March 10th, 2010

The Dock Kitchen is here to stay! Housed at Portobello Dock – the studio and showroom base for designer Tom Dixon – the restaurant was initially set up as a temporary intervention to make use of the old kitchen space. Its success since launching in September 2009 has now secured its permanent home. Read More…
Tags: Dock Kitchen, Ladbroke Grove, Portobello Dock, Stevie Parle, Tom Dixon
March 9th, 2010

Design duo Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar of People Will Always Need Plates have created three new teatowel designs to raise money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres and boost awareness of the charity’s Love Maggie’s Day on 26th March 2010. Read More…
Tags: cancer, charity, Dundee, Fife, Frank Gehry, london, Love Maggie's Day, Maggie Keswick Jencks, Maggie's, Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, People Will Always Need Plates, Richard Rogers, teatowel, Zaha Hadid
March 3rd, 2010

For information on design activities taking place across London in March, check out our newsletter for the month. Don’t miss our exclusive competition to win copies of Canteen’s new cookbook – Great British Food. Read More…
Tags: LDG newsletter, March 2010
March 3rd, 2010

We’ve got 10 signed copies of Canteen’s new cookbook to win! Canteen is a distinctly British restaurant concept, serving top-quality British dishes across 4 London locations. Competition details below – entry deadline: 17th March 2010. Read More…
Tags: Baker Street, Canary Wharf, Ebury Press, Great British Food, LDG competition, Royal Festival Hall, Spitalfields
March 2nd, 2010

Nina Hertig, co-founder of Sigmar and an LDG contributor, is hosting the first pop-up Modern Danish Warehouse in an impressive disused Art Deco Garage in Brompton, selling an edited selection of vintage pieces. Read More…
Tags: Anders Folke Andersen, Brompton, brompton design district, Nina Hertig, Nina Tolstrup, sigmar, Studiomama, The Modern Danish Warehouse
March 2nd, 2010

Three legends of mid-century Danish modernism are being exhibited at the Rocket Gallery – Herbert Krenchel, Hans J Wegner, and Ib Geertsen – in an exhibition titled Trio. Read More…
Tags: Hans J Wegner, Herbert Krenchel, Ib Geertsen, Rocket Gallery, Shoreditch, Trio
February 19th, 2010

David Gill Galleries is exhibiting nine new works by ceramics artist Barnaby Barford, which have been made in correlation with his ambitious animated film, Damaged Goods. Read More…
Tags: Animate Projects, Arts Council England, Barnaby Barford, Channel 4, Damaged Goods, David Gill Galleries, Vauxhall
February 18th, 2010

EXCLUSIVE LDG COMPETITION – PART 2: win a pair of tickets to the second ‘Design by Decade‘ talk at the Barbican, taking place in conjunction with the current Ron Arad exhibition. Answer a simple question to win! Read More…
Tags: Design by Decade, LDG competition, Ron Arad, win tickets
February 18th, 2010

The internationally acclaimed London-based designer/architect/artist, Ron Arad, has his very own exhibition of his work at the Barbican Art Gallery. Keep an eye out on this website for the competitions we are running in partnership with Barbican. Read More…
Tags: Barbican, Barbican Art Gallery, Ron Arad, Ron Arad: Restless
February 17th, 2010

The third annual Brit Insurance Design Awards has produced another eclectic and progressive range of nominees, all of which are on show at the Design Museum. Read More…
Tags: Bermondsey, Brit Insurance, Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010, Design Museum