the award-winning designjunction is delighted to announce their return to the spectacular king’s cross site during the london design festival (19 – 22 september 2019). now in its ninth year, designjunction has proven itself to be the most anticipated exhibition of the festival, attracting over 27,000 visitors across five days in 2018. this year, designjunction will present a curated mix of over 200 world-renowned furniture, lighting, accessory and technology brands alongside pop-up shops, installations, temporary structures and major brand activations.
king’s cross is london’s new creative neighborhood, home to 67 acres of inspiring businesses and outstanding architecture, destination restaurants and a vibrant cultural scene – a lively place in central london to visit day and night. the area’s industrial past has inspired the 50 new and repurposed buildings; the public spaces between them are a mix of parks, streets, squares, and gardens, with granary square and its fountains as a heart.
canadian designer matthew mccormick is proud to present avalanche, a temporary installation at the victoria & albert museum for the 2019 london design festival. a highly experiential exhibit, the installation seeks to fuel thoughtful introspection on the effects of climate change through the artist’s interpretation of what it feels when trapped inside a torrential snow slide – a tangible result of our planet’s fluctuating weather conditions.
a nod to the chaos and power driven by mother nature on our environment, mccormick marries light with material within an imposing, seamlessly executed box at the v&a conspicuously located on the landing of the british gallery. the exterior exhibit highlights mccormick’s contemporary design ethos in the classically historic space, making it impossible to ignore. from within, it is a hybrid between an interactive reflection chamber and an artistic metaphor representing a skewed sense of scale and reality. more specifically, it is a designer’s interpretation of a suspended moment in time where visitors are caught in an avalanche and faced with a mindful revelation of their own mortality.
london design festival celebrates and promotes london as the design capital of the world. the festival returns to venues and institutes across the city from 14-22 september 2019.
[ the design districts ] are a key component of the festival makeup with each design district constituting a cluster of events within a short walking distance of each other, enabling visitors to navigate the 400 events and geography of the city.
victoria and albert museum
55 cromwell road, london
for the finale of london design festival at the v&a, the museum will host a special event on exhibition road focusing on design solutions to the climate emergency.
together with the design museum,natural history museum, science museum, imperial college london and brompton design district, the v&a will host a street celebration to look at the role design thinking can play in fostering new ideas and changing attitudes to the way we consume food, use energy and deal with waste.
saatchi gallery
king’s road, duke of york’s hq, london
porro 30 years of purity
pure shapes and vibrant finishes: come to discover the extraordinary mastery of porro, the italian factory bridging traditional craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology, through the most iconic pieces designed by piero lissoni in his 30 years of art direction.
i-made italian manufacture art & design exhibition presented at saatchi gallery.
the award-winning designjunction is delighted to announce their return to the spectacular king’s cross site during the london design festival (19 – 22 september 2019). now in its ninth year, designjunction has proven itself to be the most anticipated exhibition of the festival, attracting over 27,000 visitors across five days in 2018. this year, designjunction will present a curated mix of over 200 world-renowned furniture, lighting, accessory and technology brands alongside pop-up shops, installations, temporary structures and major brand activations.
continuing its tradition of hosting designer talks in it’s exquisitely designed king’s road showroom for the past two london design festivals; a programme which to-date has involved a number of prolific designers including bethan laura wood, patricia urquiola, federico pepe and cc-tapis, for this year’s show silvera is delighted to announce that it will play host to an intimate talk with globally-acclaimed designer and architect paola navone on monday 16th september.
for london design festival 2019, and celebrating her ongoing relationship with renowned italian design house, baxter, navone will discuss the process behind the many number of iconic products and spaces which have been born out of her fifteen year collaboration with the brand.
chaired by design editor becky sunshine, the talk will look back at navone’s extraordinary career and the cultural influences that have shaped her work. inspired by her travels all over the world, particularly to asia and africa, navone is widely recognized as a global designer. navone will also delve into the themes explored in her recent book tham ma da: the adventurous interiors of paola navone, exploring how she incorporates ‘tham ma da’, the thai concept which takes something ordinary and presents it in a new and exciting way, in her projects and design pieces.
as a stockist of baxter furniture, including a number of pieces which navone has designed for the brand, silvera will present a never-before-seen baxter showcase across its ground floor.
monday 16th september
arrival: 5.30pm
talk starts: 6pm
aperitivo: from 6.45pm until late
after the recent collaboration for the fuorisalone 2019, alpi and the designer martino gamper go back to work together for the london design festival, one of the main international events in the design world.
the company, leader in the production of decorative surfaces in reconstituted wood veneer, contributes to the realization of the exclusive site-specific installation disco carbonara designed by gamper, on display from 14 to 22 september 2019 at king’s cross. the new london creative district will be, for the first time this year, a design district of the festival, becoming part of the most interesting addresses in london for design and architecture.
disco carbonara is conceived by gamper as a playful temporary gateway to the new coal drops yard commercial center. for this project, the designer has expressly chosen reclaimed alpi wood to cover the entire structure – 10 m long and about 8 m high – composed of a fake colored façade that evokes in an entirely new way the lively atmospheres of the discos.
by selecting waste elements that can no longer be used in production, gamper perfectly reveals his modus operandi of deconstruction and re-contextualization of the existing, with the aim of restoring new life and value to a “forgotten” material and exploring its extraordinary potential. the combinations of chromatic tones and variegated textures give shape to a highly scenographic geometric composition that reveals the unusual expressive language of the designer and his imaginative poetics.
