Tag Archives: London Design Festival 2011

22/09

Tracey Neuls by Faudet-Harrison

Pioneering footwear designer Tracey Neuls scheduled the opening of her east London store to coincide with the London Design Festival, and to mark the occasion equally daring British designers Faudet-Harrison were appointed to create a fresh interior that would be appropriate for the edgy new Redchurch Street location.

The interior of dark wooden floors and white walls is minimally fit out with a mix of new and recycled customised furnishings; a vintage footstool topped with a chest of shoebox drawers being one of the most interesting pieces. The result is an undertated but bold interior that forms a welcome addition to a street of galleries and cafes.

Faudet-Harrison said: “the Furniture and products produced are centred around rituals of shoes and getting ready, all have an element of altered and restored found object married with new materials giving each piece a revised function.”

(Images via Dezeen)

21/09

Size + Matter by David Chipperfield

The London Design Festival never fails to transform an already interesting city into a treasure trove of installations. This year, in true form, it features designs by big names in architecture and design, with David Chipperfield Architects’ design for Size + Matter one of the most notable.

Size + Matter pairs designers with materials / manufacturing processes so that the dynamics between design and materiality can be explored. This year’s material is Sefar Architecture Vision fabric, a metal-coated fabric mesh sandwiched between two sheets of glass to give a translucent / reflective effect that is black on one side and metallic on the the other.

This unusual material has been used by the architects to create a sculptural pavilion that plays with the orientation of the different surfaces of the glass to make full use of both it’s translucent and reflective qualities. Unframed laminated glass panels create simple vertical elements that visitors can move through, each time having a different experience depending on time of day and levels of activity.

The delicate, complementing relationship between the installation and its host site, the Royal Festival Hall, becomes apparent both in the designers drawings and in the physical manifestation of the design.

(Images via Dezeen)