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London Craft Week supported by The Interior Design Showcase
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Integrating craft into architecture and interior design
London Craft Week is five days of events around London held by artisans and crafts people.
With growing interest from architects and interior designers in the longevity and meaningfulness that crafts can bring to the modern built environment, London Craft Week provides the opportunity to delve into some fascinating historic and contemporary crafts whilst meeting the craftspeople during demonstrations, tours and talks.
Here are just a few architects’ and interior designers’ favourites...
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Making the Modern Using the Traditional: The Materiality of Mosque and Church
Shahed Saleem and and Alex Sherratt, architects of Shahporan Mosque Hackney and Mildmay Shoreditch Tabernacle respectively, offer a visit to these buildings, sharing insights on how a religious site can capture community identity. A Barakat Trust event.
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Carol Rutter, interior designer at i.d.space interior design has selected this event as her favourite:
Tour of Spencer House with Ben Bacon, Carver and Gilder
A rare opportunity to view the elegant neoclassical interiors of Spencer House with Ben Bacon, carver and gilder, who helped restore the house to its 18th century grandeur.
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Nigel Scorer, Director at Contents Interior & Graphic Design Ltd. has chosen this event as a favourite:
Spot the Difference! Rebuilding Battersea Power Station’s Iconic
Chimneys
Hear how the world’s most recognisable chimneys at Battersea Power Station were carefully deconstructed
and restored to their former glory using original techniques, painstaking precision and some inventive solutions.
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Making the Normal Special: A Dinner with Studioilse and Lobmeyr
Studioilse opens up its Bermondsey studio to host a special dinner with master Viennese
glassmakers Lobmeyr. Their collaboration, Drinking set no. 286, is designed to amplify and accentuate the experience of drinking.
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Jecks Lea, Interior Designer at Persona Abode has chosen as her favourite:
The Art of Repair: Kintsugi at wagumi.
Wagumi’s popular kintsugi workshops offer the chance to connect with the Japanese art of repair. Kintsugi
practitioner Iku Nishikawa gives an introduction to how, with traditional techniques, broken ceramics can attain a beautiful afterlife.
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Daniel Groves, Creative Director at The Interior Design Showcase has chosen this event as his favourite:
The Making of the Blaschka Glass Models
Join Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustaceans, and Elizabeth Welch, a glass artist as they discuss the intricate Blaschka glass marine animal models in the Natural History Museum's collection.
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Lola Adeokun, Architect & Researcher at Colman Architects Ltd has chosen as her favourite:
The Stone Mason: An Insider’s History of Britain’s Buildings.
Andrew Ziminski offers a unique account of his life as a craftsman and his work on some of the most significant churches and cathedrals in England, including St Paul's Cathedral.
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Nigel Scorer, Director at Contents Interior & Graphic Design Ltd. has also chosen this event as a favourite:
Battersea Power Station Presents: Woven Waste – A Second-Life Installation from a Regenerating Site
Battersea Power Station hosts a large-scale woven installation made from repurposed construction waste materials by Monica Cass of par-avion co. and Claire Potter Design, which highlights the sustainable management of construction waste on their Phase II site.
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Oliver Townsend, Architectural Assistant at Fletcher Priest Architects has chosen this event as his favourite:
Unveiling an Intricately Crafted Bronze Stainless Steel Stairway
An installation rising through the heart of The Gaslight, a redeveloped historic building in Fitzrovia. A presentation is given by the fabricators, architects and developer to provide insight into this unique project, where high quality craftsmanship is embedded into the fabric of the building.
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