring together a selection of international design brands renowned for their quality products and focus on manufacturing craftsmanship. The inaugural show will be held at the custom-built location, ‘The Venue’, in Emaar’s Downtown Dubai, located on Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard. The event is geared specifically towards design industry professionals including architects, real estate developers and interior designers from across the Middle East and North Africa.
Confirmed participants include some of the world’s leading design brands exhibiting for the first time in the region. Featuring the very best in furniture, lighting, accessories, flooring, textiles and new technologies, Downtown Dubai’s exhibitors include: Atelier AK, Bolon, Cappellini, Carl Hansen, Cassina, Chi Wing Lo, De Castelli, De Vecchi Milano 1935, Dilmos Milano, Discipline, Emeco, Engeenius – Cykno, Evita Vonni Collections LTD, Fritz Hansen, Gaggenau, Gaia & Gino, Hossein Rezvani, Il Laboratorio dell’Imperfetto, Lamellux, Lisa Corti, Louis Poulsen, Muuto, Nouvelle Vague Volume 2, Pinetti, Poltrona Frau, Pouenat Ferronnier, Preciosa, Quadrature, Seletti, Serralunga, Temporary Museum for New Design, Theodore Alexander, USM, Verreum and Vitra. Al Khaznah Tannery from the UAE will also be making a surprise announcement during the fair.
Armchairs by Cassina
To bolster the exhibition of high end design brands, Downtown Design will also be hosting a series of design talks to inform and educate visitors to the fair. Guest speakers include world renowned designer Giulio Cappellini, iconoclastic artist and designer Ora Ito, French product designer Pauline Deltour and the Italian Architect duo Ludovica+Roberto Palomba.
In addition to the trade fair, Downtown Design will host three installations, specially curated for the event, to engage its visitors and emphasise the quality, innovation and craftsmanship behind today’s contemporary design. Installations include: Nouvelle Vague, Craftsmanship at The Workshop and the Temporary Museum for New Design.
Organised by the Institut Français in the UAE, Nouvelle Vague is a unique design exhibition curated by Cédric Morisse. Nouvelle Vague is coming to the Middle East for the first time and will feature a specially curated collection of design with an exhibition curated in partnership with UAE’s Khalid Shafar.
Tables by Lamellux
The Craftsmanship at The Workshop installation will aim to show visitors the quality and skill that goes into product manufacturing in factories in Denmark and the careful selection of materials used. The stand will showcase works from Fritz Hansen, Carl Hansen and Louis Poulsen as well as featuring live craftsmen working on two items, the upholstery of the iconic egg chair and the weaving of a wishbone chair’s seat.
The Temporary Museum for New Design, the cornerstone of Milan’s Design Week and reputed for exhibiting work from some of the world’s leading product designers such as Karim Rashid, Marc Sadler and Marcel Wanders, has chosen Downtown Design for its first exhibition outside Milan. Known for their innovation and design entrepreneurship, they will be exhibiting pieces from cutting edge brands including Astrini, Crjos, Landor, Melongranoblu, Slide, Slide Art, Tagina and Zava.
Cristina Romelli Gervasoni, Downtown Design Fair Director, said: “Downtown Design brings quality driven, international commercial design brands to the Middle East. We aim to act as a platform for business networking. The Middle East is a very appealing market for the brands we have selected and we are delighted to be able to bring to Dubai new brands who are debuting in the Middle East for the first time at Downtown Design.
Lamp by Muuto
“Alongside the exhibition, Downtown Design will also feature an extensive programme for trade professionals and visitors to engage with some of the world’s leading designers and to network with key figures in the industry. By providing a unique platform to give international brands access to the rapidly growing market of the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Downtown Design is set to become a key design show on Dubai’s creative landscape, thereby fulfilling His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, recent decree of increasing the overall contribution to the creative sector to Dubai’s GDP.”
The four-day event, which will be free for trade visitors and industry professionals between 12pm and 8pm daily, will also be open to members of the public from 5pm to 8pm on 29-31 October and 12-6pm on Friday 1st November.
For more information and to enter your project before 30 September 2013 visit the A’ Design Awards website.
More information from the organisers follows:
The A’ Design Award and Competition is one of the worlds’ most prestigious and inclusive design accolades that brings together architects, designers, companies and media members under the same roof. The design competition highlights best architects and designers worldwide to provide them publicity, fame and recognition through international press coverage and exhibitions. Entries to the competition are judged by an expert 50-person jury panel composed of academics, press members and professionals from the fields of architecture and design.
