Vegetal Identity showed an innovative way of introducing greenery to vertical surfaces at Maison & Objet. Plants are preserved using a special stabilisation technique giving supple and fresh looking greenery without any maintenance issues. I love the mix of mosses and ferns in these pieces with their variations of colour and texture. The whole thing is biodegradable so, if you want […]
Vegetal Identity’s vertical greenery
Tape Gear accessories
I met Daniel at the Tape Gear stand during Maison & Objet where he told me about their collection of cork and recycled textile covers for those small sleek bits of technology now essential to so many of us: i-pad, i-pod, i-phone, tablet, laptop, Kindle… I really like the fact that it’s an indie music company that teamed […]
Hollywood Costume at the V&A
Aah, the V & A really is one of my favourite museums. Its latest exhibition Hollywood Costume has already proven to be a blockbuster so catch it if you can before the end of January. Give yourself enough time though – it took us over 2 hours get around and we weren’t dawdling. I particularly enjoyed reading about the research and collaboration […]
Mint London for contemporary design
I’ve been meaning to write about Mint for a long time and, now that they have sent me some photos, I can as this shop is one of the best places in London to view the work of contemporary makers. The images here are from the show I visited during the London Design Festival. They were still setting up […]
Community21 projects at 100% Design
I was really interested to see the Community 21 stand at 100% Design as their projects address sustainability and localism in design. Nick Gant of Brighton University gave me a quick overview of their stand illustrating recent projects. Here are a few of them. Nick and colleague Tanya Dean worked on Flipflopsam and jetsam, a project creating footwear made by locals from plastic collected from their local beach. […]
Arthur Analts’ latest products at 100% Design
You may have read about Arthur Analts from my piece on his money bowls at Clerkenwell earlier this year. I met up with him again at 100% Design to see his latest products. He showed Amid, a modular mesh screen this time with components placed either horizontally or vertically. I can see this working really well in […]