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To celebrate the relaunch of Let Them Eat Cake, the cult fashion magazine has teamed up with new East London hotspot XOYO, to host COVER STORY an exhibition that traces the development of fashion through magazine front pages.

Last Thursday we attended the private view, which fell just before London Fashion Week kicked off. The exhibition showcased ten of the magazine’s most iconic front pages, including early photographs of models including Daisy Lowe, and shots from some of the world’s rising photographers. COVER STORY puts the fashion industry in the spotlight, and examines it from the development of trends to the future of design.

XOYO is an exciting, dynamic new venue that plays the perfect host to this captivating exhibition.

The exhibition runs until March 4th.

When we discovered that Sebastian Bergne was creating a pop-up dine and design concept experience, you can imagine our excitement. Good food and good design, what could be better?

Industrial designer and RCA tutor Bergne is no stranger to the world of food having made several tabletop items, glassware and even a bespoke ice-cream machine for chef Heston Blumenthal. Bergne’s exhibition, entitled A Table, will deliberately showcase the pieces in a relaxed, informal environment. By day, all the objects will be on display but by night guests will sit down, choose from a delicious menu and use and interact with Bergne’s work to eat with. The experience is unique, exciting and mouth-wateringly good.  We can’t wait!

A Table runs from February 23rd – March 8th

Dinners on 28th February, 2nd and 8th March; £50 per person, including wine.

Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU, T. 020 7221 0100

Comprising over 10,000 household possessions, Waste Not is a tribute to Song Dong’s mother, Zhao Xiangyuan, who made this extraordinary collection over a period of five decades. The activity of saving and re-using objects of all kinds is in keeping with the Chinese adage wu jin qi yong – waste not.

Song Dong’s mother died suddenly in 2009, but each time Song Dong remakes the work – assisted by his sister, Song Hui, and his wife Yin Xiuzhen – memories are rekindled and personal family objects are rediscovered. In each iteration of Waste Not (the Barbican installation is the eighth) the objects vary slightly, as different possessions are re-discovered and others kept back.

Even the overall layout of each installation of Waste Not varies – at the Barbican, the shape of the gallery presented Song Dong with the opportunity to create a landscape of discovery; as you walk amongst the family possessions following the building’s curve, more of the exhibition reveals itself. Small groups of objects fascinate; the perfect folded triangles of saved plastic carrier bags; a collection of paintbrushes; tied bundles of fabric scraps and the patched and worn dining chairs. Well-loved soft toys are presented on a mountain-like range of saved cardboard boxes and polystyrene packaging. Many of the objects are dirty, broken, faded or rusty, but nothing feels like rubbish. Waste Not is a touching and poignant show; a story of shared family endeavour, love, loss and eventual order amongst chaos.

See more images and a full review on FADwebsite.

Song Dong: Waste Not
The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
15 February – 12 June 2012
Admission FREE

They’ve been described as ‘the Oscars of the design world’ and with big names from all design disciplines – from architecture to transport – the nominees list for Designs of the Year is one that everyone wants to be on.

As big fans of his work, we were delighted to discover that Stefan Diez is on the list. His design for Chassis echoes everything that we have loved in his previous collaborations with e15, Thonet and Gandia Blasco: abstract organic form, minimalism and refined furniture design.

We have everything crossed for him!

Amongst the nominees in the furniture category include an earthquake-proof table designed by Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno, and the Lightwood chair conceived by British designer Jasper Morrison for Maruni.

An exhibition showcasing the works by all the nominees across each category is on at the Design Museum in London until 15th July, with the winner being announced in April.

For more information, click here.

On a recent trip to New York, I was overwhelmed and inspired in equal measure by Bergdorf Goodman’s Christmas windows. They are a visual feast; a fantasy of designer-clad beauties and a menagerie of beasts. Each window has a theme – Teacher’s Pets is a 3-D classroom, filled with black & white life-sized paper animals; The Brass Menagerie features tropical birds, toucans and parrots in copper and brass, and Breaking the Ice represents an Arctic garden party, complete with a moose head made of white rope, and a fringed polar bear. You can read more about this year’s windows and their themes here.

Proud To Announce.

Here at Industry Publicity we are thrilled to have taken on a new client, the Italian ceramic tile company Refin. With a state of the art factory in Bologna and a new showroom in Milan they are pioneers in the art of ceramic tiles, producing more than 6 million square metre tiles per year. Working with illustrious designers  as Michele De Lucchi, Elio Fiorucci, Karim Rashid, Alessandro Mendini, Mario Bellini, Krizia and Vivienne Westwood. We look forward to working on exciting new projects with them on the run up to their 50th anniversary in 2012.

To discover more on Refin visit http://www.refin-ceramic-tiles.com/

Burgbad Romance

Here at Industry Publicity we love nothing more than the idea of sinking into a luxurious bath to relax and unwind after a hard day’s graft. Lucky for us we have Burgbad on hand to help make that dream become a reality.

To find out more on what they have to offer, visit them at http://www.burgbad.com/uk/en/home/

Registration is now live for 100% Design.  400 exhibitors over 4 days and thousands of launches. Sign up and see what will be happening 22-25 September at Earls Court. Great British design, international pavilions, seminars and installations.

www.100percentdesign.co.uk

Sheffield based design agency Peter & Paul have unveiled the new creative campaign for 100% Design.  The Head is a larger than life model filled with furniture, lighting and product designs from 100% Design.  See the Head at the show and in media across the globe over the next few months.

www.100percentdesign.co.uk

www.peterandpaul.co.uk

2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards

We’ve always loved film, fashion, and celebrities, but we may have taken this adoration to a whole new level when we attended the Orange BAFTA Awards red carpet last week at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Despite the rain, we were in good spirits around 5 p.m. when the crowd began to make a lot of noise as a familiar head of red hair was spotted; Rupert Grint had arrived.  The Harry Potter actor was just the beginning as more cars pulled up and more famous faces approached us. Actors such as Julianne Moore (on the arm of Tom Ford), Mark Ruffalo, James McAvoy (swoon), Dominic Cooper (double swoon) all stopped by to take pictures and sign autographs.

However, all hell may have broken loose when Sir Paul McCartney, Emma Watson, and the king himself Colin Firth, all showed up in quick succession. Sir Paul bounced around and signed a few books (not ours unfortunately), and gave us a thumbs up. Cheesy? Perhaps. But we’ll take anything a Beatle gives us.

Colin Firth, looking lovely and dapper as always, did give us his signature. After expressing our thanks at signing our book, he may or may not have called us “love.” We may or may not have melted on the spot.

Emma Watson was her usual gorgeous self and we decided we like her haircut now that we’ve seen it up close. And we mean really close.