Awarded entries are provided a rich winners’ kit that includes the annual yearbook, the award trophy, press release preparation and distribution, winners’ logo, PR tools, winners’ exhibition and gala-night participation. Last year, the A’ Design Award & Competition has attracted over three thousand entries from seven continents and projects from sixty-seven countries were highlighted as winners.
The A’ Design Award & Competition logo reaches over nine hundred million impressions each year through traditional media, television channels and online publications. Entries to the competition can be made under: Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture Design, Building Materials & Components Design and Exhibition Design categories among others. The standard deadline for entering your works to the competition is on 30 September 2013.
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of digital technology in architecture opened last week, as the inaugural event at The Turbulences extension to the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France.
Bloom by Bloom Games. Main image: Bloomberg Pavilion by Akihisa Hirata, 2011
ArchiLab was first started in 1999 to explore how digital technology is redefining the way architects and other creatives design.
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion by ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart and Prof.Achim Menges, 2011
This edition presents projects by over 40 architects, designers and artists who all use biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnology, and simulation in their work.
Grotto by Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger, 2012
The “world’s first 3D-printed room” by architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger has been installed in the gallery.
Xuberance Taiwan tower by Steven Ma, 2010
Designs by Beijing architecture studio Mad and fashion designer Iris van Herpen are also on display.
Seltanica lights by Cmmnwlth, 2011
The exhibition runs until 2 February 2014. For further details visit the Frac Centre website.
More information from the museum follows:
The Turbulences – Frac Centre
Inaugural Event: 9th ArchiLab, Naturalizing Architecture, 14 September 2013 – 2 February 2014.
In 1999, the first ArchiLab edition – an international laboratory of architecture – explored the revolution brought about by the emergence of digital technologies and focused on redefining the arena of architecture.
Going well beyond the boundaries of their discipline, architects are now developing a praxis at the crossroads of computer sciences, engineering, and biology.
META-Folly for the Metropolitan Landscape by ecoLogicStudio, 2012
Today digital simulation tools, borrowed from the sciences, are opening up unprecedented areas of investigation, allowing for the exploration of evolutionary principles peculiar to the living world.
Thanks to advanced mathematical mastery, architecture is now being enacted at the level of matter and tends towards a comprehensive re-creation of the organic, made possible by science.
Over and above a so-called “sustainable” approach, it is the change in the very concept of nature which is being questioned here, inseparable as it now is from technical and technological production.
It is these challenges, somewhere between architecture and science, that this new ArchiLab exhibition is keen to illustrate by way of an international show presenting the projects of some 40 architects, designers and artists, from a new generation of creative people at the forefront in terms of biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnology, and simulation.
Federico Díaz, Perry Hall, Casey Reas, Marius Watz.
International Symposium
Architecture and Sciences: A New Naturalness – Scène Nationale, Orléans, Thursday 24 October 2013, 9.30am-6.30pm
In partnership with Réseau des maisons de l’architecture and Maison de l’Architecture du Centre. The problematics of ArchiLab 2013 will be broached at an international symposium which will bring together ten exhibited architects. Thanks to the new digital technologies, the same processes of “naturalization” are at work in architecture and design, as well as in the scientific disciplines.
The Nature(s) of the Artefact – Domaine national de Chambord (Chambord Castle), Friday 25 October 2013, 9.30am-5.30pm (fully booked).
Under the scientific supervision of Frédéric Migayrou. This interdisciplinary conference will encompass human sciences and fundamental sciences. Art and architectural historians and scientists (biologists, geneticists, specialists in living world simulation systems) will question the sources of the Renaissance and Mannerism by linking them with the present-day field of digital technologies, marked by the simulation of living world growth phenomena.
Inside the exhibition
The Turbulences – Frac Centre, 88 rue du Colombier, 45000 Orléans, France. Tel. +33 (0)2 38 62 52 00
Dezeen promotion: the third edition of Beijing Design Week will take place from 26 September to 3 October in the Chinese capital.
Micro Hutong by Zhang Ke, Standard Architecture. Top: Starting Something, Central Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Sandberg Institute
Beijing Design Week 2013 will include events, lectures and exhibitions across the city as part of a programme curated by Beatrice Leanza.
“Crisis in Parasite Paradise”, Smart City 2013 International Design Exhibition at China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts
The Main Exhibition at the China Museum of Digital Arts will focus on Smart Cities, using Beijing as a case study.
