Truman Brewery, brick lane: it has become a very sellable brand, having been tweeted the shit out of by Rachel Isherwood, tagged all over the place. Tent has always been a nice little package, promising a variety of stuff for all to see, but to me it has never really gelled, seeming somewhat disparate.
Here is my selection of stuff from Tent.
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Wow, so design week is upon us again. The festival has begun and so have the openings, the parties and the free drinks. Several glasses of champagne were enjoyed by myself and Ian Atkins at the LDF launch with Boris Johnson at City Hall on Monday night, a pleasant evening that was certainly brought to life by his speech, despite its late deliverance. That man has a wonderful knack of digging himself a hole, almost deep enough to fall in, but somehow saving himself from the precipice with some charming wit and characterful bumbling.
Flowers were the office prop of the day down at Design Prima
With prima being a purveyor of the latest in office space style, naturally the show would attract people who had their own office attire to match.
A plethora of men in suits with their ties removed and top button undone, making the most of their day out of the real office. Ladies in happy coloured tops and heels. not everyone made the effort, but Working Title found a few that did.
A very sharp dressed and immaculately turned out gentleman, mixing a blue and white striped shirt with a sneaky bowtie poking out from the lapels of a black denim tailored mid length jacket. Cleverly combined with some dark aubergine coloured trousers suitably big enough to prevent his super polished black leather marching shoes from taking over. I hope he is an architect and a granddad and an art teacher.
A very simple but sexy look, can’t go wrong with well fitting black and grey. Despite her overly healthy looking tan this lady had a glowing smile and a subtle elegance.
This fine gentlemen was on the Rexite stand, a bold choice coupling black tailored trousers with a soft beige single breasted jacket, the violet coloured shirt helping to bring it all together with a tie complimenting his Italian brown leather shoes. Couldn’t quite work out if he was Gilbert or George.
With this years Prima being my first, I didn’t know quite what to expect. I hoped the exhibition would resemble a TV studio that specialised in office based programs, imagining all these different sets in one place, with furniture and purposefully positioned stationary all arranged with the intention of putting their product in context inside the vast space of the Business Design Centre. I wasn’t disappointed.
You’d have to be crazy to try ham and pineapple ice cream, and even crazier to make it. Well, we found someone just crazy enough to do it and do it well, and that’s Crazy Ice. Their ice cream is produced using the finest ingredients obsessively researched and sourced from specific parts of Italy, and in the case of ham and pineapple, pre-cooked to get the flavour from the meat. It tasted exactly like the pizza topping, even the texture remained, resulting in confusion as to what that stringy thing was you had stuck in your teeth. Wow.
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It is temporary, only for the duration of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2009. Maison Martin Margiela introduces its concepts of interior architecture through an installation. It is a recreation of the environment and workspace of their Parisian workshop. Highly detailed and theatrically produced it provides an insight into the inspirations that drive the fashion house and how it’s philosophy transfers to interior products.
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Technology can be alienating to all generations. The lack of understanding and the lack of a desire to understand can prevent an interaction with that technology. Yesterday, on a late evening stroll down Via Savona I was enticed into a small courtyard gallery, not knowing what to expect I worked my way through the space coming across an inviting darkened door way. The press desk on the left packed with too many inquisitive sales people asking where i was from made me realise the formal nature of this exhibition.
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