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Clerkenwell Design Week Preview Feature LEFT Time - Domus CENTRE Peonia armchair - SCP RIGHT Tabitha Bargh Product highlights AMIDST A RICH TAPESTRY OF NEW launches, presentations and events, here’s a round-up of the top things to see and explore at the festival: 1 Domus on Great Sutton Street will present a colourful exhibit of tile designs created by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to celebrate their 10-year collaboration with the brand’s partner Mutina. The installation will also feature a new collection named ‘Time’. 2 In the British Collection at St James’s Church, SCP will launch a new Peonia armchair by Wilkinson and Rivera. This low-lying sculptural armchair is made at a specialist factory in Norfolk, using 100% natural and sustainable materials. 3 Also in the British Collection is Another Country, which will present its new ‘Series Five’ furniture alongside its Semley dining furniture. The former has been inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, while the latter takes its name from the rural village of Semley ABOVE Benchmark and London Metropolitan University - Aldgate Gold. Image by Lakruwan Rajapaksha on the borders of Dorset and Wiltshire, where the brand was originally founded. 4 Benchmark has joined forces with a group of B.A. Product and Furniture Design students from London Metropolitan University, as part of its showcase in the British Collection. Under the guidance of course leader Simon Hasan, Aldgate Gold champions a sustainable design ethos by challenging these students to reimagine discarded objects salvaged from the streets of London. Using offcuts sourced from Benchmark’s workshop, students repurposed these objects and transformed them into various items, including a pair of tennis ball sliders, a book stand and a wall-leaning light. 24 iconeye.com
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Feature Clerkenwell Design Week Preview ABOVE Strata Pendant Bronze (Ben Anders x Laura Fulmine) - J. Adams & Co LEFT Erica Wakerly x sixteen3 5 At Detail at the Order of St John, Schotten and Hansen and Kit Kemp Design Studio will showcase the Mythical Forest Salon, a creative collaboration featuring the former’s new pioneering magnetic floor treatment, to coincide with the wood specialist’s 40th anniversary this year. 6 Wallpaper designer Erica Wakerly has teamed up with Sixteen3 to debut a new fabric collection, which will be shown at the latter’s Bastwick Street showroom. 8 At Light, designer Tabitha Bargh will present her new lighting collection titled ‘Poly’. Utilising waste estate agent advertising boards made from Correx, typically unsustainable and non-biodegradable polypropylene, Bargh reimagines sustainability, crafting each piece with precision in her Brighton studio. 7 Joining the festival and the neighbourhood for the first time is British lighting manufacturer J. Adams & Co, launching its new St John Street showroom. Collaborating with tile expert Solus, the in-house team has repurposed materials from the site and factory offcuts to create stunning terrazzo tiles and worktops. Summer 2024 25

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Clerkenwell Design Week Preview

Feature

LEFT Time - Domus

CENTRE Peonia armchair - SCP

RIGHT Tabitha Bargh

Product highlights

AMIDST A RICH TAPESTRY OF NEW launches, presentations and events, here’s a round-up of the top things to see and explore at the festival:

1 Domus on Great Sutton Street will present a colourful exhibit of tile designs created by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to celebrate their 10-year collaboration with the brand’s partner Mutina. The installation will also feature a new collection named ‘Time’.

2 In the British Collection at St James’s Church, SCP will launch a new Peonia armchair by Wilkinson and Rivera. This low-lying sculptural armchair is made at a specialist factory in Norfolk, using 100% natural and sustainable materials.

3 Also in the British Collection is Another Country, which will present its new ‘Series Five’ furniture alongside its Semley dining furniture. The former has been inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, while the latter takes its name from the rural village of Semley

ABOVE Benchmark and London Metropolitan University - Aldgate Gold. Image by Lakruwan Rajapaksha on the borders of Dorset and Wiltshire, where the brand was originally founded.

4 Benchmark has joined forces with a group of B.A. Product and Furniture Design students from London Metropolitan University, as part of its showcase in the British Collection. Under the guidance of course leader

Simon Hasan, Aldgate Gold champions a sustainable design ethos by challenging these students to reimagine discarded objects salvaged from the streets of London. Using offcuts sourced from Benchmark’s workshop, students repurposed these objects and transformed them into various items, including a pair of tennis ball sliders, a book stand and a wall-leaning light.

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