3.9.13

London Design Festival 2013 - Themes and Trends

Just a few days before the opening of this most important design event in UK we already have some impressions about the themes and trends that are expected to be seen at London Design Festival 2013:
  • growing interesrt in modern crafts, but at the same time 'avoiding the pitfall of slipping into rustic pastime pastiche'
Obelix hand-made stoneware by Norwegian Designer Kristine Five Melvær

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Galvin Brothers - (Perfectly) Imperfect Stool
  • all things geometric + optical illusion:
Ettore, Be+Have, Stand G17, Hall T1, Tent London 2012 www.beplushave.com
Ettore, Be+Have
  • metallics - the real ones and also all things bright and shiny
Erica Wakerly’s Block wallpaper
Lars Beller Fjetland’s New Cloche Lamp
  Cloche Lamp by Lars Beller Fjetland 

This not a new trend - I have published about it several times, especially about the obsession with copper, which is one of my favourite metals.
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