whats on - kartell celebrates 60 years of design all summer!

This year Kartell turns 60. Sixty years of design and technlogical innovation that they have put to work to make your life easier, your home more beautiful and much more colourful. 60 years of inventiveness and creativity for which they have enlisted the collaboration of the greatest international designers.

60 years of research on quality and functionality as they have tried to understand the sensivity and diversity of their customers so that the products would always be useful and not just a mere exercise in form. 60 years during which they and us have grown and developed through this journey called life.

During July and August, we're celebrating all that in our in store exhibition of a wide range of products for the home and the office.

whats on - london design festival 2009

London Design Week (19-27 September 2009) is an exciting highlight in our calendar and is an opportunity for the UK’s design community to celebrate and promote the capital as the creative hub of the world. The festival provides a platform for creative talent at work and the events and activities reflect the diversity of world-class talent in the city.

Our event is titled- "Losing The Plot".

We exhibited eight transparent polycarbonate Louis Ghost chairs, designed by Philippe Starck for Kartell, which will be ‘customised’ by selected individuals from different creative disciplines. Philippe Starck’s pared-down version of the opulent Louis XV-style chair was revolutionary for its blatant mocking of the bourgeoisie. However, as the Ghost chair has become increasingly well-known, it has become synonymous with bland, safe and, ironically, ‘bourgeois’ interior styling. Our event hopes to confront this by customising, and thus reinterpreting the chair in interesting and challenging ways, to distinguish the chair as a piece of cutting-edge design once again.

The chairs were exhibited in store throughout the festival and then sold at an auction after the festival, and the proceeds were donated to local charity Children with Aids.