London Design Festival 2017: more than 300 exhibits and events, in 7 districts and at V&A

London Design Fair, first time with Design Frontiers

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17-09-2017
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London Design Festival 2017: more than 300 exhibits and events, in 7 districts and at V&A

London Design Fair, first time with Design Frontiers

Until September 24 (and for many exhibit the date is slightly extended) London hosts contemporary design all over the city thanks to the annual London Design Festival, a consolidated appointment in the design fairs calendar even if more glancing at its consumer side.

 

Further the large scale Landmark Projects (spread out all over the city as the supersize Zaha Hadid’s bench or as Sclera by David Adjaye, a circular pavilion born in 2008 outside Royal Albert Hall made entirely of American tulip-tree, until the handmade metal work by Bex Simon at Westminster Magistrates Court, including also an original soundtrack to download with its QR code once onsite), the V&A various Commissions are the epicenter of the London Design Week with their 21 exhibits, awards and events making of the most stunning arts&craft museum in the world the place-to-be even this September.

 

We might suggest to plan at least one and half day of visit: beside all its permanent collections and other exhibits not regarding the design week, it hosts While We Wait by Bethlehem architects Elias and Yousef Anastas: it is a tower made of various local limestones cut to link each other. It will be given back to its territory (Cremisan Valley) once the design week will end by being placed against the Israeli wall still on construction nevertheless the International community condemnation. 

 

As every year, V&A hosts also the British Land Celebration of Design Awards divided in four sections - two of them backed by companies Panerai and Tanqueray (a gin brand always very close to design world). If you will be not joining the award dinner (on Sept. 18), the exhibition of the awarded projects will be on display at Clore Study Room.

Glass does not lack on show, it will be close to the Glass and Ceramics Galleries and the selected artist with his two sculptural pieces is the Czech Petr Stanický.

Flynn Talbot uses for the first time the Prince Consort Gallery where created the site-specific Reflections, an immersive installation totally devoted to colour. And Ross Lovegrove uses more than 20 meters of canvas (sponsor Alcantara) to build a gigantic installation which resembles a snake in the Tapestry Room.

Active every day of the festival, original and performative and always at V&A there is Slave/Master, a collaboration between London Contemporary Ballet Theatre and Robotic arms, in which the audience is called to join and modify patterns.

 

Independent - and hosted at Somerset House - Design Frontiers is a new format sponsored by Jaguard grouping more than 30 designer from every side of the world and other companies events like My Canvas, a Kvadrat exhibition of 19 designers on, ça va sans dire, fabrics.

 

 

TENT London is one of the East London destinations and hosts among its pletora of events also Textura the new focus on Polish Design (opening events on September 21).

 

 

The London Design Fair bets again on Shoreditch (the famous Design Triangle which hosts the highest number of shops and other spaces opened for the occasion but many others active all the year long) to open 10 exhibits and events at the spectacular Old Truman Brewery which is always the catalyst of a very eccentric Sunday Market where to find lots of the talents of tomorrow in fashion and design. At the Brewery there is also the exhibit of the Geffrey Museum dedicated to ceramic makers and an apartment totally designed and furnished under the direction of interior design magazine Warehouse Home. 

The fair invited also Sight Unseen to celebrate US contemporary design with Assembly in which to find 13 American designer with old and new pieces (on show also DAMM, Eric Trine, John Hogan, Studio Proba).

 

There will be also exhibits in the not so long ago activated district as the 3 years old Banskide where to find also a new CitizenM. More than 25 events are hosted in the consolidated Brompton Design District. It is worth a visit to the minor ones like Brixton with its Design Trial and the more surprising Islington or the more traditional Chelsea. Of course, also the most known Clerkwell which has its own design week out of the official London Design Week.

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