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The South London Gallery has been based in Peckham, south London, since the 1890s, however in September, 2018 they added to their collection of art spaces with the opening of the Fire Station – a new art space in a ve...
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The South London Gallery has been based in Peckham, south London, since the 1890s, however in September, 2018 they added to their collection of art spaces with the opening of the Fire Station – a new art space in a ve...
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What do you get when you combine a university with a world leading art department, a young radical group of architects who won a Turner Prize and a nineteenth century bathhouse? The answer, surprisingly enough is the ...
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The Hayward Gallery within an art complex known as the Southbank Centre is part of a cultural heritage that dates back to 1951. The Southbank Centre grew out of the Festival of Britain, a festival to show the world th...
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In Shinjuku, Tokyo, a rather extraordinary building has appeared. Located not a great distance from Waseda and Ushigome Yanagicho stations, on a street full of the rather typical buildings you can see in any part of t...
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Newport Street Gallery is the culmination of Damien Hirst’s dream to have a permanent space in order to display his collection of art as well as hold exhibitions. It is one of the more exciting galleries to have opene...
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Damien Hirst is arguably one of the most well-known artists in the UK, and since breaking out onto the art scene in the 1990s he has stamped his mark onto the concept of being an artist. His work has had times courted...
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Keiko Nishiyama is a delightful young lady working as a designer. She first came to my attention through Fitflop, together with this company she designed iconic shoes some lines of which sold out very quickly. She inv...
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For me a journey to the Barbican venue in London always immediately begins from Barbican tube station. From this point there is a long underground tunnel which leads to the main entrance, as the Barbican is on the out...
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Yasutoshi Ezumi has previously worked for Alexander McQueen and as a knitwear designer for Aquascutum, and he studied for his BA at Central Saint Martins in London. His latest collection was inspired by Eames House, a...
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Kan Yasuda is originally from Bibai in Hokkaido and studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He has a studio in Pietrasanta in nothern Italy and in Japan...
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Iina Vurorivirta is from Finland and this year she was Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2013. She has been exhibiting internationally since 2010 and her work encompasses an impressive range of materia...
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In 2003 the London Design Festival took place for the first time and since then it has become one of the world’s most important design event. This year 304 exhibitions and events took place around London; this helps r...