LDF17: V&A and Brompton Design District
We visit the Brompton Design District and the Victoria & Albert Museum to check out what 2017 had to offer.
The London Design Festival returned to the Victoria & Albert Museum as its ‘hub’ for another year of events and programming that sees the museum receive more visitors than at any other time of year. Each year designers are invited to submit proposals for installations that respond to various spaces within the museum. This year one of the absolute highlights was Australian lighting artist and designer Flynn Talbot’s Reflection Room in the Prince Consort Gallery, which saw the 35-meter-long space filled with Talbot’s signature blue and orange lighting to magnificent effect.
While We Wait by Bethlehem-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas in Room 64b of the the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries is a large, lattice-like, self-supporting structure made from stone that has been quarried in various regions of Palestine ? each piece has been designed digitally, cut by robots, and finished by hand. The structure is inspired by the traditional landscape and rocky terraces of the Cremisan Valley, near Bethlehem, and also conceived as a space for quiet contemplation in response to plans for a new section of the Israeli West Bank barrier through this area.
Ross Lovegrove’s Transmission references the colors and folds in depicted fabrics in the 15th century Devonshire Hunting Tapestries that surround it. The 21.3-meter-long i...
The London Design Festival returned to the Victoria & Albert Museum as its ‘hub’ for another year of events and programming that sees the museum receive more visitors than at any other time of year. Each year designers are invited to submit proposals for installations that respond to various spaces within the museum. This year one of the absolute highlights was Australian lighting artist and designer Flynn Talbot’s Reflection Room in the Prince Consort Gallery, which saw the 35-meter-long space filled with Talbot’s signature blue and orange lighting to magnificent effect.
While We Wait by Bethlehem-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas in Room 64b of the the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries is a large, lattice-like, self-supporting structure made from stone that has been quarried in various regions of Palestine ? each piece has been designed digitally, cut by robots, and finished by hand. The structure is inspired by the traditional landscape and rocky terraces of the Cremisan Valley, near Bethlehem, and also conceived as a space for quiet contemplation in response to plans for a new section of the Israeli West Bank barrier through this area.
Ross Lovegrove’s Transmission references the colors and folds in depicted fabrics in the 15th century Devonshire Hunting Tapestries that surround it. The 21.3-meter-long i...
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