This year celebrating their 16th birthday, Earls Court’s 100% Design London is the creative trade show from which the London Design Festival was spawned – and, even today, is a hub of creative talent from around the world. Last week we had the chance to spend a few hours checking out all that was on... Read more...

One of the best things about London Design Festival is the voyeuristic delight of gaining access to some of the world’s top designers’ studios and, last Thursday, following a few hours at Earls Court’s 100% Design, we had the opportunity of popping along to the Fulham studio of internationally renowned Swiss designer Rolf Sachs. Read more...

Inspired by the increasingly unimaginative and utilitarian approach to modern public furniture, Spitalfields interiors store, The Lollipop Shoppe, invited 11 influential furniture designers – the likes of JDS Architects, Freshwest and Decode – to create 11 distinctive, innovative and remarkably unique versions of the humble bench. Read more...

With so much high-end design, from the industry’s leading names, being showcased throughout this year’s London Design Festival it’s perhaps somewhat of a surprise that an East London collective would even contemplate the idea of an inspired retail space, stocked with inspired product, that offers everything for, well, a ‘quid’… yet that’s exactly what they’ve... Read more...

Launched at the beginning of this year in Paris, Acne’s debut furniture collection – a range of sofas and armchairs based upon Carl Malmsten’s 1949 icon, the New Berlin Sofa – is being shown this week at London’s iconic Liberty department store. The first time the collection has been shown in the UK in it’s... Read more...

Of all the things we took in on our London Design Festival explorations yesterday, The Applounge was perhaps the most inspirational – certainly in terms of pushing the boundaries of what we perceive to be a traditional retail space. Offering a well-curated selection of physical product – some rather lovely iPhone and iPad cases, watches... Read more...

Somewhat of a gothic styled, forest campsite situated in a warehouse, this utterly unique pop-up restaurant and exhibition – situated at the Londonewcastle Depot on Wenlock Road – is sure to be one London Design Festival’s most inspired dining destinations. Imagined and realised by a “creative team of Finnish designers and food visionaries”, Hel Yes! brings together... Read more...