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During London Design Week, Places and Spaces' pop-up shop features at designjunction 2012.

The show takes place at The Sorting Office, 
21-31 New Oxford Street, 
London WC1A 1BA
.

Opening Times
19 September 
3pm - 9pm
20 September 
10am - 7pm

21 & 22 September 
10am - 6pm

23 September
 10am - 5pm

Now in its second year, designjunction has cemented its reputation for showcasing the finest selection of international design brands. This year designjunction welcomes the Tramshed into the event to create an even more powerful showcase for design in London’s largest non-purpose built event space.
Three floors, across an impressive 120,000 sq ft. space, will be devoted to leading international brands, smaller cutting-edge labels, design shops, large-scale installations, temporary restaurants, bars and cafes, working flash factories, and live entertainment.

Places and Spaces will showcase new pieces in the UK by design giants Droog, artist-makers Kyouei design, British design industrialists Plant & Moss, eco-designers Mater, re-inventors Puebco and stationery creators Anything.

Kyouei design show a collection of jewellery - where form of function takes a new journey with the re appropriation of conventional springs, clasps and clamps from their industrial and practical purpose to a more refined and crafted interpretation as jewellery.

Form of the Function B by Kouichi Okamoto, 2012
stainless steel, 24K gold plating, platinum plating, black nickel plating, urethane coating

size: W73 x D17 x H42 mm

Plant & Moss are new additions to our designer maker portfolio. The Akita range of desktop accessories mismatch contrasting material textures of wood, polished brass and concrete and include a penholder, tape dispenser and unique desk light.

Akita Desktop Range by Tatsuya Akita, 2012

Droog launch new products including rugs, cabinets and tea towels. Pictured here the tea towels ‘for everything there is a month’. Creating a series of Dutch chequered dishtowels for every month with appropriate words and colours.

‘for everything there is a month’
Annelys de Vet Material: 100% bio cotton
62 x 62 cm

Mater review and add a new size of Bowl Table to their portfolio. The ecological and sustainable design company marries great design with eco concepts.

Bowl Table, by Ayush Kasliwal
Sustainably harvested Mango wood stained, steel legs.

Puebco - this Japanese brand takes product references from found objects and re-crafts them for a timely re-emergence. The age of these products seems unknown. The very idea of what is the ‘latest’ design is questioned through their re-interpretation.

Key Ball Pen by Puebco

Mint the timber furniture specialists engineer a new desk that can be fixed directly into a wall to give a lightness to their furniture.

Anything – add a new green tea colour way to their collection of desktop accessories designed by Michael Sodeau.

The full collection showcased and available to purchase at designjunction can be viewed here.

Shortlisted for World Architectural Festival Awards - Best Residential Project
Retrofit Awards (Winner Future Project 2010).

Mint Light Living Dining Table pictured here in Ash with a white laminate top and matching Ash chairs. George Nelson Saucer lamp in size medium. The vintage pieces were sourced for this project: Wink Chair by Toshiyuki Kita with original upholstery and the Brionvega soundsystem.

Studio Egret West asked us to imagine “a resident in the first decade of Park Hill's existence. A twenty something from Sheffield. A freelance photographer, a little eccentric, occasional painter, well travelled and living alone for the first time, a weekend climber and a cyclist.
His flat contains an eclectic collage of furnishings, lighting and artworks. It feels inhabited, a little rough at the edges and never sterile. It contains pieces from Sheffield, Britain and further afield, all the usual traces of habitation from found objects, precious photos and travel memorabilia from afar... It also has a soundtrack.”.

We sourced products to best fit the this brief along with the original mood boards and drawings created by Christophe Egret of Studio Egret West.

The lounge area is completed with a Hitch Mylius loveseat matched with commissioned and sourced artworks, prints and vintage photography.

The kitchen area includes design classics such as the Ego espresso cups and the 60's Sarpaneva cast iron casserole pot by Iittala.

In the bedroom we placed the classic Parentisi light by Achille Castiglioni for Flos. Charlene Mullen cushions for De La Espada on the bed are in a heavy linen fabric to pick up the textural references of the concrete wall and softened with with embroidered detailing.

The re emergence of this vast structure into the forefront of our stylistic residential buildings has been brought about by Urban Splash and the architects SEW and Hawkins Brown and Grant Associates. The brutalist style has been sensitively softened by the addition of colour and carefully considered landscaping matched with redesigning the interior to reflect a contemporary yet more informal style to the flats. Each of the flat typologies has sensitive detailing to both the original ethos of the building, such as exposing and mainting the original concrete walls, but also bringing friendlier surfaces and contemporary styles to make the overall experience inviting and engaging. You will want to live here!

We are very proud to have been involved with this project. Thank you SEW!