Starting Something, Central Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Sandberg Institute
The ancient Dashilar hutong district will host installations and pop-up shops, along with a lab set up to generate ideas for preserving Beijing’s historical alleyways.
Rawr at Red Bricks, Caochangdi
Designers based in the Caochangdi creative community will present their latest projects, plus interior design, furniture and fashion showrooms in the 751 D-Park will open their doors to visitors.
Digital Infiltration, DADA
After it was duplicated all over the country, Florentijn Hofman’s giant rubber duck will be exhibited to emphasise problems with copyright in China.
3D body scanning system by Rawr! Lab
This year’s guest city Amsterdam will showcase a range of Dutch art and design, led by designer Marcel Wanders.
Instant Heaven collection by Katrin Reinfurt, MPMP
Beijing Design Week (BJDW) returns to enliven China’s capital with a unique city-wide showcase of initiatives celebrating creativity and innovation from the design field at large. Beijing Design Week 2013 will be held from 26th September to 3rd of October 2013.
With Beijing designation as City of Design by UNESCO in 2012, BJDW reinforces its positioning as an on-going observatory, acting both as an infrastructural provider and a cultural connective system. While assisting the cultivation and development of the local design industry, it makes itself referent for an international community of makers and thinkers as a catalyst of ideas, forward-looking solutions and academic explorations originating from, challenged and inspired by the contemporary predicament of global China.
Banana Hammock by Henny van Nistelrooy
BJDW 2013 proposes an established format of key sections, including: Design Forum with leading figures and policy makers from the global industry in cooperation with CCTV and The New York Times; a Main Exhibition produced and hosted by the China Museum of Digital Arts (CMoDA) continuing its curatorial focus on Smart Cities taking Beijing as a case study; Design HOP series of exhibitions, the largest component of Beijing Design Week program embraces three main core areas; the Guest City program, this year taken up by Amsterdam; the annual Design Award devoted to local innovators and a renewed trading platform dubbed Design Market, covering from household, to IT and automotive sectors.
Under the new creative direction of Beijing-based curator Beatrice Leanza, the overall program of BJDW 2013 looks at creating a meaningful narrative across its various outlets, by aggregating perspectives from current design discourse and practice into an experiential storytelling taking Beijing as its theatre of action.
Cabanes, renovation of the Cha’er hutong in Dashilar by Matali Crasset
From traditional alleys of old Beijing to the surreal atmosphere of new hubs of contemporary art and design, one of the most dynamic sections of Beijing Design Week is Design Hop that this year shall activate the resourcefulness of design thinking by sustaining long-term initiatives unlimited to the event-focused temporality of a week kermes, and rather manifesting itself as “process”- an incubator of engaged actions and reflections.
Renouncing an overarching thematic framework as guiding device, the existing zones will showcase instead an articulated series of projects, events, exhibitions, installations, seminars and lectures as to render key investigative domains that moderate design discourse and practice within specific urban zones.
Dashilar
With traces of the imperial past enriching the facades of buildings, traditional courtyard houses, and the social context of its unique alleys, Dashilar area abounds in a richness of stories.
Following a revitalisation scheme intended to address the criticalities of micro-scale planning, contextualise discussion around “design heritage” and preservation within the social and environmental scenario of old Beijing hutongs, Beijing Design Week has launched Dashilar Pilot, inviting top international and local designers, architects, academics and universities to create a one-of-a-kind lab to generate unique ideas and plausible solutions.
Caochangdi
Tucked away on the outer edge of the 5th ring road, Caochangdi is one-of-a-kind among the 300 so-called “villages in the city” and hosts a self-motivated group of contemporary galleries, artists’ studios and independent creative and educational ventures in art, design and architecture.
Caochangdi continues as a hotbed for experimental and innovation-driven research in design making and thinking, looking at the intersection of art, design and new technologies. Bringing together a host of initiatives from the local makers community and independent creators living and working in China, it will feature unique creative outputs resulting from the encounter between cutting edge digital production technologies and centuries-old crafting techniques.
751 D-Park
Situated on the ground of a former power plant, 751 D-Park has become one of the most important center in the Beijing’s design scene housing interior designers, furniture showrooms and fashion firms.
In 751 D-Park (751 Intl Design Festival) an exciting new set of large scale, site-responsive projects address design as semantics of experience and place-making, with a focus on architectural experimentation, urban planning and its connections with digital culture and interactivity, as well as projects presented by leading Chinese institutions and universities like Tsinghua University and CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts).
