London Design Festival 2014
Firmly established now as the world's most forward-thinking design festival, and the one closest to our hearts, here's another selection of our top picks, profiles and reviews of events, launches and staggering innovation.
Journal
Earlier this year, the UK government announced it will allow driverless cars on the country's roads from January 2015, paving the way for the adoption of a technological advancement that has hitherto been the preserve of science fiction. Sit back...
Journal
Danish design wonders HAY along with London designer Sebastian Wrong picked up where they left off at last year's London Design Festival with their new products the backdrop to a series of pop-up dining shenanigans, seeing them rightfully crowned as...
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As if this year's London Design Festival hadn't excited enough of you, an event at Shoreditch Design Triangle-hub Ace Hotel Shoreditch promised super stimulation! Amongst a number of things happening at the hotel last week was Super Stimuli, an...
Opening Soon • London
It's a big year for The Aram Gallery – the Covent Garden venue is celebrating its golden anniversary in 2014 (that's 50 years, singletons), and in keeping with its mission to champion experimental and new design, Aram is ditching the traditional...
Opening Soon • London
In the words of disembodied head and professional Cockney Ray Winstone: “Nah that's a proppa toow”. I can't do accents, but that's my impersonation of his impersonation of a Cockney. Anyway, the Tooled Up exhibition is sure to be Ray's...
Opening Soon • London
It's a couple of months since we put out a call on behalf of noted photographer Dan Tobin Smith, a call for 'kipple' to arrive at DTS's Haggerston studio. Kipple? The personal flotsam and jetsam that humans collate, as defined in Do Androids Dream...
Journal
Glass artist, craftsman and athlete (keep reading), Jeremy Wintrebert, launched his Human Nature installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum this weekend, as part of this year's London Design Festival - commissioned by long celebrated champagne...
Stuff Crush
There are patterned fabrics, and then there are patterned fabrics. And then there are the designs of Kristjana S Williams. The Icelander's vivacious imagery brings together antique cartography, imagined landscapes of exotic flora and fauna that...
Opening Soon • London
Multi-disciplinary creative agency HORT is 20 years old this year, and the Berlin-based group is having a party at KK Outlet to celebrate. Instead of trawling their archives for a retrospective, HORT has put together a new collection that was...
Stuff Crush
This might be a bold statement, but I reckon brass is one of the most attractive metal alloys. There, I've said it. But the biggest problem with brass is all the polishing that's necessary to keep it looking tip top. If only there was a way to halve...
Stuff Crush
Delicious product design ahoy! Following on from his acclaimed Interbau Collection, Liam Treanor is back with the Santiago Collection, set to debut at this month's London Design Festival. The latest work is marked by the same understated elegance...
Stuff Crush
“When I was little, I didn’t have a clue about what I wanted to do when I grew up. I was way more interested in Lego and exploring the bugs and animals in our back garden. I was still clueless when I graduated from high school, so it took some...
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
City Notes
With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
Dispatches
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Dispatches
Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Eight: Restorative Home Design. In the pursuit of wellness, many people are turning their attention homeward....
Dispatches
Austin’s housing market has seen a significant boom in recent years, with many homeowners looking to boost their property’s value through home improvement projects. In a city where home prices continue to rise, updating key areas of a property,...