London Design Festival 2015
Debuting in 2003, London Design Festival has rapidly become one of (if not the) world’s most important celebrations of design and creativity. As a British-born publication, it also holds a special place in our hearts. With hundreds upon hundreds of events throughout the city — between 19 – 27 September — here’s where you’ll find our picks; essential happenings; reviews and in-depth stories.
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Hailing from Mexico — rich in vivid, graphical heritage — Mestiz stay true to their words: “seeking to spread traditional craftsmanship and local talent into a contemporary lifestyle for its recovery and evolution”. Their first...
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“Souvenir” has become something of a derogatory term in the modern era of tourism, bringing to mind cheap, mass-produced trinkets based on cultural clichés. Churned out for visitors who have a few foreign banknotes in their pockets that must be...
Dispatches
London Design Festival takes the city by its particulars and bombards it with home; interior; exterior and conceptual candy. Party after party, showcase after showcase it sings a celebratory chorus for global design and the importance of it in our...
Stuff Crush
Wristwatches have always strived to innovate, and in the last century advancements in technology have been enthusiastically adopted by the paying public. From early analogue calendars to complex chronographs, digital LCD displays, calculators, even...
Opening Soon • London
We each absorb experiences and sensations from the moment we are born, and our childhood influences naturally play an important — and in some cases defining — role in our adult lives. This would seem to hold especially true for visual artists,...
Opening Soon • London
“Mine's the white coat with the black seams. No, not that one, to the right...” Luckily for the attendant at this cloakroom at the V&A, the 150 nearly identical coats all belong to Faye Toogood, who lends them out as a sort of access pass to her...
Opening Soon • London
I haven't seen such a performance around food since my little brother decided to wear his spaghetti as a hat, and let me tell you that the Eataipei events are certainly much less messy and a lot more enjoyable. We're at Tent London for a glimpse of...
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Remember that golden yet short-lived period when mobile phones still fit comfortably in your jeans pocket, battery life was measured in days rather than hours, and we didn't all walk around with a stoop, incessantly swiping and poking at the damn...
Opening Soon • London
Expect plenty of superfluous activities in London over the coming week or so; London Design Festival, whilst embracing plenty of brilliant, bleeding-edge design, will inevitably offer up a lot of gimmicks. Vulgar gimmicks, showy gimmicks, and...
Opening Soon • United Kingdom
The Earth is peppered almost every day with meteorites crashing down through the atmosphere. Luckily most of these lumps of space rock are too small to do any significant damage, and often land in unpopulated areas of the planet — neither of which...
Opening Soon • London
Was Sunday school still a thing when you were growing up? If not you may need some help with the mythology surrounding the Tower of Babel — a yarn from the Old Testament, when God was an angry and vengeful old grump. The story goes that after God...
Opening Soon • London
Fox hunting in the city. The city of London. Tarquin will be overjoyed ... TALLY-HO! That's right folks, the same city inhabited by soulless billionaires enabled by Parliament's toffs, the same toffs with literal blood on their hands thanks to an...
City Notes
“A masterclass in conceptuality,” a hotel that “takes you on a fuzzy trip of vague recollection,” and “a paradise of inimitable escapism.” That’s what we said about Port de Sóller’s impressive Bikini Island & Mountain Hotel three...
City Notes
Hidden in the quiet heart of rural Spain, La Torre del Visco Hotel offers unrivalled luxury and adventures walking in a shepherd’s footsteps across the ancient Aragonese landscape that once inspired Picasso… In the early 20th century,...
City Notes
The world’s first StandardX hotel has opened in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the offshoot of the renowned global The Standard hotels, officially touted as the brand’s “rebellious younger sibling” with an offering of “intuitive hospitality without...
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See captivating, never-before-published photographs of 1970s and '80s USA cultural hotspots including New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami Beach and more in Street Walker, a new publication from revered street photographer and...
Dispatches
Hotels around the world are constantly searching for new ways to improve the guest experience, and innovation has become a key part of their strategy. Modern travellers expect more than just a clean room and a comfortable bed. They are looking for...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Fifteen: Mental Health for the Planet. As awareness of climate change and environmental degradation grows, an...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Fourteen: Ancestral Wellness. In recent years, the wellness world has seen a resurgence of ancient practices...