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home: event [ London Design Biennale 2018 ]

home: event [ London Design Biennale 2018 ]

Back again this year at Somerset House, the London Design Biennale will let you explore the best design, architecture, writers and artists, including energing talents.

‘The 2018 London Design Biennale is devoted to the theme, Emotional States. Taking over the entirety of Somerset House, including The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court and River Terrace, it will explore big questions and ideas about sustainability, migration, pollution, energy, cities, and social equality. Visitors will enjoy engaging and interactive installations, innovations, artworks and proposed design solutions – all in an immersive, inspiring and entertaining tour of the world‘

Sept 4-23

£19.50

somersethouse.org.uk

home: event [ pottery exhibition ]

home: event [ In Design pottery exhibition ]

As part of this year’s Design Festival, the London Potters will be showcasing 10 designers work over two weekends. Explore tableware, decorative pieces and jewellery, on 13-16th and 20-23rd September at Grosvenor Arch, Circus Village West, Battersea Power Station, London SW11 8AH.

Free entry

They say;

We’re delighted to be hosting two selected showcase selling events as part of this year’s London Design Festival.  We’ll be open over two weekends with 10 different exhibitors each week. Explore a diverse range of ceramics from tableware to decorative objects, ceramic jewellery and striking one-off collectors’ pieces, all reflecting the wide use of clay in design.

Over the two weekends of London Design Festival, visitors to In Design @ Battersea can take part in an interactive ceramic activity to create a growing modelled installation, inspired by the surrounding cityscape area of Battersea Power Station. We hope the public will contribute and enjoy the creative experience, learning new clay skills and observing the surroundings in closer detail.

home: event [ Japan House ]

home: event [ Japan House ]

Head to Kensington, London to explore this retail, exhibition space focusing on all things Japanese.

‘Presenting the very best of Japanese art, design, gastronomy, innovation, and technology, it deepens our appreciation of all that Japan has to offer. Part of a global initiative led by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are two other Japan Houses in Los Angeles and São Paulo’

‘The varied offer includes an exhibition gallery, a theatre, a fine-dining Japanese restaurant and a retail floor of thoughtfully curated Japanese products. This is complemented by a diverse line-up of exhibitions, events, workshops, and seminars‘

japanhouselondon.uk

home: event [ Awestruck exhibition ]

home: event [ Awestruck exhibition ]

This week long exhibition get us thinking about the connection between interior design and wellbeing.

The interesting idea of Biophilia is explored through workshops, talks and sensory experiences.

‘Biophilia is the innate human affinity we have with nature and the outdoors; literally, it means “love of life or living systems‘

For more information head to eventbrite.co.uk

30th July – 3rd Aug

Craftwork Studios, London

[ free ]

home: event [ lustrous surfaces ]

home: event [ lustrous surfaces ]

Connecting well to the current Eastern interiors trend (featured on Friday), we love this exhibition at the V&A – Lustrous Surfaces.

Featuring 110 objects located throughout the Museum, including shrines, chests and rare Latin American examples, this display highlights the varied manufacturing techniques, surface treatments, decorative styles and application around the world.

This free exhibition runs til September.

home: event [ Collect ]

home: event [ Collect ]

Now in its 14th year the Saatchi gallery, London is hosting the Collect exhibition. In association with the Crafts Council this show looks at how we explore crafts throughout the world and how we see them in the future.

‘Collect brings together 39 galleries from four continents for a celebration of making, extraordinary in both scale and scope. Museum-quality works and installations from hundreds of the most talented makers in the UK, USA, South Korea, Japan, France, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden will offer visitors and collectors a multidisciplinary overview of the people, processes, materials and ideas defining international craft in 2018’

22nd – 25th Feb 2018

Tickets available from craftscouncil.org.uk

home: event [ Christmas past at Geffrye Museum ] 

home: event [ Christmas past at Geffrye Museum ] 

Step back in time with historic interiors given the festive overhaul. See how real people decorated their homes at Christmas at the exhibition running from November to January at the Geffrye Museum in East London. Get inspired for your home with period details from Christmas Past 

FREE ENTRY 
Information; 

The Geffrye is in Hoxton, East London. Admission to the museum is free.

The nearest Overground and Underground stations are Hoxton, Liverpool Street and Old Street. 

Opening hours

Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm

Bank Holiday Mondays 10am – 5pm

Closed Mondays (unless Bank Holiday), Good Friday, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day

The period gardens and herb garden will close for winter at 5pm Sunday 29 October. The front gardens are open until 5pm all year round

The café is open until 4.45pm

The shop is open during museum hours

Exciting news … We are about to embark on a transformational £18m development project – Unlocking the Geffrye – which will mean the museum will close on 7 January 2018 for almost two years. Although the main museum building and period gardens will be closed, there will still be plenty of reasons to come to the Geffrye. Throughout closure we will run a busy programme of events, activities and installations in our front gardens. The restored almshouse will also be open for tours on certain dates throughout the year.

home: event [ Plywood: Material of the Modern World ]

home: event [ Plywood: Material of the Modern World ]

This new exhibition at the V&A museum, London is a must see for design fans, particular wood lovers. This new exhibiton explores the rise of plywood in manufacturing and design, from planes to chairs.

This fascinating show is divided into three sections by significant moments in production history of the material. The invention of the rotary vaneer cutter, the indroduction of moulding techniques to form modern furniture and the advent of digital technology and cutting.

Showing now until 12 November 2017 [ free entry ]

Vam.ac.uk

home: event [ California ] 

home: event [ California ]

Beginning the 1960’s this new exhibition at the Design Museum, London explores the rise of product design and advertising in America and the infuence California has globaly.

‘While California’s mid-century modernism is well documented, this is the first exhibition to examine its current global reach. Picking up the storyin the 1960s, the exhibition charts the journey from the counterculture to Silicon Valley’s tech culture’

Tickets are £16

Designmuseum.org

home: event [ Clerkenwell Design Week ]

home: event [ Clerkenwell Design Week ]

Back for it’s 8th year Clerkenwell Design Week is the place to be to see the latest in architecture and design through exhibitions, installations and showrooms.

‘Clerkenwell is home to more creative businesses and architects per square mile than anywhere else on the planet, making it truly one of the most important design hubs in the world’

For all the exhibits and to register head to Clerkenwelldesignweek.com