London Design Festival : Design Undefined returns to Clerkenwell London

Exiting May’s annual celebration of design with a myriad of glimmering reviews from the likes of Dezeen, Metro, The Independent, Wallpaper*, It’s Nice That, Telegraph Luxury and Disgeno, Design Undefined’s debutante show was described by renowned design journalist Barbara Chandler as, “An insight into today’s materials-obsessed world.” 

Design Undefined’s London Design Festival return will see award-winning and highly-acclaimed creatives inhabit the many rooms of Clerkenwell London from September 17, 19-24. Clerkenwell London will run a programme of talks, workshops and events, featuring participating designers and some very special guests alongside the exhibition. 

Architecture collective Assemble will use Clerkenwell London’s ground-floor Platform to share insights into their ongoing work on the community restoration of Liverpool’s derelict Granby Street neighbourhood, which won them the Turner Prize last year. The team will exhibit pieces from the Granby Workshop, the offshoot of the redevelopment project whereby home and interior products are hand-made using experimental making processes that incorporate chance and improvisation. Products include fireplaces, bookends, lamps and tabletops made from cast demolition waste, sawdust-smoked ceramic light pulls and collage tiles. Profits from Granby Workshop are fed back into the restoration project, allowing Assemble and the Granby community to continue improving the long-abandoned area. Film footage from the Granby restoration will be shown downstairs in the Wine Keep.

London-based product and industrial designer Sam Wilkinson (the man behind the Ommatidium in Shoreditch, the Mòltair watch for Nomad and the award-winning Plumen 001 light bulb) is creating an installation in the ground-floor Keep to debut his new line of chairs, crafted from steam-bent wood. Offcuts from the process will be used to create the surrounding structure, turning it into a ‘cage’ of suspended wooden pieces.

Above 1: Yinka Ilori, 2: Granby door handles, 3: Samuel Wilkinson's Brace chair, 4: Yinka Ilori, 5: Fuzzy Logic by Adam Blencowe and Marine Duroselle, 6: Camille Walala.