The London Design Festival

17-25 September 2016.

The London Design Festival was conceived by Sir John Sorrell and Ben Evans. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver an unmissable celebration of design. First staged in 2003, the London Design Festivals is currently made up of over 400 events and exhibitions staged by hundreds of Partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world. The London Design Festival

Klauser and Carpenter utility chair

Design/ Furniture

Commissioned by Canteen for their group of restaurants. This design can be seen as an evolution of the once ubiquitous post-war Utility Chair, still a familiar sight in the UK today. Klaus & Carpenter managed to reduce the chair to three main components. The powder-coated frame is made from one continuous piece of bent tube. Hidden fixings join it neatly to the plywood seat and back. Along the way they subtly updated the look of the classic archetype. The result is light weight, stackable and versatile: the Canteen Utility Chair. 2009. VG&P.

100% design 2016

Events/ Exhibition

21-24 September 2016.

100% Design, the UK’s largest design trade show, returns to Olympia, London from 21-24 September for its 22nd edition, with the new theme ‘Experience’. Taking place during London Design Festival, the show welcomes hundreds of exhibitors and more than 26,000 visitors to Kensington over four days, helping to foster relationships between some of the biggest architects, designers, specifiers, retailers and developers in the world. 100% Design.

David Adjaye: Making Memory at the Design Museum, London

Events/ Exhibition

Until 5 May 2019

David Adjaye: Making Memory explores how celebrated architect Sir David Adjaye OBE uses the architecture of monuments and memorials to reflect on history, memory and record human lives. The exhibition covers Adjaye’s landmark structures including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C and the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London. Design Museum .

London Fashion Week 2020

Events/ Retail

14-18 February 2020

This year’s London Fashion Week will be themed around ‘Positive Fashion’. The city-wide activities organised by the British Fashion Council will include 78 brands, 103 stores and 346 events. London Fashion Week .