There were installations, parties and product launches aplenty at the London design event last week. Here are some photographs from the three-day festival. More pictures to come… Visitors consult a map of the showrooms and exhibitions in the area |
Photography: Sophie Mutevelian |
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Glaze installation by Cousins and Cousins on St John’s Square, glowing in the twilight |
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Sto Werkstatt’s Hypnos provided the opportunity for a quick nap |
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Monotype’s Wordplay exhibition was dotted around Clerkenwell |
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The Invisible Store of Happiness in St John’s Gate was a woven mass of cherry and maple by designer-maker Sebastian Cox and artist Laura Ellen Bacon |
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Architecture practice Russ + Henshaw’s Agora was designed to reinvigorate the underused Clerkenwell Green |
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Everybody’s Free, design duo Hood’s installation at the Strata Tiles showroom, was inspired by the rituals of domesticity |
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The lighting floor at Design Factory |
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Danish brand Carl Hanson & Son’s new showroom in Clerkenwell presents furniture by mid-century designers such as Hans J Wegner, Kaare Klint and Poul Kjaerholm |
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Icon’s House of Culture was a major new venue for CDW |
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Parties and talks took place inside the House of Culture, where leading brands showed their collections |
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Pattern Foundry decorated the entrance of House of Culture with striking fabrics |
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Curiousa and Curiousa at Design Factory |
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Stellar Works showed a new collection by David Rockwell, as well as work by designers such as Neri and Hu |
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Vitra showed adaptations of ten of Jean Prouvé’s classic designs |