The Art of Design Issue 40 2019 | Page 34

34 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