Dezeen promotion: this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week festival in London will present new item launches across four exhibitions from 19 to 21 May possibly.
CH24 chairs by Carl Hansen & Søn. Primary image: furnishings by Zeitraum
Set to return for its sixth edition, the event is spread over three days and will take spot at a variety of venues across the historic central London district of Clerkenwell.
4 important exhibitions will consider place alongside installations, open showrooms, and a series of talks focused on design and style and architecture.
Jean Prouvé chair by Vitra and G-Star RAW
The Farmiloe Building, a former Victorian merchant’s warehouse, will host the Layout Factory exhibition of new products by international manufacturers.
The Priory Church at the Buy of St John monastery will residence high-end decorative interior goods in an exhibition known as Detail.
Furniture by Baines&Fricker
Platform, committed to operate by emerging designers, will return to the Property of Detention – a decommissioned prison constructing – and the Additions showcase of tiny merchandise and add-ons will consider up residence in the Crypt on the Green at St James Church.
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More than 60 designers and brands such as Carl Hansen & Søn, Moroso, Vitra and Arper will host events and late openings at their showrooms in the region.
Loom furniture by H
For more info about the event and to register to attend for free, visit the Clerkenwell Style Week web site.
Right here are some additional specifics from the organisers:
Clerkenwell Layout Week (19-21 Might) returns for sixth edition
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 (19-21 Could) is set to create on the accomplishment of its preceding five editions with an impressive combine of cutting-edge installations, unique product launches and insights into modern style and architecture. The yearly festival will showcase the latest innovations by designers and producers from the United kingdom and around the world. Set against the historic backdrop of Clerkenwell, the 3-day festival will be centred on foremost design and style showrooms in the neighbourhood, as well as 4 exhibitions – Style Factory, Platform, Detail and Additions.
Chair by Thonet
Over 60 showrooms will be element of Clerkenwell Design and style Week 2015. New participants such as heritage brand Carl Hansen & Søn, Italian furnishings firm Moroso and modernist storage professional USM will be joined by lengthy-term international supporters including Vitra, Arper, Poltrona Frau, Knoll, Domus, Humanscale, Brunner and Kusch+Co.
Lamps by Curiousa & Curiousa
Carl Hansen & Søn will be opening its 1st London showroom in Clerkenwell, found at 16a Bowling Green Lane. Moroso will return to the 2015 festival. Its Clerkenwell showroom will host a Uk preview of its 2015 collections, including an unique furnishings task by David Adjaye, and an in-conversation session among the architect and Patrizia Moroso.
Bowl by Taz Pollard
Swiss manufacturer Vitra will also return to CDW 2015 with a retrospective on the lifestyle and performs of architect Jean Prouve, showcasing a new extension to its Prouve RAW collection. Anticipate a series of interesting and engaging events in its Clerkenwell showroom in the course of the festival.
Light by Louise Tucker
To mark the 50th anniversary of its iconic LC assortment while commemorating 50 many years given that Le Corbusier’s death, Cassina will present LC50, a reissue of the unique 1960s collection comprising modern styles by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand at the Poltrona Frau showroom.
Furniture by Pinch
Clerkenwell Design and style Week’s properly-established exhibitions provide a real breadth of product innovation, from top worldwide brands to emerging design and style studios. The largest of these style-led destinations is the Style Factory at the Farmiloe Building, featuring four floors of established contemporary interiors brands, the two from the United kingdom and overseas.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Pinch will return to the festival and launch its Avery barstool, a rigorously easy design and style realised in English oak, even though German furniture maker Zeitraum will unveil its M11 timber framed table by Mathias Hahn.
Merchandise by Hjem
New to the Style Factory this year contain Thonet with the United kingdom debut of its 808 lounge chair by Formstelle H, which will launch its 2015 assortment by Hierve Baines&Fricker, which will come to the festival with two new furnishings ranges, SB01 Ply and BF02 Pew and begin up firm TedWood, founded by designer maker Ted Jefferies, launching a new selection of furniture and lighting patterns.
The Lighting Factory, a dedicated lighting floor, will also return to the venue. Curiousa and Curiousa will launch a new assortment of hand-blown glass pendants available in slate grey, smoked olive and aubergine, while Occhio will current its newest selection which includes the Lei light, the first shade luminaire with adjustable radiance holding two luminaires in one particular. Other lighting brand names that will exhibit at Clerkenwell Layout Week include Artemide, Prandina, Catellani & Smith, Secto, SCP Contracts and Mullan Lighting.
Cabin by Out of the Valley
Platform at the Home of Detention has established itself as the area to spot up-and-coming layout talent for the duration of Clerkenwell Design Week. These contain Louise Tucker, a Chelsea School of Art graduate whose fascination with weaving wood veneer led her to launching Pren, a sculptural lighting collection that will take its name from the Welsh for wood.
Out of the Valley is yet another design begin up, the brainchild of designer maker Rupert McKelvie. With knowledge in creating and constructing bespoke cabins for off-grid living, Out of the Valley will launch its 1st furniture assortment inspired by this back to nature ethos.
Brass mirror by Tiipoi
The majestic Priory Church at the Purchase of St John is residence to Detail, the area to head to for higher-finish decorative interior products. The church’s garden will be furnished with Cane-line’s most recent outside furniture, complemented by a Champagne Jaquart bar.
Newcomer London-primarily based design studio Tiipoi will unveil its Mirror six collection at Detail, an exclusive variety of cast metal wall-mounted and hand held mirrors manufactured by a regional household in Kerala, inspired by the unique Mirror six. Furnishings maker Jonathan Baring will showcase his hand crafted oak and ebony cabinet, as properly as his orange cracked gesso and nickel console table.
Chair by Cassina
Soon after last year’s debut, Additions – which is offered above to tiny design and style-led pieces and add-ons at the Crypt on the Green at St James Church – will return for 2015. New exhibitors incorporate France-primarily based HJEM, which will launch a assortment of design-aware homewares and papergoods British surface designer and illustrator Kelly Hatt, who will showcase a assortment of aluminium etched illustrations, inspired by scuffs, scratches and graffiti found on public transport ceramicist Taz Pollard, who will debut her new tableware selection with a playful style and Wael Seaiby, who has just lately been named by Layout Council as a single of its 70 ‘Ones to Watch’.
Table by Kelly Hatt
CDW Presents, the festival’s commission and set up programme, will return showcasing unique projects and street installations by established and emerging names from the style and architecture worlds, stationed across all places of Clerkenwell. As component of the Fringe series, neighborhood innovative practices, from architects to branding agencies and craft studios, will host workshops and displays open to the public in the course of the festival. This wider programme consists of a new venue at The Outdated Sessions House on Clerkenwell Green, internet hosting Icon’s House of Culture.
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