New Faces
Three pop-up showrooms at Focus/18 bring a burst of new talent to Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour – spaces that will remain in-situ until mid-October. House of Hackney, known for its audacious approach to pattern, set up on the ground floor of the North Dome with a darkly glamorous showroom (pictured). The designs of its fabrics, wallpapers, lighting and furniture are steeped in tradition but also bold, colourful and highly imaginative: new products that mine the archive of French design house Zuber are the perfect introduction to its work. In Design Space, Alice Lily Interiors introduced a curated collection of international brands, including Brooklyn-based Avo, which has a boundary-pushing approach to leather, including scallop-shaped tiles for the wall and printed hides; and textiles and wallpaper from San Francisco’s Seemakrish. Finally, Dutch textile artist Matthias De Vogel, who works under the name Fault Lines, showed his work in a pop-up in collaboration with The Yarn Collective: highlights included his highly textured ‘Barn Rugs’.
