Design Week
100% Design
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100% Design
100% Design
Seasoned industry watchers will be eyeing this year’s 100% Design more closely than previous events. It was schemed and costed long before the economic indicators turned nasty, and how it responds to the ever darkening news could shape the design industry for some time to come.
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After a fashion
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EMERGING TRENDS ARE IN EVIDENCE IN CUTTING-EDGE NEW INTERIORS FROM BLOOMSBURY TO BANGKOK. FURNITURE DESIGN FOLLOWS SUIT WITH SOME INNOVATIVE IDEAS – HERE ARE A RANGE OF THE BEST - RETRO FUTURISM, MAKESHIFT, OUTDOORS , CRAFT & WABI SABI
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Are you experienced?
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IT’S BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE JAM DESIGN BEGAN CHAMPIONING THE IDEA OF BRAND ART AND EXPERIENCE, AND TODAY ITS ONCE BEWILDERING VOCABULARY IS COMMONPLACE. OR IS IT? HENRIETTA THOMPSON FINDS THAT THIS PARTICULAR WAVE IS JUST BREAKING
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Case study aaya
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FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT US HAKKASAN, LONDON’S LATEST EASTERN EATERY AAYA ESCHEWS THE STEREOTYPES IN FAVOUR OF A GROWN-UP TOKYO GLAMOUR
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Case study Liberty of London
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THE LIBERTY OF LONDON FLAGSHIP SPACE HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH A BOUTIQUE ART GALLERY THAN THE OPULENT MAXIMALISM OF ITS PARENT DEPARTMENT STORE
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Cold War Graphics
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The graphic story of the Cold War era is told through a series of posters. ‘They are vivid images’ is how David Crowley describes them, and a ‘powerful visual narrative of the age’. Many seem strikingly contemporary, such as a poster for the exhibition ‘USA Baut’ (1945) by the Bauhaus and Walter Gropius pupil Max Bill, while others seem eerily timeless.One such is a poster for the Marshall Plan, the US financing package to help rebuild Europe. Created by Gaston Van den Eynde ...
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Eastern treats
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What will newcomers South Korea an dThailand bring to 100% Design? Clare Dowdy looks forward to an infusion of traditional crafts - and some more Western-oriented work - from these two countries joining Japan on the international scene
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Exhibiting talent
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What do an award-winning graduate, a Cornish furniture company and a pair of Norwegian designers have in common? They’re all exhibiting at 100% Design. Trish Lorenz profiles three of this year’s most intriging entrants
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Future gazing
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100% Design remains the preferred launch pad for established designers, as well as fertile territory for spotting up-and-coming talent. 100% Futures retains an experimental energy, with both British and international designers opting to showcase at the ev
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Green light
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There’s more eco-friendly lighting than energy-saving light bulbs - sustainable materials and end-of-life recycling are also importan. But can saving the planet be combined with inspired lighting design?
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Insider
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Whisky chic: Penderyn Distillery, one of the smallest distilleries in the world, is located on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park on a spring of natural mineral water. As if that sentence didn’t make it sound attractive enough to warrant a visit
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Insider opinion
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DEYAN SUDJIC LOOKS FOR THE REASONS WHY LONDON IS ONCE AGAIN AT THE CENTRE OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN UNIVERSE – AND CONSIDERS ITS CHANCES OF STAYING THAT WAY
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Insider opinion
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STEPHEN BAYLEY LIKENS FLORENCE KNOLL’S INSIGHT TO THAT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MILES DAVIS, AND SAYS THAT, THANKS TO HER, THERE NEVER WILL BE BETTER FURNITURE THAN THAT MADE IN AMERICA BETWEEN VJ DAY AND JFK
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Insider opinion
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JEREMY MYERSON WELCOMES THE NEW OPEN-PLAN WORKPLACES THAT ENCOURAGE CREATIVE COLLABORATION – BUT URGES DESIGNERS TO REMEMBER THE NEED TO CONCENTRATE TOO
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Insight
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You do not expect the interior of a converted windmill to resemble a Vermeer-esque Dutch interior or a converted barn to be peopled by country bumpkins.
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Material playground
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If you haven’t come across phase-changing textiles, fish leather or shape-memory materials yet, this is your chance to get in the know. Trish Lorenz gets tactile with the stuff of the future - all on display at 100% Design
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Parallel pasts
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The space race and fears of nuclear Armageddon may have defined the pessimism of the Cold War era, but the designs of this period display optimism and yearning for modernity. A new exhibition takes apart this contradiction, says Pamela Buxton
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Plug and play
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THE NEED TO CREATE PHYSICAL SPACES THAT INCORPORATE SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ONLINE AREAS, AND ACT AS DESTINATIONS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, IS ONE OF THE INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST CHALLENGES
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Profile: Sam Baron
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As head of product design at Fabrica, Sam Baron is in the ideal environment to experiment and subvert expectations. Lynda Relph-Knight looks at the role this young Frenchman plays at the Benetton research group
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Sign of the times
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AS WE ARE ALWAYS BOMBARDED BY SIGNAGE EVERYWHERE WE TURN, BEN TERRETT ASKS HOW DESIGNERS CAN ADD VALUE TO WAYFINDING SYSTEMS
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Small wonders
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How do you kick-start the market for high-end kiddie furniture? Pamela Buxton recommends perfectly formed, scaled-down versions of classics
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Turn Turn Turn
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IN BRITAIN, THERE HAS BEEN A VAST GAP BETWEEN TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP AND MASS MANUFACTURE IN THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY FOR DECADES. ALEX HELLUM IS DEDICATED TO BRIDGING IT – WITH GOOD SOLID WOOD
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Whats on your mind?
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When we started out product launches were so exciting, but now we are working on a minimum of ten much bigger projects at any one time and we find that we are much less interested in trade fairs. There are so many of them, there’s always another one just around the corner. Tom LloydAs I get older, my desire to be seen out and about atevents is diminishing. You have to take the whole scene with a pinch of salt and the press can be as bad as it is good. We ...
