Five furniture design highlights from Clerkenwell Design Week 2019
With Clerkenwell Design Week in full swing, design editor Augusta Pownall picks out five of the best new furniture designs showing there, including a height-adjustable stool and a bench designed by Foster + Partners.
Clerkenwell Design Week is a three-day festival that sees design events take place all over the small London district, which is home to many architecture studios and furniture showrooms.
This year's event takes place from 21 to 23 May, at venues including nightclub Fabric, St James Church and a former prison.
Here's our pick of the five best new products on show:
Embrace table by EOOS for Carl Hansen & Son
Austrian design trio EOOS has added to its Embrace collection with "unconventional and sculptural" circular-topped dining and lounge tables, designed to encourage communication between people. A steel wire structure is used in place of legs, joining the round wooden top with the cross-shaped base.
"The tables have a distinctive, sculptural expression that provides optimal functionality, as the table legs have been pulled into the centre to maximise legroom," explained Carl Hansen & Son CEO, Knud Erik Hansen.
New dining chairs have also been added to the Embrace collection.
Grid seating system by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Established & Sons
This modular seating system by the Bouroullec brothers is one of four new designs from British brand Established & Sons. Each product is designed for the workplace, but to also f...
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