LOFT design by

My final post from Westbourne Grove, LOFT design by is a beautifully designed store where I was mesmerised more by the interior than by what they were selling, which is rather gorgeous clothes. They are a French company with shops in Paris. I was not allowed to take any photographs and was told that Kelly Hoppen had been refused permission too :) The interior is a combination of found objects, framed prints, art and furniture - oh yes and some clothes too.

The Birthday Party

Hylton Nel

David Clarke

Flow Gallery, 1-5 Needham Road, London W11 celebrate their 10th Birthday with an exhibition of work by 12 artists nominated by 12 women collectors. The exhibition continues until 21 November. Happy Birthday Flow!

Lacy Gallery

Lacy Gallery, 203 Westbourne Grove, London W11. A frame collectors paradise.

Chair Poetics

Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor reconfigure ordinary, everyday chairs to ask questions about our relationship to utility, familiarity, obsolescence, sustainability and value. This exhibition is part of the London Design Festival and it is on at England & Co, 216 Westbourne Grove, London W11 until 30 September.

James Plumb

I wish I had seen the work of James Russell and Hannah Plumb aka James Plumb at Tent, their website is lovely. I saw this on the Haute Nature blog.

Knit Wits

We visited Knit Wits at Skandium, were taught to knit by Claire Platt and offered tea and cake and then on the way home we saw this giant crocodile on the District Line. A lovely end to the festival. There was lots more I wanted to see but it was difficult to get around everything in one week.

The Everyday Life Collector

The London Design Festival ended yesterday, I managed to get to a couple more shows. This was lovely, one man's life collection of ceramics, Richard Lamb.

Present Conditions

In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows

New European Lighting Design curated by Jane Withers, London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum until 27th September.

Craftaholics

Craftaholics

craft and design fair today Saturday 26th September

Islington from 12-5pm.

Letterpress Love

SORT had a great collection of blocks for printing and this is the notebook I printed with my name. I hope to do more letterpress some day - it is a very beautiful art. I love the way the letters and images are embossed in the card.

Firefly Press

The Incidental

Incidental HQ Main Entrance, originally uploaded by The Incidental.

The Incidental is a community generated news pamphlet and website by and for the design community produced by a team at the British Council. Send them your reviews, news and updates via twitter, text, photograph, sketch or blog post. You can also visit them at their HQ at 5 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, SW7 for the duration of the London Design Festival.

Society of Revisionist Typographers

Another event which is part of the London Design Festival is the pop-up letterpress studio of the Society of Revisionist Typographers , SORT, which is located in the Newburgh Quarter off Carnaby Street. The shop will be there until Sunday 27th September. All the workshops are fully booked but I did get the opportunity to print a notebook. It is a really inspiring place and well worth a visit. If you are not in London you can purchase items of Typographic beauty from the SORT etsy shop.

Dreams on Wheels

Dreams on Wheels - Embassy of Denmark United Kingdom: For devoted or even those less passionate and occasional cyclists, Dreams on Wheels presents a view of contemporary urban cycling culture and examples of what can be seen and more importantly experienced in London and Copenhagen. For those of you who are yet to experience your city on two wheels, it will give you a chance to reconsider your options for daily commuting and leisure time.

Dreams on Wheels aims to get more people cycling around their city. It surveys best practice from Copenhagen and London, from cultural habit to innovative industrial design and city planning.
The London version of Dreams on Wheels is part of the prologue to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. Previously, other versions of Dreams on Wheels have been shown at the Danish Design Center, Copenhagen and internationally in Canberra, Edinburgh, Riga, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo and Moscow.

The exhibition is at London City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1. Open Monday-Friday 8.30-5.30 until 2 October. The bicycle is from Condor cycles

Knit wit with Iittala

For London Design Festival 2009 Skandium is partnering with Barley Massey of Fabrications, East London. Barley Massey and ‘Knitty Gritty’, a collection of inspired knitters, presents ‘Knit-Wits’ a collection of iconic Iittala products that are dressed in knit and displayed at Skandium on Brompton Road and Marylebone High Street. These witty and irreverent creations are one-off designs that are available to buy. Some may be completely covered up, but perhaps you will still recognize the iconic Iittala design? Thursday 24th-Sunday 27th September.

Jasper Morrison Shop

Jugs, Jars & Pitchers.

Jasper Morrison shop, 24b Kingsland Road London E2

London Design Festival

The London Design Festival, 163 exhibitions and installations showcasing the best in architecture, art, craft and design. 19-27 September 2009.

Bay

Drying bay leaves from the allotment.

The London Skyride

St Paul's Cathedral

Northumberland Avenue

London Cycle Chic

It was a really wonderful day at the London Skyride - over 65,000 cyclists of all ages and everyone with a smile on their face, we had exceptional weather and I even found the lovely people from London Cycle Chic at the end of the day, having missed our rendezvous. I have never experienced a bike jam of its kind before!

On the way to the London Skyride

Travelling from south west London to the Mall for the London Skyride I cycled through Brompton Cemetery and stopped for breakfast at "the last 50's cafe in Earl's Court",

The Troubadour.

Bicycle Film Festival

Bicycle Film Festival in London 23rd-27th September.

Sargent & Co

If you love anything bicycle related with a history, Rob Sargent's wonderful shop Sargent & Co 74 Mountgrove Road, Finsbury Park, London N5 2LT is the place to go. I visited in the Summer when his tomatoes were in full bloom.

The IDEALE saddle

I found this beautiful old French Ideale saddle at a market - it is a very beautiful object but rather uncomfortable. It takes a while to get used to a new saddle so I think I will stick with my lovely Brookes saddle for this Sunday's London Skyride. I am meeting a group of lovely lasses and lads from London Cycle Chic dressed in all sorts of non-lycra finery :) You can read more about the event on their blog.

FIG.24

Alfalfa

Paper Works

Clare Goddard

Paper Works: Paper Works, an exhibition featuring twelve international artists at Flow, harnesses the sensitivity of the hand-made object. Fragility and transience are the immediate connotations which resonate in the use of paper as a medium for creating three-dimensional form. Single sheets are either reworked or pulped to form visually striking works of art.

Flow Gallery 1-5 Needham Road, London W11 until 19 September.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Twice Born Men

With Love x

Rik Snowley and Stanley Lunger

27 August 2002

Willy DeVille

Robin Cracknell

Blue Lake Revisited

Robin Cracknell is showing 2 of his beautiful photographs at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, 3 Jubilee Place, London SW3 3TD, as part of a group show titled Starting with a photograph. The exhibition includes another of my favourite artists, Maurizio Anzeri. The show continues until 10 October.

8pm

Lying down, looking up