“disco carbonara” installation by martino gamper
14 – 22 september 2019
coal drops yard,
king’s cross, n1c
london
this september, tom dixon introduces TouchySmellyFeelyNoisyTasty at his hub in king’s cross. the coal office will become a multi-sensory lab with a series of talks, workshops, events and parties taking place in the shop, factory, restaurant and gallery.
for the first time, king’s cross will be an official ldf design district and is set to be one of the top destinations during the festival with an array of exciting events and activities open to the public.
in the ‘touchy feely’ arch located in the shop, tom dixon’s design research studio will partner with men’s care brand harry’s to create a razor bar that draws on the sensory tactility of shaving. the razor bar will be open to the public and will offer by-invitation grooming services. ten limited edition razor handles that have been co-designed by both brands will also be on display.
monday – saturday 10am till 8pm
thursday 10am till 9pm
sunday 11am till 5pm
press preview thursday 19th september (8.30am till 11.30am)
tom dixon studio
the coal office
1 bagley walk, kings cross
london
n1c 4pq
in occasion of the upcoming edition of the london design festival (14-22 september 2019), salvatori presents finding forms, an occasion to celebrate john pawson’s latest collection for the brand and reveal designer elisa ossino’s reimagining of the flagship on wigmore street.
on tuesday 17 september at 6.30pm, john pawson will join gabriele salvatori, ceo of salvatori, in a panel discussion moderated by kuchar swara of port magazine to discuss the role of natural stone in contemporary design. the talk will be followed by a cocktail reception, see invite below.
panel discussion
tuesday 17 september at 6.30pm
followed by a cocktail reception from 7.30pm to 9pm
salvatori showroom
26 wigmore st, marylebone, london w1u 2rl
showroom open to the public
monday 16 – saturday 21 september, from 10am to 5.30pm daily
waugh thistleton architects and arup have collaborated with the american hardwood export council to create multiply, an interactive modular maze-like installation in the sackler courtyard at the v&a.
the pavilion confronts two of the age’s biggest challenges – the need for housing and the urgency to fight climate change – and presents the fusion of modular systems and sustainable construction materials as a possible solution.
the permeable structure is built from a reusable cross-laminated timber (clt) panel system made of 60cbm of american tulipwood. director andrew waugh says it will show that modular architecture can provide not only efficient solutions but also enjoyable experiences: “the structure will lead people a merry dance up and down staircases and across bridges exploring space and light.” waugh thistleton joins an illustrious list of architects who have collaborated with ahec and arup on landmark projects for ldf. “waugh thistleton has been pioneering innovative uses of wood in construction for decades,” says david venables, ahec’s european director. “multiply explores a new, more sustainable way of building, bringing together a readily available carbon-negative material – american tulipwood – with modular design.”
the project is also a chance to highlight the structural and aesthetic properties of clt, adds carolina bartram, lead project director at arup. “there is increasing topical discourse on the use of clt as a material of choice for commercial and residential development. multiply provides a fabulous opportunity to showcase how advances in timber technology, together with a focus on modularity and efficiency, means we should embrace timber for future developments.”
multiply is carbon neutral: all carbon emissions due to hardwood extraction and processing, together with fabrication and installation of the structure and all transport stages, are offset by the carbon stored in the finished structure and the energy generated by incineration of process wood waste.
designed by waugh thistleton architects, supported by the american hardwood export council and engineered by arup.
with special thanks to: allegheny wood products, baillie lumber co., bingaman lumber inc., boss lumber co, classic american hardwoods, collins hardwood, latham timber, northland forest products, northwest hardwoods, parton lumber and thompson hardwoods inc.
further support from: seam, atrium, construction scotland innovation centre (csic), glenalmond timber and stage one.
please feed the lions is an interactive sculpture in trafalgar square by artist and designer es devlin, who is known for her innovative projection-mapped sculptures that fuse light, music and technology.
the project follows a year-long collaboration between es devlin and google arts & culture. exploring the parameters of design and artificial intelligence, the installation incorporates a deep learning algorithm developed by ross goodwin, creative technologist at google. following the festival, the sculpture will be digitised as part of an online exhibition on google arts & culture so people all over the world can experience the groundbreaking artwork.
cast in 1867, the four monumental lions in trafalgar square have been sitting as silent british icons at the base of nelson’s column for the past 150 years. overnight on monday 17 september, a fifth fluorescent red lion will join the pride, facing northwards towards the national gallery. this new lion will not be silent: it roars poetry, and the words it roars will be chosen by the public. everyone is invited to “feed the lion”, but this lion only eats words.
by daylight, the ever-evolving collective poem will be shown on leds embedded in the mouth of the lion. by night, the poem will be projection-mapped over the lion and onto nelson’s column itself: a beacon of streaming text that invites others to join in and add their voice.
devlin says the idea for the sculpture was prompted by a walk through trafalgar square with ldf chairman sir john sorrell during last year’s festival. “he said: ‘landseer never wanted those lions to look so passive; he proposed a much more animated stance, but queen victoria found it too shocking.’ the thought lodged in my mind. what if we could invest the lion with a diversely crowd-sourced collective poetic voice?”
in collaboration with: google arts & culture
supported by: the space
further support: luke halls studio and res.lab
the exhibition illustrates the breadth of work and scale of achievement of each of the four winners across the categories of london design, design innovation, emerging design and lifetime achievement.
visitors are invited to room 55, clore study area to explore each designer’s work, in an exhibition curated and designed by okolo.
this year’s exhibition, inspired by the idea of a card house, will guide visitors through texts, images, illustrations, prototypes, materials and objects, narrating the creative story of each designer. designers will be presented not just as creative individuals, but in the context of their creative world, understanding their signature styles, and exploring the influences behind their work.
the 2018 medal winners
panerai london design medal: hussein chalayan
lifetime achievement medal supported by fortnum & mason: eva jiricna
design innovation medal supported by sap: neri oxman
emerging design medal supported by storey: grace wales bonner
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