Monday from London Design Festival 2024
The Dezeen team is reporting live from London Design Festival, which takes place 14-22 September. Read on for all the coverage from Monday 16 September.
12:15am – planning ahead
For those of you still planning your week, we have rounded up the 10 key exhibitions and installations to visit during LDF.
We are also hosting a series of talks and events over the next three days in collaboration with Buster + Punch, Molteni&C, Autex Acoustics and Ustwo, as well as a major exhibition with ASUS. There's still time to sign up!
11:55am – are you sitting comfortably?
A short skip across the street for Douglas Jardim is the Chair of Virtue exhibition at One Hundred Shoreditch, which includes five sculptural chairs created by UK-based makers that celebrate form and design.
The Blob Chair by Sophia Colman is a particular standout.
Responding to the theme of Natural Forms, the chair reflects the components of a red blood cell among other elements of the human body.
Judging from looks alone, The Blob Chair does what it says on the tin. Whether it's pleasing or not to sit on, however, is a mystery.
11:15am – crocodiles and corkscrews
Back in east London, editorial intern Douglas Jardim popped into Blond Laboratory – a touring exhibition from the London design studio which debuted earlier this year in Milan.
The exhibition in Shoreditch showcased the work of seven designers who take inspiration from objects that are no longer manufactured or readily available, highlights include a balancing lighter by Swiss-French designer Julie Richoz of Julie Richoz Studio held down by weights and a whisk-turned-candelabra made from springs by Jon Marshall from Pentagram.
Some interesting object pulled from the Blond Artefacts archive are also on display, including a rather snappy crocodile-shaped grater. It's as sharp as their teeth!
11:00am – Tuscany in Mayfair
Fresh from Helsinki Design Week, design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield has headed straight to Mayfair's Gallery Fumi, where Tuscan designer Francesco Perini is presenting a collection of timber furniture.
Nucelo is Perini's first solo show at the gallery, featuring organic-shaped oak furniture inlaid with materials including veiny marble, smooth onyx and robust steel and brass.
Perini was informed by desert roses – naturally occurring crystal clusters that form in harsh weather conditions (which also informed Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar in Doha) for the collection.
All of the furniture was handmade in the designer's workshop in Tuscany
10:30am – LDF bike tour
Design editor Jennifer Hahn is leading a one-person Lime bike tour (sadly not sponsored... yet!) around east London this morning, where there are lots of fun things happening this year.
The first stop was Light in Motion, an exhibition of experimental lighting designs from nine emerging designers and engineers, initiated by London studio Kai Lab.
Many of the works on show play with indirect light, including Sophie Mei Birkin's swampy Biomaterial Submersions, which feature foraged plant matter immortalised in a bio-resin, and Duncan Carter's algorithmically optimised 10,000 Tiny Suns.
A personal highlight was a massive metallic flower, that casts different reflections as it robotically unfurls its petals.
It was created by Heyl & Van Dam for the Ice Melt Tour of American psych rock band Crumb, of which I'm a huge fan (I recommend listening to Ghostride, which will be the soundtrack for the next leg of the cycle tour).
9:30am – the morning after the weekend before...
Following a super buzzy weekend we are back reporting on this year's London Design Festival (LDF). Dezeen's design editor Jennifer Hahn, design and interiors reporter Jane Englefield, editorial assistant Starr Charles, social editor Clara Finnigan and editorial intern Douglas Jardim are on the ground in London reporting live.
Catch up on what happened on the opening day here including an installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast for Johnnie Walker. And to keep you up to date on all the festival activities Dezeen Events Guide has created an LDF guide, highlighting the key events at the festival this year.
To stay up to date, follow Dezeen live: London Design Festival, taking place from 14-22 September 2024. Dezeen Events Guide has created a LDF guide, highlighting the key events at the festival. See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.
Read about everything that happened on the opening day (13 September).
All times are London time.
The lead image is by Tom Ravenscroft.
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