'Spaces In Between' curated by Aldo Bakker for Libby Sellers

15 October- 14 December '13

London

Gallery Libby Sellers is showing Spaces In Between - a group show curated by the award-winning designer Aldo Bakker.

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'Business playground' Mathieu Lehanneur for Pullman

"Work Hard, Play Hard"

Mathieu Lehanneur and Pullman reinvents meetings with the “Business Playground” room as a perfect illustration of the “blurring” of private and professional life. This room reflects the brand’s “Work hard, Play hard” motto as well as its guests’ lifestyle.

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Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase

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Paul Cocksedge is a designer’s designer, artfully reimagining the world for us to make it a more thought-provoking and pleasing place to be. Punters can get a Cocksedge fix through his eponymous shop, which sells such items as a loudspeaker for a smartphone configured from a vinyl LP, and a spherical Styrene lamp made of heated-shrunk coffee cups).

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PAD London

16 - 20 October '13

London

The 7th edition of PAD London will run from 16-20 October on Berkeley Square and will include 21 new participants across all disciplines, making a total of 60 exhibitors from 12 countries.

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20th Century Decorative Art + Design Auction at Christie's

30 October '13

London

30th October London will witness to the annual confrontation between Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modern and Contemporary design movements, sharing the same stage at Christies' King Street venue. The auction will present an excellent variety of limited-edition pieces through over 120 lots, ideally drawing a continuum in design history from 1860 to our days and ambitiously stretching the estimates from £500-100,000.

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‘Grandmateria III’ at Gallery Libby Sellers

5 September - 5 October '13

‘Grandmateria III’ is the next chapter of a story that began with the gallery’s launch exhibition during the London Design Festival 2007. The title alludes to the mythologies of the Philosopher's stone: a stone said to have alchemical powers to transmute lead into gold.

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'Copper Mirror Series' by Amy Hunting and Oscar Narud at Gallery Libby Sellers

5 September - 5 October '13

Gallery Libby Sellers is pleased to present the Copper Mirror Series by Norwegian-born, London-based designers Amy Hunting and Oscar Narud.

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Serpentine Gallery’s 'sinuous and sensual' £14.5m expansion opens

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Zaha Hadid’s highly anticipated £14.5m extension of the Serpentine Gallery opens to the public on Saturday. Housed in a former gunpowder depot, the new Serpentine Sackler Gallery is a seven-minute walk from the main gallery.

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Phillips Design and Nordic Design Sales: Highlights

26 September '13

Phillips will start their design season with their upcoming September Design auctions, featuring around 350 lots with a combined pre-sale low estimate of £4.7m / $7.4m / €5.6m and a pre-sale high estimate of £6.7m / $10.4m / €7.9m.

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Margaret Howell supports Open House London Weekend 2013

21 – 22 September '13

Margaret Howell continues to support Open-City, the architectural education charity founded by Victoria Thornton to raise awareness and appreciation of the urban landscape. Open-City actively promotes public engagement and education programmes, encouraging a dialogue about the built environment and urban regeneration projects.

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The world's first 3D-printed gun now owned by the world's largest design museum

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"The first-ever 3D-printed gun is now on show at London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum. Dubbed "The Liberator" by its creator Cody Wilson, several examples of the gun were purchased by the art and design museum recently, and went on show September 14th, the first day of the London Design Festival.

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Mayfair House by Squire and Partners

London

Squire and Partners have completed a private house in Mayfair, London, featuring a striking bespoke leaf facade which mirrors an established Virginia Creeper on a facing building on Curzon Street.

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Svensk Form & Swedish Design at Mint

14th -30th September '13

London Design Festival

As part of the 2013 London Design Festival, Mint will curate a selection of eclectic works from across the globe in an exhibition called 'Cabinets of Curiosity'. With the help of Ewa Kumlin, Mint will collaborate with Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design), to show an exciting group of Swedish designers.

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Young Creative Poland: 4 Years On

London Design Festival 2013

London

Since the debut Young Creative Poland exhibition in 2009, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute has promoted Polish design globally at leading design festivals including Salone del Mobile in Milan, Paris’ Maison&Objet, International Furniture Fair Singapore and ICFF in New York.

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'Prehistoric' by Rick Owens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

9 September - 1 November '13

Carpenters Workshop Gallery will present 'Prehistoric' by Rick Owens at their Mayfair, London gallery this September. Owens', perhaps better known for his iconic fashion designs, has channeled his minimalist style to create a series of monochromatic furniture.

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