The 15th annual Designersblock with Southbank Centre

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Southbank Centre
London
SE1 8XX

Royal Festival Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall

10am ‐ 7pm Daily

Entry is free with pre registration
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The 15th annual Designersblock with Southbank Centre

The 15th annual Designersblock will take place with Southbank Centre during the London Design Festival over a series of amazing spaces including the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, some of which have never been seen by the public. This is the most high profile and prestigious venue we have ever used, attracting over 22 million visitors every year. We will have a main exhibition space, a program of live events and installations, as well as taking over the Royal Festival Hall shop. Spaces are available, send applications to rory@designersblock.org.uk

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Rare Breeds shop at the Royal Festival Hall

Traces

During the London Design Festival Designersblock will be producing Rare Breeds, within the Royal Festival Hall shop. Featuring limited editions, Seconds and product sourced from our network of creatives including lighting, ceramics, tableware, toys and gifts. Pictured here is 'Illuskate' by Stuart Melrose, exclusive designs from the Illuskate range will be available from Rare Breeds. Have something that might be suitable? Please send images and wholesale prices (PDFs or Jpegs) to info@designersblock.org.uk

Traces will take place at a secret East London location as part of the Shoreditch Fringe festival In August. Set in an old Victorian building, Traces will explore through narrative and a series of commissioned objects, the history of the building and the value we put on memory. Traces will include the work of over 60 designers and feature furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, jewellery, food, illustration, digital and sound.

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Lazerian, Rousseau and Flux at Prometheus event

Designersblock prize at New Designers

We were recently approached to supply the furniture for the latest Secret Cinema pop up restaurant in support of the release of the latest Ridley Scott film Prometheus. Set in a secret London location the restaurant replicated the set of one of this years biggest blockbuster movies, we approached Manchester design studio Lazerian for the lighting and Dutch furniture brand Flux and London based studio Rousseau (pictured) for the seating solution.

Last year at New Designers we presented the first Designersblock prize for outstanding creativity and original thought to Patrick Stevenson Keating for his project the Quantum Parallelograph. We have since shown Patricks work in London and Milan and he has desk space at Designersblock headquarters. We are pleased to announce that this years award went to Andrew Knott for his project Faber.

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Bodging Milano 2

Following the huge success of the Bodging Milano project in 2010, in which nine designers went back to basics and made a collection of greenwood chairs in the ash woods of deepest Herefordshire, collaborators Rory Dodd and Chris Eckersley have now returned to the forest. Bodging Milano 2 participants included Clifford Leo Harris, Jon Harrison, Koji and Noriko Katsuragi, Liam Hopkins, Sarah Kay, Simon Maidment, Stefano Santilli, Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers. The results of Bodging Milano 2 will be shown at Designersblock during the London Design Festival.