SKITSCH is an Italian producer and retailer of contemporary design, which launched with aplomb in Milan in April 2009. Now they have opened a new 350-square-metre store on Brompton Road, in the heart of the Brompton Design District. (more…)
Archive for April, 2010
SHOP: SKITSCH, BROMPTON
Thursday, April 8th, 2010RESTAURANT: CARAVAN, CLERKENWELL
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
EXHIBITION: ‘CHEZ CZECH’ AT MINT, BROMPTON
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Design store Mint is staging a retrospective of Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky. To compliment Velcovsky’s extensive body of work, Mint is also exhibiting a selection of works by other emerging and established Czech designers. (more…)
EXHIBITION: SPUN BY THOMAS HEATHERWICK AT HAUNCH OF VENISON, MAYFAIR
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
For his second solo show at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery, maverick designer Thomas Heatherwick has produced a twist on conventional furniture design – a ‘functional’ spinning top chair formed from a single profile rotated through 360 degrees. (more…)
EXHIBITION: URBAN AFRICA AT DESIGN MUSEUM, BERMONDSEY
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Leading architect David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. The photographs are displayed at the Design Museum, in an exhibition titled Urban Africa. (more…)
LDG NEWSLETTER: APRIL 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
For information on design activities taking place across London in April, check out our newsletter for the month. Be sure to enter our final ticket giveaway competitions this month, in partnership with the Ron Arad exhibition at Barbican. (more…)
