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DESIGN JUNCTION
The award-winning interiors show, innovations in materials, emerging designers
designjunction is returning to King’s Cross and breakthrough brands. Here, visitors will
during the London Design Festival, 19 – 22 find new and innovative product launches
September 2019. Now in its ninth year, and design discoveries. Scandinavian design
designjunction has proven itself to be the duo Friends and Founders will launch
most anticipated event of the Festival, structural new pieces including the FF chairs,
attracting over 27,000 visitors across four days which feature a chrome-plated steel tube
in 2018. This year, designjunction will present structure and curved backrest, in an obvious
a curated mix of over 100 world-renowned nod towards the Bauhaus movement.
furniture, lighting, accessory and technology
brands alongside pop-up shops, installations,
temporary structures and major brand
activations.
Taking on the theme: (Re)act, designjunction
is calling upon its exhibitors as agents of
change, to react to issues, to re-imagine
opportunities and to re-connect with
their audiences. Exhibitors will be creating
challenging products and activations,
encouraging visitors to think differently about
the world and the spaces that they inhabit.
Cubit House, designjunction’s trade
destination, will play a backdrop to cutting-
edge furniture and lighting, alongside
Bauhaus inspired design will be hard to miss
at the 2019 edition of LDF, with numerous
brands taking their inspiration from the
movement, which celebrates its centenary Clippings. Set against the millennial-pink
year. backdrop of the Everyman Cinema and
This year, designjunction are bringing
consumer brands back to The Canopy,
housing over 70 premium pop-up shops and
emerging design labels, selling everything
from fashion accessories to technology,
ceramics, glassware and stationery. The area
will take shape under an impressive heritage-
protected wrought iron structure.
designjunction have launched a brand-new
Talks programme for 2019, sponsored by
curated by design and architecture writer
and commentator Grant Gibson, the two-day
platform (Thursday 19 - Friday 20 September)
is set to challenge, provoke and engage with
an eclectic range of topical issues that include
sustainability and the circular economy; the
relationship between dyslexia and design; the
need for increased diversity in design; and the
importance of wellbeing at work.
Register now for your ticket at
www.designjunction.co.uk