London Design Festival: Eight things to look out for at designjunction

In its new location in King's Cross, designjunction exhibits the latest trends for interiors from modular seating to textured lighting and stylish technology

The exterior of The Cubbit House has been designed by Satellite Architects in collaboration with Icons of Denmark (all pictures Sky Moore-Clube)

London Design Festival’s designjunction, in its new location in Central St Martin’s Granary Square in the radically revitalised King’s Cross, showcases the best design in lighting, furniture and homewares.

Opening today and running until Sunday, more than 200 brands exhibit their latest designs, split across the four locations – Granary Square, Cubitt House, The Crossing and The Canopy.

Cubitt House accommodates more than 100 international furniture and lighting brands. The exterior, which has been created to allow tree foliage to grow through the cubes, has been designed by Satellite Architects in collaboration with Danish designers, Icons of Denmark, who stole the show.


 Icons of Denmark designs Scanidnavian inspired furniture 
 (Sky Moore-Clube)

Find them on the upper floor, with sleek lounge chairs including the Tembo – inspired by the ears of African elephants – and the organically curvaceous Swoon in shades of teal and grey from £2,000. Complementing the seating are glamorous coffee tables with wire legs. The Deck tables match sophisticated materials, with two layers in contrasting brass and white Carrara marble.

Deadgood's new range include two modular designs (Sky Moore-Clube)

Modern British designer, Deadgood, combines comfort with its modular designs. The Scafell sofa is its latest design, made up of six sections and variations in back heights and depths, available from November for around £4,000.

VITA Copenhagen’s ripples curve, cusp and slop lights (Sky Moore-Clube)

Downstairs, the ground floor is dominated by creative lighting. VITA Copenhagen focuses on Danish heritage with simplistic designs that come in compact gift boxes. The designs are mixed between pendent hanging lights from the white textured rippled lights to the acorn design that come in either brass, copper and steel, both £55.

The Ultra Short Throw Projector showing the ticking time (Sky Moore-Clube)

Sony embraces innovation with a portable Glass Tube Speaker, which looks more like a lantern and works via Bluetooth, giving 360-degrees of sound. It comes with a hefty price tag at around £800. Its second product is the portable Ultra Short Throw Projector, which can project images (and sound) on to any surface to watch films, show photos or tell the time.

Dana Finnigan is based in Glasgow and creates interior surface designs (Sky Moore-Clube)

Despite being only 10cm tall, it can project images up to a size of 200cm and down to 55cm, and comes at the same price.

The Canopy has a pop-up with 70 high-end retailers, covering ceramics, stationary, lighting and fashion. Look out for loud fabric prints created by Dana Finnigan, contemporary woven blankets from Anna-Lisa Smith and Another Studio’s angular homewares, from plant pots to lampshades inspired by origami.

Back outside, next to the dancing fountains in the main square, is Dezeen’s pop-up watch store. As the first collaboration with Swedish brand Void, the range combines Scandi minimalism with functionality in a series of limited edition timepieces.

Designjunction runs from 22-25 September. Find tickets at thedesignjunction.co.uk