Where to shop at London Design Festival: from brand launches and pop-ups to the coolest new products and cutting-edge technology

London Design Festival will give you the urge to splurge on fab homeware.

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Barbara Chandler18 September 2019

Running until Sunday with 400 listings, London Design Festival is a wonderful shopping opportunity for design lovers.

Find launches, shows, talks, workshops and demos in most design stores, plus pop-ups.

The Canopy

Granary Square, N1C (thedesignjunction.co.uk)

There are 60 niche brands here but you’ll need a £15 ticket. Get one half price online with our reader offer using code DJ500. Open until Sunday, with late night to 8pm tomorrow.

Canopy vase from the Eden Collection in sustainable glass from LSA International (LSA International at Aria)

For discounts this weekend, collect a sticker from the Elle Decoration Café.

Watch out for sustainable sofas from Sofa For Life; flat-pack furniture from Nomad London; Somerset design store Kobi & Teal bringing independent makers; handcrafted furniture in wood from Brook Studio; Chalk Woven, with traditional designs in merino wool; Abalon porcelain candle collection; Majeda Clarke, with handwoven textiles, and British ceramic artist Emma Alington.

SCP

135-139 Curtain Road, EC2​ (020 7739 1869; scp.co.uk)

Founder of the supercool SCP store Sheridan Coakley is the godfather of the Shoreditch Triangle.

Buy luminescent Calico wallpaper, new from the US, plus an eagerly awaited chair by Matthew Hilton. Sarah Kay updates the trestle with an oak dining table.

The Pillar sofa, short for caterpillar, is very curvy. Raami glasses by Jasper Morrison and Iitala have a tactile ridged surface in smoky shades.

SCP is also now in Pimlico, with a “Bauhaus” tea set by Bethan Laura Wood.

Twentytwentyone

18c River Street, EC1 (twentytwentyone.com)

Simon Alderson and Tony Cunningham have been selling modern/vintage design since 1996, so they certainly know their stuff. You’ll love their celebratory Edit’19, until Sunday, of reissued classics and fresh launches.

The Conran Shop

Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, SW3 (020 7589 7401; conranshop.co.uk)

Brand collaboration: Ad Infinitum window installation by The Conran Shop and Sella Concept

Art meets shopping in Ad Infinitum, by design duo Sella Concept, until Sunday. Mirrors and aluminium create endless reflections of modern classics by the Eameses, Hans J Wegner and Eero Saarinen.

Tomorrow there’s a free party until 9pm — reserve your place at eventbrite.co.uk

Mint

2 North Terrace, SW3​ (until September 30, 020 7225 2228; mintshop.co.uk)

Lina Kanafani has made cutting-edge design for decades. This autumn, an ambitious, environmentally friendly show called RAW at Mint hosts more than 60 unconventional designers

Store Store

118 Lower Stable Street N1C (storeprojects.org)

Jesmonite bookends patterned with soundwaves, and textured tumblers, support a social project.

More than 30 leading London creatives, including designers, architects, artists, writers and engineers, host after-school workshops for young people from state schools.

Buy products using cutting-edge technology, such as a porcelain vase moulded from 3D-printed shapes.

Rachel Entwistle Store

5a Club Row, E1 (020 3566 8777; rachelentwistle.co.uk)

This avant-garde jeweller is selling printed hemp textiles, from £30 for scarves and cushion covers, plus ceramics, with small dishes from £12, to complement her new designs based on Miro’s constellations.

Have a go at hand-building ceramics in an evening workshop tomorrow. Phone for a place.

Kam Ce Kam

30 Redchurch Street, E1 (07885 993076; kamcekam.com)

Jehanara Knowles, from London and New Delhi, brings elegant contemporary furniture traditionally made in India. Find fine woodwork, intricate caning, metalware, marble marquetry and more.

Aria

Barnsbury Hall, 2B Barnsbury Street, N1 (ariashop.co.uk)

Founded 20 years ago, vintage and designer furnishings and accessories shop Aria is now at home in an 1858 meeting hall with original beamed roof.

Currently showing “the beauty of botany,” Outside In includes terrariums by Botanical Boys, sculptural air-plant hangers by Hali-Ann Tooms Studio, and recycled glass planters by LSA.

Milagros

61 Columbia Road, E2 (020 7613 0876; milagros.co.uk).

Clay carafes from a collection at Milagros Mexican shop in Columbia Road, E2

A store for all things Mexican, tomorrow from 6pm-9pm Milagros will serve mescal refined tequila and Mexican beers to celebrate La Muerte Tiene Permiso’s handmade terracotta and burnished black clay with founder Omar Ortiz Franco. First drink is free.