Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has designed a collection for Se London. We loved this Tambor coffee table, spotted at their Knightsbridge pop-up shop during the London Design Festival. “The drum is the essential instrument around which others revolve, and so it is with the Tambor table, a round symbol of conviviality.” The Tambor is composed of a single monumental lacquered steel base and either a carrara or marquina marble top.
http://www.se-london.com/tambor/

Benchmark never fail to impress with their timeless designs and dedication to materials and craftsmanship. This year their Berkshire workshop came to London for London Design Festival, with the team setting up shop at the Tramshed. A Suzy Hoodless favourite is the Camberwell Writing Desk; elegant and practical.
http://www.benchmarkfurniture.com/

It doesn’t get better than this.  Candida Hofer is a German based photographer who specialises in large format photographs of empty interior spaces.  The scale and detail of the images as well as her chosen locations make her work seriously collectable.

www.candidahofer.co.uk

Bardot sofa from Jaime Hayon was another firm favourite from Bernhardt Design.  We would use it on both a commercial and a residential project, it’s pitched perfectly, glamorous and contemporary.

www.bernhardtdesign.com

Studio Toogood presented an eclectic mix for London Design Festival. Beside door furniture based on bones and stones were the newly launched furniture collection. The installation was juxtaposed with sights and smells of the woodland; Mrs Tee’s wild mushrooms, foraged from the New Forest. No guesses as to what was for dinner that evening.
http://www.wildmushrooms.co.uk/
http://www.studiotoogood.com/

The L-Bar at Andaz, designed and constructed by Markus Bergstrom and Joe Nunn, was the perfect place to get a drink while on the festival trail in east London. Not only were the drinks free, but Libby Sellers’ bar was also a witty piece of design. The ‘bar’, a structure more at home by the side of a field than amidst the chaos of Liverpool Street, was a welcome addition to the pavement, and there wasn’t even a queue.
http://www.glasshill.co.uk/GH_main.html
http://www.libbysellers.com/

We love the simplicity of these Circus Lights by Warm. A modern industrial aesthetic, with the shape based on a circus tent. All the fun of the circus but with a subtlety not normally found in the big top.
http://www.warmproducts.com/

This is a great example of a rebranding of a product and it couldn’t be a more simple and natural one.  Handcrafted active charcoal which naturally purifies air, water and body. Known as ‘White Charcoal’, this company have taken a beautiful natural material and created simple, contemporary products for the home.
Much better looking than a Britta filter.
http://sortofcoal.com/

Check out Another Country
Another Country makes contemporary craft furniture. The designs are archetypal, calling on the familiar and unpretentious forms of British Country kitchen style, Shaker, traditional Scandinavian and Japanese woodwork. “It’s the spirit and functionality of these honest forms of furniture that we endeavor to re-interpret for a modern customer.”

We need be nostalgic for Tom Dixon’s Jack light no longer. This ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’ has always represented the early 1990’s design boom to us; a cool, contemporary form and straightforward  (plastic) manufacture. The Jack has been reintroduced in its original form for a new generation – it still does all the same things but these days is a ready-made piece of furniture history.