For me, London Design Festival 2016 was all about antiquity, stone busts, rattan and ferns. Makers House – by Burberry and the New Craftsmen – was one of the highlights. The courtyard garden, complete with ferns and grasses in terracotta pots, stone busts and statues and blowsy white blooms, set the tone.
Like the Burberry September 2016 collection, the garden and interior of Makers House are inspired by Nancy Lancaster’s garden designs and Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”. A contemporary take on the tradition of the great country house and the way in which it would evolve over the years, becoming a melting pot of influences : noble and authentic, casual and formal, masculine and feminine, night and day…
Downstairs, the New Craftsman organised a host of workshops – from silk screen printing and calligraphy to sculpting and sand casting.
Silk-screen printing by Rose de Borman
Bookbinding by Shepherds and Bespoke & Bound.
Calligraphy by Rosalind Wyatt
I loved this re-interpretation of traditional wicker designs by Jongh Label spotted at Tent London.
And Luke Edward Hall’s ceramics, selected by Ashley Hicks as part of London Design Festival 2016’s Focus Art in Interiors exhibition, featuring Cocteau-esque figures inspired by Greek mythology…
You could almost imagine a greek deity emerging from Martyn Thompson’s “Rock Pool”…
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