Kati Price, the Marketing and Content Manager at Design Council reveals a glimpse of what Covent Garden has to offer with her personal walking tour which she wrote for LONDON DESIGN GUIDE (the book). Follow her route and you may find some hidden gems within and away from the main bustle of the Covent Garden Piazza. (more…)
The Victoria and Albert Museum is launching the first V&A Summer Camp – a free, two day celebration of design. The event incorporates both late night and family activities with the aim of sharing design knowledge and skills. (more…)
The ‘New Simplicity‘ exhibition presents a range of simplistic ‘no frills’ products designed by both emerging and established international designers. Showcased at this Brompton gallery location are classic designs alongside new innovations utilising the latest Rapid Manufacturing technologies.
When we created LONDON DESIGN GUIDE (the book), we took the decision to break this vast city into manageable areas. To accompany each area, we asked a local to write a personal tour of their favourite places. Here is shoe designer Tracey Neuls‘ tour of Marylebone, home to her inimitable shoe store. (more…)
Housed at their Mayfair gallery, British producer Established & Sons is showcasing their collection of lighting and objects which they recently developed in collaboration with legendary Italian glass producer Venini. (more…)
The colour red is often symbolically associated with sin, guilt, pain, passion, blood, anger and debt. Might this be an over-analysis of French architect Jean Nouvel‘s all red design for the 10th annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion?
For information of design activities taking place across London in July, check out our newsletter for the month. For our July promotion, we’ve negotiated a 25% ticket discount to New Designers exhibition. (more…)
We’ve teamed up with our friends at STARLITE – London’s first urban drive-in – to give you the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to watch the old movie classic ‘Grease’ on Saturday evening 3rd July in Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery. As a winner, you will be given your very own Volvo in which to watch the movie. This is a 24 hour competition – enter by midday on Friday 2nd July! (more…)
At ninety-four years of age the Danish-born American designer Jens Risom has collaborated with Rocket Gallery and Benchmark Furniture, who have jointly secured the European rights to reissue his 1950s and 1960s furniture designs. The first collection of nine pieces is being exhibited at Rocket. (more…)
