This is the last of a 3 part post about pieces I found either beautiful or interesting during the London Design Festival 2018.
It is a small selection that represents my view on design and what triggered my imagination when I saw those pieces.
Fabrics are one of the most sensual materials in interiors: their look, tactile qualities and use have a very close relation with our bodies. We respond to them from many angles. That is why they are so fascinating and a must in a well designed interior.
Pendant lights are items that somehow need to have sculpture-like qualities as they will be hanging most of the day not performing, just being decorative pieces so they need to offer a sense of aesthetics that pleases the eye and the soul during day time and at night.
Pendant light by Bert Frank (seen at Decorex)
Bert Frank has created a collection that winks at the heritage of modern design (50-60’s); pieces that look like classics that will go very well in a serene or rich environment.
The trend that takes inspiration of modern style is still on and this is a way of making it a bit contemporary.
Pendant light by Dirk Vander Kooij (seen at London Design Fair)
These pendant lights look like objects from a sci-fi movie: cold, futuristic and referring to our solar system with their well crafted orbits.
It is fascinating the possibility of using these pieces in classic or highly saturated spaces.
Pendant light by Jonathan Coles (seen at Decorex)
Really like the simplicity of this piece, it is like a drop emerging from the water frozen in its way down.
This kind of design acquire a higher impact when work in repletion like the magnificent hall designed by Fran Lloyd Wright for the Johnson’s building in America.
Pendant light by Lasvit (seen at Decorex)
Having a piece that embodies a contemporary feel at its more actual and being at the same time a beautiful piece is not an easy thing to achieve.
This pendant light got it but I would have it not in gold but in black or dark bronze.
Fabrics by Roland Pieter Smit (seen at London Design Fair)
Modernity knocking at our XXI century door again: Beautiful pattern in sensual wool, pure and simple beauty.
Fabrics by Watts (seen at Decorex)
And here we have complex, dense, elaborated fabrics with idyllic motives and classic buildings and features calling to a moment of contemplation and indulgment.
I certainly would use these fabrics in eclectic interiors as a source of beauty and homage to a time where time was understood and felt in a different way.
Fabrics by Chloe Alberry (seen at Decorex)
The use of computers has not just changed the way things are being made but how they look too.
This sort of fractal composition seems to be the product of a computer algorithm that uses classic elements to create a new design, creating a bridge between classic and contemporary.
