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Highlights from the V&A Museum for London Design Festival 2015
By Sam Dunne - Oct 05, 2015
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Sam Dunne
Welcome to the Victoria & Albert Museum
The design festival returns to London with an appropriately attention-grabbing fly poster aesthetic.
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Zotem by Kim Thome
18-meter tall, double-sided monolith embedded with oversized, color-changing Swarovski crystals. Unfortunately it was closed off for safety reasons for much of the festival's opening day.
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Mise-en-abyme by Laetitia de Allergi and Matteo Fogale
A tribute to perspective in perspex on V&A's bridge
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Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas
A new addition to the V&A's Design Fund collection of contemporary design pieces.
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Adventure Romantique backpack by Alexis Tourron
ECAL design student explores the topic, "What is Luxury?"
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Skull Watch by Fiona Kruger
ECAL design student explores the topic, "What is Luxury?"
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Le Beau Jeu leather ping pong paddles by Luc Beaussart
ECAL design student explores the topic, "What is Luxury?"
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Luciole Lamp by Cessare Bizzotto
ECAL design student explores the topic, "What is Luxury?"
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood and Kvadrat
A collection of unusual coats designed to lead visitors on a narrative journey around the museum.
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Coats constructed from a variety of materials were produced in collaboration with local manufacturers and placed throughout the museum. Here, small scale models are used to explain the project.
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Upon borrowing a coat, visitors can use the illustrated map (included with snaps inside the coat) to locate the other cloaks sprinkled throughout the museum.
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Seams on the Kvadrat textiles are hand painted using industrial paint.
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Each coat is customized with an illustrated "face."
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The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Sculptures of the coats scattered around the museum echo their environments.
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The Cloakroom
Sculptures of the coats scattered around the museum echo their environments.
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Sam Dunne
The Cloakroom by Faye Toogood
Sculptures of the coats scattered around the museum echo their environments.
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Curiosity Cloud by Mischer Traxler
Vienna-based design duo created an illuminated kinetic sculpture with Perrier-Jouet and J.L. Lobmeyr.
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Curiosity Cloud by Mischer Traxler
Model butterflies flap around large crystal bulbs and are activated by the approach of humans.
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Royal Festival Hall Lounge Chair, 1951
A classic Robin Day bentwood chair on display as part of the festivities.
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Tower of Babel by Barnaby Barford
A tribute to the shop fronts of London and a comment on social hierarchies.
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Tower of Babel by Barnaby Barford.
Miniatures of London's shops piled high with cheaper neighborhoods represented at the bottom and the classiest joints up top.
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Tower of Bable by Barnaby Barford.
A visitor looks at details of the work through viewing glasses.
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The Ogham Wall by Grafton Architects
Enormous installation of concrete slabs in V&A's famous tapestry room, inspire by the 4th Century Irish Ogham alphabet.
The Victoria & Albert Museum was once again a center of activity and specialty commissions during this year's London Design Festival. From mischer'traxler's poetic "Curiosity Cloud," an immersive and interactive kinetic sculpture, to the fantastic treasure hunt for Faye Toogood's cloaks—wrought from a variety of materials and scattered around the museum, this year's standout projects invited visitors to take a closer look and get involved.
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