Archive for the ‘Furniture’ Category
Friday, May 14th, 2010

The Crafts Council’s annual art fair for contemporary objects – COLLECT – is taking place at the Saatchi Gallery. Over 300 artists are exhibiting works with representative galleries from around the world. (more…)
Tags: Chelsea, Collect, Crafts Council, Saatchi Gallery
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Monday, April 26th, 2010

At 5pm on 28th April, auction house Phillips de Pury & Company is staging its spring DESIGN sale in its London showroom. The sale focusses on rare and important pieces from celebrated 20th and 21st Century designers. (more…)
Tags: Atelier Van Lieshout, Charlotte Perriand, Design auction, Ettore Sottsass, Harry Bertoia, Jean Prouvé, Laurence and Patrick Seguin, Phillips de Pury & Company, Poul Henningsen, Serge Mouille, Shiro Kuramata, Victoria
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

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…)
Tags: 5.5 Designers, Bertjan Pot, Brompton, Cristina Morozzi, Front, Giles Miller, Jean-Marie Massaud, Luca Nichetto, Maarten Baas, Marc Sadler, Marcel Wanders, Peter Marigold, Skitsch, Xavier Lust
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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…)
Tags: haunch of venison, Mayfair, Spun, Thomas Heatherwick
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

To mark the launch of El Ultimo Grito’s new book – Abandon Architectures – the Aram Gallery is presenting three new collections of work from the design studio, previously unseen in the UK. (more…)
Tags: Abandon Architectures, Aram Gallery, Dialogues, El Ultimo Grito
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Dutch design duo Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job are showing a new series of work titled Industry at Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The exhibition includes highly ornamented pieces which contain dark, satirical, and bravely confrontational comments on the modern world. (more…)
Tags: Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Industry, Job Smeets, Mayfair, Nynke Tynagel, Studio Job
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Tuesday, 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. (more…)
Tags: 20% discount, Anders Folke Andersen, Brompton, brompton design district, Monocle video, Nina Hertig, Nina Tolstrup, sigmar, Studiomama, The Modern Danish Warehouse
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Tuesday, 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. (more…)
Tags: Hans J Wegner, Herbert Krenchel, Ib Geertsen, Rocket Gallery, Shoreditch, Trio
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Thursday, 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. (more…)
Tags: Barbican, Barbican Art Gallery, Ron Arad, Ron Arad: Restless
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SHOP: THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE (SPITALFIELDS)
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Successful Brighton design store The Lollipop Shoppe has opened its first London outlet within Old Spitalfields Market, selling a diverse portfolio of products from watches to furniture and cushions to lighting. (more…)
Tags: Found Associates, Old Spitalfields Market, Spitalfields, The Lollipop Shoppe
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