Celebrate Design at Somerset House!
This year we are delighted to partner with Somerset House, one of the capital's most beloved centres for arts and culture, to welcome a brand new destination for design during the Festival.
Head to Somerset House during the Festival for new product launches, exciting exhibitions featuring the best international design talent, innovative installations, stimulating events and much more! See below for details. |
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Packed with design exhibitions, events and product launches, you could happily while away a day taking in all Somerset House has to offer. Within its historical surrounds, explore displays by 10 internationally-renowned designers in the West Wing Galleries, find out what Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have up their sleeves for Samsung and see the power of social media in action with the results of a competition held with Twitter UK.
One of the must-sees at Somerset House is the British Land Celebration of Design Award Winners Exhibition, which opens today. While medals have been awarded since 2007, this year marks the first time key works by the four award-winners are showcased in an exhibition. MORE |
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Ten Designers in the West Wing
The West Wing Galleries
To mark our partnership with Somerset House, we launch an exhibition of the work of ten celebrated designers, showcasing the best in contemporary design and production. The designers are Alex Rasmussen, Arik Levy, Barber & Osgerby, Faye Toogood, Luca Nichetto, Jasper Morrison, nendo, Patternity, Ross Lovegrove and Tino Schaedler. |
Serif
The River Rooms
Bouroullec x Samsung
Renowned Paris based designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have exclusively partnered with Samsung to create Samsung Serif TV – a television that is set to challenge the way we view its standing in the domestic environment. Samsung Serif TV does not belong to the world of technology but the world of furniture and design. |
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#PoweredByTweets
Terrace Rooms
Supported by Twitter UK
If you mainly use Twitter to get news updates or share professional gossip, find out how Twitter can be used to 'solve a problem' or 'create something beautiful' with the results of #PoweredByTweets, an open design competition held earlier this year.
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Max Lamb: My Gandfather's Tree
The Embankment Galleries - Mezzanine & Studio
Supported by Gallery FUMI
After an ancient ash on his grandfather's farm had to be felled, designer Max Lamb gave it a new lease of life as a series of stools, tables and chairs. 130 logs will be arranged in an installation at Somerset House, telling the story of the tree and its roots.
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The British Land Celebration of Design Award Winners Exhibition
The Courtyard Rooms
Chosen by an eminent selection committee of design figures, this year The British Land Celebration of Design Awards are awarded in four categories. For the first time an exhibition of work by winners will be on display at Somerset House. |
Spine
Stamp Stair, South Wing
Design Engineer Nassia Inglessis has created a unique installation, drawing parallels between our own physiology and the technological environment in which we live to celebrate the launch of the new dimmable Plumen 002 LED low energy bulb. |
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| Special Events at the V&A and Late Night Opening at Chelsea Design Quarter |
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Bringing some of the industry's biggest and brightest names to the London Design Festival for a series of one-off Masterclasses, the Global Design Forum continues today with star British design duo, Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby. Register here.
Today the V&A wraps up its five-month exhibition, 'What is Luxury?', with a day of talks on the same subject. Join in on a half-day symposium looking at the future of luxury materials, skills and environments. Later in the day, designer Kim Thomé talks about the material challenges of his new installation Zotem, created with Swarovski for the Festival, and Pearlfisher looks at the increasing trend for premiumisation and how brands are bridging the gap between luxury and mass market.
Tonight is also the late night opening for the Chelsea Design Quarter. Showrooms will stay open late, with a fantastic programme of design-led activities including talks and meet-the-designer events. |
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Product and Industrial
Contemporary craft furniture brand Another Country celebrates five years with a collection by guest designers, each responding to the company's home country of Dorset. Driade presents an extended range of its eclectic products, and John Lewis Oxford Street launch their newly refurbished home department.
The London Transport Museum opens the doors to its Acton Depot with a weekend of events on 26 and 27 September. Over at 100% Design, Italian company antoniolupi show off their latest products for the bathroom and BuzziSpace bring silence and style to the office with their functional workspace designs. MORE |
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Architecture
13 RIBA architects have paired off with Regent Street retailers to create beguiling architectural installations for the RIBA Regent Street Windows Project. LANDSCAPE, the UK's leading trade event for garden designers and landscape professionals returns to Battersea Evolution. Architecture studio Matter of Stuff presents an exhibition showing the concepts behind the work of its roster of European designers at The Hospital Club.
The Building Centre tackles the housing crisis with open-source designs in 41: a house for London. Gold Mantis hosts an in-office exhibition of past large-scale interior design projects across China. New Armani/Dada kitchen designs are on show at the Unifor showroom at Ergonom. Curated by Workshop for Potential Design, an exhibition on the potential of fragmentary information is at Sir John Soane's Museum. MORE |
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Craft, Glass and Ceramic
Mud Australia launches the opening of its flagship UK store with a one-off installation of their 100% handmade range of coloured porcelain, while Native & Co celebrate their first anniversary with an Exploration of Japanese Carpentry. At the Venetia Studium showroom, pallucco present their new blown glass and fibreglass lamps.
Finnish designer Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä goes Wild in The City with 60 life-sized ceramic foxes placed around East London - finders keepers! Ally Capellino collaborates with artist Dilion Howling on new tubular sculptures to show off the AW15 collection. Craft maker Nazanin Kamali exhibits her one-of-a-kind textils inspired by cultural mythology and melancholia. White Conduit Projects explores the colour blue in Meaning of Blue. MORE |
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| Enter our competitions for the chance to win the latest Montblanc M fountain pen designed by Marc Newson; a one year V&A Membership for you plus a guest; an Ashley Rucksack by Ally Capellino; a one night stay for two people at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street hotel; a Speedball Deluxe Screen Printing Kit with a copy of the book Low-Tech Print by Caspar Williams in collaboration with Cass Art; and a heavy metal light pendant with a Buster LED Light Bulb and a mix set Candle Holder with Buster + Punch. |
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| The London Design Festival 2015 is supported by: |
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