London Design Festival

flowerball by heath nash


styrene lamp by paul cocksedge


i wanted the exhibition to tell a story so pieces were selected to highlight different approaches to the concept behind trash luxe, which is that designers today are subverting the notion of 'luxury' goods by employing cheap or worthless materials to make precious, unique and expensive pieces.

people have interpreted the show as being about recycling but it's more than that: it's about finding beauty in
unexpected places and about challenging conventional notions of value. the pieces in trash luxe are definitely luxurious but the quality of luxury derives from the beauty of the pieces, the skill of construction, the story thefound objects have to tell, the time it takes to make the pieces, the rarity or fragility of the pieces etc

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