Month of September, 2010

Andrea Felice reveals Rovi at the London Design Festival

London furniture designer and maker Andrea Felice has created the Rovi Cabinet for this years London Design Festival.

Rovi is a very minimal and elegant aluminum cabinet. Branches weave through the cabinet’s structure – in doing so become one with it. But Rovi’s has thorns – making the handles seem almost inaccessible.

White Velvet Easy Chair - Acne, Liberty of London

LDF Central London

18-26 September ‘10

Various Locations
London, UK

For this year’s London Design Festival, Central London has prepared some unique exhibitions to celebrate creativity in the city. Iconic and unique venues have been selected, and offer their own twist to the Festival.

Design in the East

18-26 September ‘10

Various Locations
East London, UK

This year’s at London Design Festival, East London is becoming a major stage for contemporary design shows and events. It is certainly one of the most dynamic hubs of the London Festival.

'Principia' Angela Connor & Richard Fox 2004, V&A Musuem

LDF at the V&A

18-26 September ‘10

V&A Museum
London, UK

The V&A Museum welcomes the London Design Festival to make its campus a hub for the festival. The V&A will host a broad program of events, talks, and workshops that will take place throughout the week in the Sackler Centre.

New Work at Moss

by Marcus Tremonto

Continuing the use of light as the medium to express form, Marcus Tremonto created new works exclusively for Moss Gallery in New York. These works further push the illusion through the relation of manipulating 2D and 3D imaging.

B&B Italia - Baron & Baron Grande Papilio chair, LDF 2010

Brompton Design District Highlights

17-30 September ‘10

For this year’s London Design Festival, the Brompton Design District has prepared several exiting exhibitions. The Brompton Design District, now in its fourth year, is recognised as one of the most dynamic hubs of the Festival.

Outrace: Trafalgar Square

16-23 September '10

Trafalgar Square
London, UK

The London Design Festival this year has commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation. Their project, titled OUTRACE, gives the general public an opportunity to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi’s production line.

Matilda

16 September – 2 October ‘10

Matilda
Shorditch, London

Matilda Ltd. has decided to host a focused exhibition for the London Design Festival. This event is a compilation of 13 of Australia’s best designers for a launch in the UK.

The works included create paradoxical imagery with young and ancient, primal and sophisticated themes inspiring designers to create simple, authentic designs.

Finnish Institute: Hel Yes!

15 September – 3 October ‘10

Wenlock Basin
London, UK

Hel Yes! Is a temporary restaurant and exhibition imagined and realized by a team of Finnish designers and food visionaries. The group is led by Antto Melasniemi and Mia Wallenius and Klaus Haapaniemi.

Viaduct: Norther Lights

16 September - 2 October '10

Viaduct
Summers Street, London

For this years London Design Festival, Viaduct is launching a new dedicated exhibition space curated by designer Gitta Gschwendtner and titled Norther Lights.

Make Me

15 September - 13 November '10

Moss Gallery
New York, New York

In an exhibition, titled "Make Me," Moss Gallery presents a small and diverse body of work by unrelated artists and designers, who together celebrate rough, craft driven design. Each work, elegant and sensitive, paradoxically has been created in a brutish manner.