Brompton Design District – open throughout the festival with late night opening 19 September
Leading design shops, exhibition spaces, museums and institutions on and around Brompton Road make up the Brompton Design District. Highlights from independent local retailers include an exhibition at interior design store Mint, where owner Lina Kanafani will present a selection of works by designers who embrace new concepts and production methods. Meanwhile, fans of Scandinavian design should head to Studio Skandium, where there’s a special display of work by four design studios, Stig Lindberg, Cate & Nelson and Emma Lonsdale.
This year The Conran Shop on Marylebone High Street teams up with Bradford Shellhammer, co-founder of online retailer Fab.com to host the ‘Disrupting Design’ competition, which will see a panel of experts select the best new products to put into production and sell on Fab.com. Leading international brands with showrooms on Brompton Road will also be exhibiting as part of the festival, including big names B&B Italia, Boffi and Cassina.
Also in Brompton, the V&A Museum, which is the ‘hub’ of the festival, features a special exhibition dedicated to Italian homeware brand Alessi along with design exhibitions curated specially for the festival.