Talk to anyone about design and the furniture industry in the UK and you'll quickly come to realise that while the British Isles may be home to an enviable wealth of design talent. It ain't home to that many producers of quality, contemporary furniture. Or at least anymore. Whereas, for example, the early years of "British Design 1948-2012. Innovation in the Modern Age" at the V&A feature regular examples of British produced furniture, the later years are all but bereft of such. Britain
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As reported elsewhere in these pages, there is a great deal of hope in the UK that the 2012 Summer Olympics will provide fresh impulse for the UK design industry. Something we doubt. But then, what do we know. No honestly. What do we know? And so we've taken the opportunity in recent weeks to talk to some people who are much better placed than us to asses the situation, not just in terms of the opportunities presented by the Olympics, but more generally about the state of the UK design
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The V&A Museum London exhibition "British Design 1948-2012" pretty much does what it says on the tin. It reviews British Design from 1948 to 2012. But how does the future look ? Where is British design going ? What issues are important? Where do the coming generation of designers see their futures ? Answers to these and similar questions can be found in the newly published "21 Designers for twenty-first century Britain" by Gareth Williams. Profiling designers and design studios such as Raw
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At the end of March the V&A Museum London opened the exhibition "British Design 1948-2012. Innovation in the Modern Age", their major summer exhibition and a central pillar of their celebration of all things British throughout 2012. Documenting the story of design in the UK since the last London Olympics, "British Design 1948-2012" begins in an era when Britain as a nation was recovering from the trauma of the Second World War, yet understood that in the rubble of the war lay the chance to
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