London Craft Week May 2018

9 May – 13 May 2018 London. London Craft Week showcases exceptional craftsmanship, featuring workshops, galleries, shops, studios and luxury brands at various locations throughout London. London Craft Week

Maison & Objet, Paris 2017

Exhibition

20-24 January 2017.

The leading decoration show connecting the interior design and lifestyle community worldwide. The show takes you into three major sections, including two new spaces dedicated to textiles. Maison is interior decoration. Objet is concept and retail, while the third section Iinfleuces encompasses luxury, design and architecture. Maison et Objet Paris 2017.

Serpentine Pavilion 2016 at Kensington Garden

Events/ Exhibition

10 June – 9 October 2016.

The Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is an ‘unzipped wall’ that is transformed from straight line to three-dimensional space, creating a dramatic structure that by day houses a café and free family activities and by night becomes a space for the Serpentine’s acclaimed Park Nights programme of performative works by artists, writers and musicians. Serpentine Galleries.

Open House London

Events

17-18 September 2016.

The 24th Open House London weekend will this year give free entry to 750 of the city’s best buildings, 140 of which are new to the annual programme. Among the new entries, highlights include Anish Kapoor’s Orbit Tower, the house Cheesegrater architect Richard Rogers designed for his parents in Wimbledon; Here East, the new technology hub and business campus in Hackney Wick and Second Home, a co- working office in Whitechapel that feels more like a nightclub than a workplace. Perennial favourites The Gherkin, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, tours of the Crossrail tunnels, as well as the Shard, the Cheesegrater and Portcullis House – and of course 10 Downing Street are once again among the buildings visitors can enter for free. Open House London

Richard Sapper 9091 Kettle

Design/ Electronics/ Homeware/ Objects

In 1982 Richard Sapper designed the 9091 kettle for Alessi. The central element in the design is the brass whistle which, when the steam exits, produces a short and pleasant melody. Richard Sapper wanted to avoid the usual anxiety-generating noise produced by other kettles then on the market, and by following this exquisitely poetic philosophy he produced what is probably the first multisensory object for the kitchen. Alessi