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London Design Festival 2012: The Joy of Living
Official charity partner for designjunction, Maggie's provides emotional, practical and social support for people with cancer and their families and friends, from striking buildings designed by top architects in the grounds of specialist cancer hospitals. They believe in the power of design and architecture to positively affect people's well-being.
Modular Furniture You Can Arrange The Way You Want: Hocky by Marcin Wielgosz
Hocky is not your average seating collection - it's ridiculously smart. Designed by Marcin Wielgosz of Merely, Hocky is made of various sized segments of sofas and chairs with integrated tables that you can pick and choose to form the configuration you want.
London Design Festival 2012: Dementia Music Box by Chloe Meineck
Chloe Meineck spent two years conducting research into the positive effect familiar music can have for those with dementia - listening to music from certain periods of their lives can help trigger even their most inaccessible memories. She was driven to act on her findings and so created this gorgeous music box.
Electrolux Design Lab 2012 Finalists
The Electrolux Design Lab began in 2003 as an annual competition for all students of industrial design to develop future household appliance ideas. Celebrating their 10th year, Electrolux Design Lab asked the students to design concepts that reflect more of a sensory experience and that they did.
Hatcham by Samuel Wilkinson
Hatcham is a minimal design created by Samuel Wilkinson for Decode London. Wilkinson is a graduate of Ravensboure College of Art & Design. He has won several awards including the RSA award and D&AD New Blood. The brief was to create a beautiful wooden stackable chair. The design has classically simple proportions in order to let the details create its identity.
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LYHTY Lighted Indoor/Outdoor Tent by Erkko Aarti
Helsinki-based designer Erkko Aarti came up with a way to beat the long, dark months that last throughout the winter in Finland. It's called LYHTY - a tent-like space that can be placed in public spaces or even somewhere in your house. The structure has light built into the frame to make the inside (and the outside) glow.
Swing Table by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London
You might remember when we posted about this in concept form a couple of years ago. Well, now it's a reality and it's even better than we imagined. Designed by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London, the four-poster table suspends eight chairs and a light from its frame. For anyone who wants to put some fun into a boring business meeting or some excitement into mealtimes, the Swing Table is the way to go.
London Design Festival 2012: 100% Design Interiors
All eyes were on 100% Design at this year's London Design Festival. Under new ownership and with a new director, the hype had begun months previously and continued right up to the moment we entered the rather spectacular entrance, designed by London agency Shaw + Skirm. In its 18th year, this predominantly trade show seems to have found its feet again. Here are our top picks from the Interiors Section.
Plant The Fence by Andrea Rekalidis Design
Andrea Rekalidis' design, Plant The Fence, takes the iconic picket fence and scales it back to be almost sketch-like. At first glance, it looks like a graphic cartoon drawing of a fence but then you realize it's actually a real fence. In place of wood, a row of metal gridded "planks" line up to be planted directly in the ground or into pots.
London Design Festival 2012: designjunction
designjunction was one of the most exciting shows of London Design Festival. The venue alone was enough to look forward to. Built in the 1960s by the Ministry of Works as a Royal Mail Sorting Office, it became largest in the UK in the 90s before closing down. Since then it has been used for everything from an illegal rave in October 2010, to an Alexander McQueen fashion show earlier this year. The design had a lot to live up to. Luckily it didn't disappoint.