{"id":188584,"date":"2021-10-01T16:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=188584"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:11:45","slug":"14-new-product-highlights-from-the-london-design-festival-2021","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/14-new-product-highlights-from-the-london-design-festival-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"14 New Product Highlights from the London Design Festival 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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October 1, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n

Words:\u00a0<\/span>Mairi Beautyman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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14 New Product Highlights from the London Design Festival 2021<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Why have one design district when you can have 10<\/a>, each with a different flavor? So thought the organizers of the 19th edition of the London Design Festival<\/a>, which wrapped up last weekend. Despite some travel difficulties due to varying Covid-19 quarantine regulations, the U.K.\u2019s biggest design event\u2014 organized to promote London as \u201cthe design capital of the world\u201d\u2014was jammed with product launches and installations and even welcomed visitors to new permanent destinations, such as a retail and dining initiative celebrating the best of Nordic and Japanese design and cuisine. From a chair with a frog eye-like back to a diagonal faucet in a new showroom with a criminal past to furnishings first seen in a new sushi restaurant, here are 14 of our favorite new products discovered at the London Design Festival 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afternoon Tea by Lara Bohinc for Bohinc Studio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three floors of a London townhouse were decked out with the Afternoon Tea collection by Lara Bohinc for Bohinc Studio<\/a>\u2014a nine-piece line of curvy experimental furnishings. Described by the designer as \u201calmost froglike,\u201d the powder-coated steel Trevor dining chair has two round upholstered cushions\u2014frog eye-like\u2014forming its back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, the Kipfel Marble desk boosts any working from home experience to another level with the sublime luxury of rosa portugalo<\/em> marble in a form inspired by an Austrian pastry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay by Nika Zupanc for S\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a textile flourish\u2014suitable fireworks to introduce its new London showroom\u2014furniture manufacturer S\u00e9<\/a> teamed up with French fabric house Leli\u00e8vre Paris<\/a>. Shown here are the Stay dining chairs by Nika Zupanc for S\u00e9, now upholstered in Leli\u00e8vre textile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rettangolo K by Gessi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the ground floor of a former courthouse built in 1782, Casa Gessi is the new 5,400-square-foot flagship showroom space for tap manufacturer Gessi<\/a>. Located in the heart of the Clerkenwell design district, the heritage building preserves the remnants of former holding cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rettangolo K, a redesign of a best-selling model toasting the diagonal line, was among new taps featured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lounge by Max Lamb for Vaarnii<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wild-grown Scots Finnish pine is the material behind all 12 pieces in the first collection produced by freshly launched furniture brand Vaarnii<\/a>, also hailing from Finland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scooping out convex recesses gave rise to the hardy Lounge chair by Max Lamb. The collection was featured in \u201cBack + Forth,\u201d an exhibition at Twentytwentyone<\/a> gallery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iso by Jasper Morrison for Isokon Plus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The crumbling beauty of an 18th-century London mansion set the scene for designs from eight different furniture brands at design destination 14 Cavendish<\/a>. Cantilevered plywood lounge chair Iso by Jasper Morrison for Isokon Plus<\/a> demonstrates what experimentation with the orientation and thickness of veneer layers can achieve with a humble material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N-SC01 by Norm Architects for Karimoku Case Study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The minds behind furniture brand Karimoku Case Study<\/a> had the bright idea to debut furnishings incorporated into the interior of a new high-end sushi restaurant at Nordic and Japanese retail and dining venue Pantechnicon<\/a>, also new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rounded form of the N-SC01 side chair by Norm Architects pays tribute to the distinctive architecture of Blue Bottle Coffee, a coffeeshop in Yokohama, Japan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hempcrete by Smarin Studio for Super Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n