24 h. ago Sadiq Khan launches £10m investment in London's creative industries

City Hall expects funding to leverage £2.5bn in film investment alone, with British Fashion Council and London Design Festival among those to benefit

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52 h. ago A Bespoke Headquarters in London Fosters Connection + Community

A Bespoke Headquarters in London Fosters Connection + Community  Design Milk

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53 h. ago Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned recordbreaker – Splash! review

Design Museum, LondonThis illuminating exhibition about all things swimming charts the birth of the bikini, its rapid shrinkage, lovely lidos – and the costumes that went too farFour days after a nuclear bomb was first detonated over the Pacific islands of Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the French designer Louis Réard launched a provocative two-piece swimsuit at a poolside party in Paris. The two events might not seem to be connected. But Réard, who had been looking for a name for his design that would embody the tiniest garment imaginable, combined with the most explosive impact possible, hit on the almighty atomic blast as the ideal symbol. And so the modern bikini was born.The world’s first bikini now hangs on a mannequin in the Design Museum in London, looking decidedly less earth-shattering than it did back then. Formed from baggy triangles of pink fabric, printed with a newspaper pattern and tied together with string, it looks a bit like someone has fashioned a quick cossie out of...

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58 h. ago One half of French+Tye photography duo opens the doors to his own home

Maximising natural light and family-friendly design were top priorities for architectural photographer Dom French’s own renovation

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59 h. ago London's 'it' design photographer opens the doors to his own home

Maximising natural light and family-friendly design were top priorities for architectural photographer Dom French’s own renovation

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61 h. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips  The Guardian

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61 h. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resort’s huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. “This sounds quite pretentious, but it’s this idea of becoming one with the horizon,” says Butchart. “It’s almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when you’re immersed in water. It’s transformational.”Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britain’s lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Merma...

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4 d. ago London’s ‘it’ design photographer throws open the doors to his own home

Maximising natural light and family-friendly design were top priorities for architectural photographer Dom French’s own renovation

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4 d. ago London’s ‘it’ design photographers French + Tye throw open the doors to their own home

Maximising natural light and family-friendly design were top priorities for photography duo French+Tye’s own renovation

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1 week ago The London Underground station with a really unfortunate design choice

The London Underground station with a really unfortunate design choice  Yahoo News UK

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1 week ago 8 of the Best Private Members' Clubs in London That Pass the Design Vibe Check

8 of the Best Private Members' Clubs in London That Pass the Design Vibe Check  LivingEtc

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2 w. ago It's London Design Week — These Are the Talks From Interior Designers You Won't Want to Miss

It's London Design Week — These Are the Talks From Interior Designers You Won't Want to Miss  Yahoo Life

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3 w. ago Mailen Design takes cues from Victorian London for Lee Terrace house

Mailen Design takes cues from Victorian London for Lee Terrace house  Dezeen

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3 w. ago London exhibition explores design based on needs of nature and animals

Curator of Design Museum show says ‘human-centric’ approach to design needs overhaul amid climate crisisDesigners need to “fundamentally rethink our relationship with the natural world”, according to the curator of a new exhibition which argues the needs of nature and animals should be considered when creating homes, buildings and products.Justin McGuirk, the curator of the upcoming More Than Human exhibition at the Design Museum in London, said our current “human-centric” approach to design needs to be radically overhauled as the world adapts to the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What to do in March: London interiors events, design exhibitions and homewares launches

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