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visitors across the exhibition route whilst
playfully celebrating CDW as the UK’s leading
independent design festival. With a nod to
the area as London’s creative heart, each
installation will showcase the designers'
individuality and imagination.
CDW’s installation Reflect Us, created by
artist Beau Kerouac intends to bridge
gaps in society by confronting visitors with
illuminated eyes etched onto 10 glass
gateways, telling the stories of the homeless
from our city streets. Using AR technology,
Beau Kerouac invites visitors to question how
an act of respect; simply making eye contact,
can change someone's day for the better
through shared experience.
The installation will be complemented by CDW’s exhibitions are hosted in distinctive
For Clerkenwell’s 10th anniversary, a a series of talks, workshops and events. spaces around the area linked by a route
plethora of exciting pop up showrooms and Fritz Hansen will be collaborating with running through the centre of EC1. There
workspaces will take place during the festival. Zaha Hadid Architects to showcase aspects are seven exhibitions, each with a different
Established & Sons will take up residency in of their Heritage Exhibition, whilst Relay curatorial focus, ranging from cutting edge
Fora to launch four new designs including Design Agency will present + Halle, Baux, international design, to emerging talent,
The GRID SOFA by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Orsjo, Mitab and Zeitram within a fashion lighting, luxury interiors and the best of British
the KD TABLE and BEAM TABLE by Konstantin house on Clerkenwell Road. KI, one of the design.
Grcic and the LUCIO CHAIR by Sebastian world’s largest manufacturers of workplace Wrong. Conceived as a complete take-over and education furniture will take over an of Fora’s breakout spaces, the installation will architectural gem in the centre of the festival invite visitors to explore the possibilities of site. The pop-up showroom at the landmark Established & Sons’ new, innovative designs Paxton Locher House on Clerkenwell Green by trying them out with hot-desking, wi-fi will be transformed into ‘KI House’ for and refreshments from Fora’s in-house cafe. the launch of several new UK-designed &
manufactured products.
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