Photo: Lugermad for WBIB
Our list to make the most of London Design Festival this weekend!
Get the big picture: 100% Design
This year the event takes on the theme ‘Design in Colour’. The latest products from leading design brands across five sections: Interiors, Workplace, Kitchens & Bathrooms, Design & Build and Emerging Brands. The show is free for trade professionals if you register in advance. Location: Olympia London
Photo: Lugermad for WBIB
A stroll across Matteo Fogale and Laetitia de Allegri’s tinted acrylic tunnel
Installed in the V&A bridge, the tunnel is designed to distort perspective when crossing the space.
Photo: LDF 2015
Find your center admiring 100,000 big white balloons
Heartbeat by Charles Pétillon is a public art installation made up of thousands of balloons which have filled the South Hall of the Grade II-listed Victorian Market Building.
Photo: LDF 2015
A view of Architects’ take on shop windows
One of London’s most famous shopping streets has been taken by the The RIBA Regent Street Windows project, which this year includes 13 new installations in some of the most relevant windows. Ends 27 September.
Image: Conran and Partners for Brooks Brothers. Photo: Pinterest
A stop to rest at Turkishceramics’ Unexpected Hill, at the RA.
Situated in the 19th century façade of Burlington Gardens, the design explores how an 2D material can create an imaginative 3D structure for public use.
Image: Turkishceramics installation. Photo: Hufton + Crow
A stop to shop at Top Dixon’s Multiplex
This a multi-sensory pop-up department store in the Old Selfridges Hotel takes inspiration from the International Space Station and the toilet in Andy Warhol’s the Factory. Open until the 15 of October
Photo: Lugermad for WBIB
Back to basics: Studio Toogood’s drawing room
Studio Toogood, based in London, has created this drawing room filled with sketches covering the walls, along with furniture, clothing and personal objects. At Somerset House.
Photo: Toogood
Picking flowers: Lee Broom’s showroom in blossom
London designer Lee Broom has transformed his showroom into a Flower Shop, inside out. His latest collections of furniture and vases have been presented against this backdrop of flowers.
Photo: Luke Hayes
Kid’s play: Patternity’s “playground” at Somerset House
Using their pattern style trademark, the studio created this 3D installation at Somerset House, which they described as a “giant patterned playground.
Photo: Patternity
