London Design Festival 2013: Gift Guide: Take home the best of The Big Smoke’s annual display of goods

London Design Festival 2013: Gift Guide


Each year the London Design Festival showcases an impressive range of design concepts coming out of Britain and beyond. Teeming with one-offs and prototypes aimed mostly at prosumers and journalists, the week-long, city-wide exhibition also includes a surprising amount of furniture, homewares, prints, accessories and more that are launched…

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London Design Festival 2013: Hunting & Narud: The design duo draws from their native Norway to create functional but wondrously sculptural mirrors

London Design Festival 2013: Hunting & Narud


by LinYee Yuan Rough quarry granite, matte steel and a highly polished copper mirror are the elements that make up one of the most visible design objects at this year’s London Design Festival. The sculptural Copper…

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London Design Festival 2013: Creative Illuminations: From Indian-inspired modular pendants to woven willow chandeliers, eight lights radiating from the UK’s annual furniture fair

London Design Festival 2013: Creative Illuminations


Despite the recent infatuation with the Edison bulb, in the past few years there have been drastic improvements made to commercial incandescent lights; from miniature LEDs to the handsome, energy-saving Plumen. And while that remains an exciting and innovative field to watch, on our recent trip to London…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Grace Jones’ memoir, 3D meat, Memphis in London and more in our look at the web this week

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Lightning Strikes in the Grand Canyon The majesty of the Grand Canyon is one of the greatest natural wonders in the US—and the world. Even the most pedestrian photographers can capture beautiful images of the two-billion-year-old geological work in progress. But when…

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SodaStream’s New Play, Flavors, Vending Machine and More: Yaron Kopel, the brand’s Chief Innovation and Designer Officer, shares the company’s latest products

SodaStream's New Play, Flavors, Vending Machine and More


Things move quickly at SodaStream, particularly since they partnered with Yves Behar’s fuseproject. Following the success of their completely redesigned and reengineered Source carbonated drink-maker, the brand has…

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Belgraves: Thompson Hotels’ transatlantic addition ideally conflates business with pleasure for discerning travelers

Belgraves

On the corner of a quiet street in a neighborhood surrounded by foliage-filled 19th-century squares, stylish lingerie shops and swanky cigar bars sits Belgraves, Thompson Hotels’ latest project and one of London’s newest designer digs. Aptly named, the hotel is located in Belgravia—an affluent area home to many of…

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Bon Voyager: Young Korean designers present three products to help you get around

Bon Voyager

While exploring the many hubs at London Design Festival last month we came across “Bon-Voyager,” a modest display of creative concept products by a select group of young Korean designers. Supported by Korea Design Membership, a government-run initiative to nurture the nation’s best design talent, and presented by University…

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London Design Festival 2012: The Copper Impression

The metal reigns at LDF

London Design Festival 2012: The Copper Impression

The use of ultra-versatile copper is on the rise, whether inspired by the 204 copper petals forming this year’s Olympic torch by Thomas Heatherwick, the promise of the metal’s unique patina upon years of use or its ever-increasing street value. The reason for copper’s distinct resurgence is undoubtedly as…

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London Design Festival 2012: Vibrant Furnishings

Creative takes on color brighten up Blighty

London Design Festival 2012: Vibrant Furnishings

The London Design Festival is in full color this year, slapping Blighty’s austere environment with an array of vibrant furnishings. The creative takes on color found around the numerous festival locations speak out against the ubiquity of wooden wares, showing how sustainably-minded design doesn’t always have to point back to…

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Out of The Woods

RCA students camp out in Terrence Conran’s backyard to produce 12 chairs featured at the V&A.

Out of The Woods

by Monica Khemsurov While wood will always be a well-respected classic in the furniture world, these days it seems like we’re constantly hearing about yet another designer making yet another new chair out of walnut or oak. But the news that 15 of them have spent a week camping in…

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