In over 12 years the London Design Festival, held this year from September 13 to September 21, has grown to become one of the city’s calendar events, visited by an estimated 350,000 people and acting as an umbrella for projects by over 250 collaborators, from retailers and manufacturers to galleries and colleges.
Its hub was the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), where many of the Festival’s commissioned pieces are temporarily installed. Here, explains Festival director Ben Evans, “We try to say something different about design.” With no requirement to make objects that were saleable or conventionally functional, designers were free to focus on ideas.
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