What's on: London Design Festival highlights - free pop-ups, parties and shows on this week
This year's London Design Festival is in full swing, with rooftop parties, pop-up shops and hundreds of events across the capital. There's still plenty left to see before it ends on Sunday - here's a round-up of the highlights:
September 20: Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road in W1 stages a party night from 6.30pm open to all with music, drinks, designers and workshops. Next door at Habitat another party launches stylish new products with their designers on hand. Make a bone china bauble with designer/illustrator Charlene Mullen, 7 Calvert Avenue, E2, 11am-5.30pm.
September 20-22: at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, Focus design fair has talks, workshops, tours and a champagne bar.
September 21: at Central Saint Martins at designjunction, Granary Square, N1C, hone your design/drawing skills and more for free with experts from the college. Hear the future of design from Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic at Poltrona Frau, 4pm at 147-153C Fulham Road, SW3.
Tour new Czech ceramics and glass at the V&A with the artists, then visit Czech projects nearby from 12.15pm to 1.15pm. Curator Daniel Charny and panel debate “social design” at The Hour Glass pub in Brompton Road, 2:30-3:45pm. Woodwork and leather craft demos are at Smallbone, 6/7 Thurloe Place, with a pasta masterclass 4-8pm.
September 22: designer/artist Pascal Hechem explores Lebanese culture and design through food at the V&A from 5.15pm-6.15pm.
September 23: at the Old Truman Brewery, E1, turn a welly into a phone case with Francli. Explore bloomon’s free floral tunnel in Granary Square, N1C, then make your own bouquet for £27, including cocktail.
September 23-24: South East Makers Club, with designers and makers of Greenwich, Woolwich and Deptford, puts on shows, talks and demos. Make a terrarium or a stool, print a textile or bind a book. Round off the festival with a design pub quiz.
September 24: the Old Truman Brewery offers The Art of Making & Manufacturing with acrylic jewellers Tatty Devine.