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Brompton Design District
The first dedicated London Design Festival district, Brompton has earned a reputation for championing exemplary forward-thinking and eco-conscious design. Brilliantly curated by Jane Withers Studio since its launch in 2006, Brompton Design District is one of the most reliably innovative and forward-thinking districts of London Design Festival. The first ever dedicated LDF district, Brompton has developed a strong sense of community among its retail brands and participating designers over the years, crossing commercial and cultural lines. For over a decade, it has offered an ever-expanding programme of events and exhibitions, celebrating the most exciting emerging and established designers in some of the area’s most breathtaking spaces and showrooms. Alongside the extraordinary spectacle of the products and installations on show, the main thing that keeps the crowds (including team Zetteler) coming back to Brompton year after year is its dedication to thoughtful, impactful and environmentally conscious design. This is largely down to Jane Withers’ incomparable eye for the innovative, the curious, the magical and the playful, combined with her studio’s dauntless advocacy for sustainable and ecologically progressive design. This was demonstrated once again in the 2019 curatorial theme, Nature/Nurture – an exploration of the changing relationship between design, the city and the natural world. Highlights included Brompton Biotopia – a series of research-based, designer-created animal habitats dotted around the district; the permanent installation of Michael Anastassiades’ Fleet drinking fountain outside Kensington Tube; and the anatomically inspired architecture of Jorge Penadés Traceless pavilion.
WHAT WE DID FOR Brompton Design District
Brompton Design District’s winning combination of future-focused design and strong eco credentials made it a natural partner for Zetteler. We were delighted to support the district in promoting its 2019 programme, and to help ensure Brompton remained the go-to design destination for LDF 2019.
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Brompton biotopia
This LDF, Brompton Design District will explore the theme Nature/Nurture, investigating how design can respond to the threat of rapidly disappearing habitats and large-scale species extinction. Ahead of September, we chatted with ecology expert Dr Rob Francis of King’s College London about the huge wealth of wildlife living in our cities, and what designers can do to protect and encourage it.
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