I
mentioned that some of the events and exhibitions held as part of the
London Design Festival weren't commercial enough -
100% Design at Earl's Court was probably on the other end of the scale, with all it's high-budget corporate stands and weighty press kits.
I liked
Stephen Johnson's 'Happy Happy' chrome/aluminium bows. Commercial, at £3,000 each and similar in style to the works of
Jeff Koons, Stephen was refreshingly forward about his inspiration - A bow is a commercial 'folly' intended purely to look pretty and make people happy. Like the work by
Dixit, I think it sits at the design end of the Art-Design scale, and is certainly less twee than his
other work.