Reduce, re-use, recycle. Reinvent. Hoxton Square concept store, KK Outlet, went on a mission to discover how differently we might work if we removed ourselves from the calculated world of machines and computers, for a change, and utilised our own hands and imaginations to create: A number of London's leading designers, artists and stylists were approached and challenged to repurpose everyday or found objects with this physicality in mind, creating entirely new items using as little additional materials as possible. Banana boxes transformed into bicycle mud-guards, paella pans into side tables, handle-bars into chandeliers, estate-agent signs into birdhouses, paintbrushes into coat hooks…and the list goes on.

As part of London's famed Design Week taking place in September, all the new creations will be on display at KK Outlet in a show entitled Object Abuse, and will feature pieces from the likes of Alexander Taylor, Dominic Wilcox, Michael Marriott, F.A.T, Peter Marigold and Max Lamb, to name a few. All the work is for sale through a silent auction, with the proceeds going to St Monica's of Hackney Primary School Art Department.

Next time, you'll think twice before you throw out those old wooden spoons.

Object Abuse is on at KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6PB until 25 September.


Links:
http://www.kkoutlet.com/art/2011/object-abuse
http://www.alexandertaylor.com/collection/punch.html
http://www.dominicwilcox.com/
http://www.michaelmarriott.com/
http://fashionarchitecturetaste.com/
http://maxlamb.org/

Like Jake Dyson's previous highly-engineered wall and floor lights, the new CSYS LED Task Light shows  serious attention to detail. In this case Dyson has honed his attention on precision and control of heat, durability colour and the distribution of light. All while avoiding the environmental issues caused by the use of mercury in CFL, so better inducing an inner glow for the user too.

According to Jake, while LEDs always ran cooler than any other household lights, heat can still damage the diodes, so an efficient cooling system makes his new light last even longer. His solution - to incorporate heat pipes - normally used in laptops to stop them from burning our thighs - is a pretty smart one.

Beyond obscure technical details for experts, we can vouch that the CSYS is an LED lamp put together properly, with thought and style. And the best bit - because long life and coolness counts for nothing if it makes your light cold and harsh - this doesn't make our rooms look like fluorescent-lit fridges either.

Not content with just having a good name to begin with, Faye Toogood has rapidly made a great name for herself on the interiors circuit in recent years, as a stylist and now as a furniture designer, and here at Because we now are hotly anticipating her third furniture collection.

Set to launch during the London Design Festival in September, the collection is called 'Delicate Interference', and will be available exclusively through Phillips de Pury & Company.

Right on trend, as the former Decoration Editor at World of Interiors is apt to be, Delicate Interference "examines the natural, optical force of iridescence" in a range of pieces in bronze, aluminium, steel, glass and resin. By "natural, optical, force of iridescence" we're only guessing that it is channeling the multihued marvels that are butterflies and beetles, rainbows and the likes, but either way the results are very pretty.

The collection comprises a dressing table, a floor light, a wall sconce, an oil resin cube, and a mobile as well as updated versions of the Spade Chair, Spade Stool and Element Table from the second range. The exhibition will be on view to the public from 16 September until 4 October 2011 at the Phillips de Pury space at Claridge's, 45 - 47 Brook Street, London W1.

http://www.studiotoogood.com/

http://www.phillipsdepury.com/

http://www.londondesignfestival.com /