Guest City Program
Led by the figure of Marcel Wanders, Amsterdam, Guest City of Beijing Design Week 2013, uses the motto Design goes Dutch to create a cross-cultural art dialogue by bringing to town several projects that wishes to involve both guest city artist and designers with the local community.
The Mellor watch by Nixon at Dezeen Watch Store. Top: Clock by Another Country
Dezeen Watch Store will be launching the new collection of timepieces by lifestyle brand Nixon and selling some of our most popular models – more details to follow soon.
Madera by The Andes House
Designjunction’s ground floor will include over 30 pop-ups from retailers including Theo, Native Union and Clippings.com.
Silt Collection by VW+BS
Located at The Sorting Office on New Oxford Street from 18 to 22 September, the exhibition will form the hub of the West End Design District.
Stationery holders by Another Country
As media partner, Dezeen has created a digital guide to showrooms and events in the area over the coming week – see it here.
More than 100 global brands, 30 design-led pop-up stores, 100s of product launches, live factory demonstrations, seminars, screenings, premium eateries, installations and more return to the industrial 1960s Sorting Office.
Top international brands including &tradition, Modus, Made in Ratio, Carl Hansen, Moroso, Zanotta, Bolon, Assembly Room, String, Mitab, Bla Station and Another Country take centre stage at London’s leading design destination.
Welsumer Cushions by Lindsey Lang
Introducing lightjunction supported by Megaman
This year, sees the launch of lightjunction, London’s first trade show dedicated to high-end decorative lighting.
Staged in partnership with experts Cameron Peters Fine Lighting, lightjunction brings together a curated selection of global lighting brands including Woka, LZF, Vibia, Artemide, Orsjo, Innermost, Sharon Marston, Northern Lighting, Vitamin among others.
Terracotta Element Vessel by Vitamin
Live Factory Demonstrations
The Flash Factories return, bringing a diverse selection of industrial processes to life with live demonstrations each day.
This year Blueprint magazine, Additive Earth Systems and the Bartlett School of Architecture have collaborated to launch a competition using 3D printing technology. The best entries will be on show. There will be live 3D printing running throughout the event and a showcase of on-going experiments into large scale 3D printing for its potential application in architecture.
Brooks Saddles, Britain’s oldest saddle makers, will demonstrate the process of making beautifully handcrafted leather saddles alongside the world’s first full scale, portable CNC router system. Grow CNC, can be easily assembled on site, ready to cut in 3 minutes, and packed back away into its flight case for easy transport and storage.
Tableware by Another Country
Pop-up shops
Designjunction’s ground floor is a retail emporium with more than 30 carefully selected stores selling furniture, prints, ceramics, glassware, books, watches and accessories. Retailers include Cherchbi, Theo, Clippings.com, Dezeen Watch Store, Dyke & Dean, Melin Tregwnt, Monotype, Native Union, and Outline Editions. Fans of 20th Century collectibles will be able to purchase originals from Midcentury Modern show, also taking up residency.
Plant pots by Yu Hiraoka
World-Class Eateries
Designjunction has sourced fantastic eateries at this year’s show. On the ground floor, premium street food vans and market stalls selected by The Real Street Food Festival, offer a variety of international flavours. While refreshments including cold sodas and cocktails will be served from a bespoke bar by SodaStream.
An authentic Italian café operated by Gelupo and a Chilean wine bar commissioned by the Chilean Embassy will feature on the first floor. On the top floor Jamie Oliver’s celebrated Barbecoa will set up a temporary residency, offering a selection of modern dishes. Transport for London meanwhile is opening a micro-brewery bar in association with Camden Town Brewery to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
Om hooks by Anwar Studio
Challenging debates – sponsored by Phaidon Atlas
Live debates and panel discussions are happening throughout the day in a new seminar theatre designed by architecture duo VW+BS. The sessions will take a closer look at the relationship between design and architecture. All talks are free to attend and can be seen at thedesignjunction.co.uk/programme.
Tokyobike tours
Join the tokyobike tours and see London’s hidden design gems, with guided rides across the capital each day. Led by industry experts each tour will start and finish at designjunction. Book your space here.
Cushions by Kangan Arora Design
West End Design District
designjunction has launched a West End Design District to celebrate the best design in the capital’s West End. Visitors can take advantage of discount offers from stores such as Alessi, Molteni&C, Bo Concept, EDC, Habitat, Heals, The Conran Shop, Ligne Roset West End, Dark Room and Tracey Neuls for the weekend of the London Design Festival 21 – 22 September. Offers are available to Elle Decoration readers (October issue: on sale 1 September) or Visa Premium card holders.
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