Despoke

The Design Museum has been invited to curate Morgans Semi-Automatic (Morgans Hotel Group’s unique retail concept that first made its mark in the US when it launched at Art Basel Miami Beach at Mondrian in South Beach 2008) Alice Marsh, head of retail at The Design Museum was thrilled. “Semi-Automatic provides an exciting opportunity for the Design Museum to reach an international design savvy audience and we are thrilled that this partnership will coincide with The London Design Festival and London Fashion Week. We have chosen products from the Design Museum shop which will delight and surprise, the perfect fit for St Martin’s Lane Hotel.”

Semi-Automatic is a luxe take on the vending machine, and a unique play on the traditional hotel gift store, which will occupy a space in the St Martins Lane lobby. The 32-slot machine will contain items selected by The Design Museum for the duration of September and October.

The touch-operated screen of Semi-Automatic will allow Morgans Hotel Group guests and visitors a chance to purchase The Design Musuem’s finest products, including: Polaroid Eyewear by Kenneth Grange, USB 1GB designed exclusively for the Design Museum shop, Le Cool Guide to London 2008, and unique ‘take-home’ pieces by some of the leading figures of the design world including Mat Osmar, Rich Banks and Ippei Matsumoto.

Semi-Automatic, curated by The Design Museum, will be fully operational within St Martins Lane lobby from Thursday September 1 until 31 October 2011, available to guests 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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[re]design are proud to present their new baby – Chalkyvan.

Chalkyvan is a VW campervan that has been lovingly rejuvenated and upgraded with sustainable materials and technologies, to use as a mobile chalkboard, event and exhibition space.

[26 Sept] The Forum, 100% Design 11-5
We close at the big daddy of design happenings, with a smorgasbord offering of interactive events and a gallery of Good and Gorgeous sustainable design as captured during the Festival.

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As part of the
London Design Festival, TEN return for the fifth year and will be showing a collection of objects with a DIY ethos alongside corresponding plans for the public to download and make themselves. TEN PLAN will be located at #5 on the Feature Boulevard at 100% Design, Earls Court from 23rd – 26th September.
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Great Western Studios will celebrate the opening of their new canal-side building with an exhibition of work by some of the UK’s most talented designers. The exhibition also marks the launch of their wider ongoing cultural programme.

This September, Great Western Studios takes part in the London Design Festival for the first time – presenting the work of fifteen designers and design collectives throughout its recently opened new home. The exhibition includes work by Ana Thompson & Tom Higgs, Creative [SIN]ergy, Edward Cotterill, Emilie Voirin, Gareth Neal, Jody Leach, Joe Earley, Martha Freud, Mike Moran, Naomi McIntosh, Tamasine Osher and Ulrika Jarl and Venice 2132, and will include the various design disciplines from furniture to jewellery and ceramics to lighting, as well as looking into the wider subject of city-wide design and architecture.
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Wallpaper* and Victorinox have partnered to create a select release of custom Swiss Army picketknives.  Much cooler than the standard corporate logo emblazoned on a knife, these actually have the look and feel of Wallpaper* right down to the materials used .
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Light Wind by DEMAKERSVAN

There has always been a battle for sustainability. Change versus convenience; comical mini-diatribes against The Guardian; or just swearing at the recycling men because, apparently, that’s the wrong type of plastic. The war is fought on many fronts and while sustainability may be winning hearts and minds, it is not shooting down any carbon-spewing planes just yet.

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The Garage, North Terrace. South Kensington, London. SW3 2BA
With new commissions and works created specially for this London exhibition, Dick van Hoff will create a spectacular installation in the old Garage in North Terrace, South Kensington as part of the London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair for 2009.

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