Brompton Design District Parties: The Brompton
Cocktail – Breathless – Mint – Kartell. During The London Design Festival the
evening of The Brompton Design District, celebrating its 10th anniversary, was
one of the most liveliest. Conceptual British Pop artist, Duggie Fields, one of
the capital's most cool fashion icons and trend setters, was also spotted party
hopping down the Brompton Road.
Photograph by Ania Wawrzkowicz courtesy Arabeschi di
Latte
The Brompton Cocktail – Arabeschi di Latte
To celebrate ten years of the Brompton Design
District, Brompton’s designer alumni created their own cocktails, based on The
Brompton Cocktail, an elixir that was administered at the Royal Brompton
Hospital in the early twentieth century.
The Original Brompton Cocktail was a lethal mix of morphine, heroin, cocaine
and alcohol, used for palliative care until the 1970s, not only to relieve pain
but also to promote sociability before death.
Above. Arabeschi di Latte’s Francesca Sarti and her
Pretty Hanky Panky cocktail, a mix of
Italian Vermouth, Gin, China Elixir and Belladonna.
The Brompton 10th anniversary exhibition was curated
by Jane Withers, above with Yves Marbrier, Liyu Yeo and Axelle de Buffevent.
The theme explored the processes and perceptions of Transformation, revealing
how exciting and free-thinking designers are meeting the challenges
of diminishing resources by giving new value and meaning to the most basic and
neglected materials.
Alice Stori Lichenstein and Marcin Rusak
Tomas Alonso and Bosco
Photogrpah courtesy Martino Gamper
Gingerini - Martino Gamper
Ginger Root – Strawberries – Champagne - Ice
The brief was to design a cocktail, either real or
realizable, or conceptual that offers Transformation “from diverse ingredients
into potent formula, from base materials into thoughtful ideas and objects,
from one state of mind to another or from one world to the next” says the
curator Jane Withers.
Oscar Lessing and Martino Gamper
Franca Berr and Sebastian Wrong
The Brompton Cocktail Event
A
celebrity Brompton tenth anniversary book of the cocktails was part of the installation
by Arabeschi di Latte in partnership with Bitossi Glass, above. The innovative recipes tell the stories of Brompton’s
collaborators over the past decade, including:
Arabeschi di Latte, Study O Portable, Max Lamb, Tomas Alonso, Martino
Gamper, DesignMarketo, Faye Toogood, Kirsty Minns and Erika Muller, Tom
Dixon, Laetitia De Allegri and Matteo Fogale, Michael Anastassiades, Peter
Marigold, Apartamento, Loris and Livia, Okolo.
Nigel
Coates
Brodie Neill
The Shit Museum
Toby
Anstruther shows the Mayor of the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea, Councillor Mrs. Elizabeth Rutherford, and her
husband round The Shit Museum’s Toilet Break installation a project carried out
in alliance with Dirty Furniture magazine.
Yvonne
Kroese and Cok de Rooij with Luca Cipelletti
The
Shit Museum, a project,
by Luca Cipelletti in Piacenza, Italy, produces ideas,
exhibitions, projects and objects about shit. It has invented Merdacotta, a
blend of dry dung, straw, farm waste and clay, a material that brings together
the principles of transformation and sustainability underpinning its vision and
values. A pop-up shop was also installed where visitors could
purchase the full range of the Shit Museum’s Primordial Products, including its
tableware, flowerpots, vases, tiles, tables, seating, etc.
Dirty Furniture – Toilet Break
“Design has worked for
decades to keep the subject of our most primordial activity, and the material
that results from it, firmly off topic. Is it time for us to address this
silence? Can design make shit socially acceptable in order to realize shit’s
potential?”
Design magazine Dirty Furniture and
The Shit Museum (Italy) came together for the London Design Festival to present
a subterranean hub – featuring two exhibitions and a series of debates – called
Toilet Break. Showing The Shit Museum's latest collection and an installation
that functions as a debating chamber in a show entitled Primordial Products,
and a provocative exhibition, On The Go, curated by Dirty Furniture, with a new
commission by Lukas Franciszkiewicz of London-Tokyo design studio Takram.
Dirty Furniture – Toilet Break – On the
Go Exhibition
Nappy Fashion Show – Aging Lifestyle
Research Centre – Tokyo
Dirty Furniture’s Elizabeth
Glickfeld and Anna Bates
Photograph courtesy - Apartamento
Magazine
The Apartamento Expresso Martini –
Apartamento Magazine
Double
Espresso – Lemon Peel –
Cinnamon – Vodka –Frangelico - Ice
Nesta
Morgan and Eldon
Johanna
Agerman Ross, Jacopo Sarzi, Letitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale
Arabeschi
Di Latte – Pickled Eggs
Amandine
Alessandra
Jacob
Peres and Toby Anstruther
Breathless
– The Essence of Glass
Breathless was a joint project of the award-winning design studio Dechem,
Czech Centre London and creative group OKOLO. Part of the Brompton Design
District, the interactive exhibition represented the essence of glass-making,
from its inception to its presence in various forms located all around us. The
very birth of glass materialized symbolically by the installation of a mobile
glass furnace. As a counterpoint
to the dynamic aspect, a glass museum was created with more than 30 diverse
artefacts and forms of glass, from conventional glassware, via design and art,
to more utilitarian objects such as fibreglass, plate glass and many others.
Dechem
– Jakub Jandourek and Michaela Tomiskova
Bet
Orten
Mint
– White Canvas Exhibition
For the London Design Festival 2016, Lina Kanafani of Mint curated
‘White Canvas,’ an exhibition focusing on innovative designers whose approach is
highly individualistic. Over 50 new and established designers were chosen for
their unique handcrafted skills working in a broad range of mediums.
Mint
Alissa
Volchkova – The Beautiful Unperfect – The Wedgwood Series
Mint
Thalia
Maria – Silver and Stone Objects
Mint
Anna
Weber – Glasgow
Luciano Ragno, Maria Cicinello and Stuart Helm
Kartell
– The Art of Living/Living with Art
“Kartell. The Art of Living/Living with Art” is the show’s
thematic presentation telling the story and innovative background of Kartell
products by top names in photography and contemporary art.
Kartell’s
Lorenza, Claudio, Maria and Federico Luti
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