It's an exciting time for design connoisseurs to be in London right now. Close on the heels of the伦敦设计双年展and the London Design Festival, this week will see the inauguration of the London Design Fair. And in all, especially the last one, India is sure making her presence felt. The fair, which is on for four days at the Old Truman Brewey in East London, will have big brands and small outfits from different parts of the world rubbing shoulders. In this year's edition, too, international participation is, as usual, strong. From China to Scotland to Portugal to Norway, the world will be in attendance at LDF 2016.
However, a major focus this time lies on India—who has been invited to be the first official annual guest country pavilion. Called “This is India”, the pavilion featuring the works of twelve Indian designers will be co-curated by Jimmy MacDonald, founder-director, LDF and Spandana Gopal, founder of London-based consultanty Tiipoi. Supported by Indelust, an online retailer that curates sustainable art and home goods from emerging South Asian artisans, the pavilion space has been designed by Kangan Arora. The London-based designer's pavilion design comprises 500 hand-painted terracotta pots—via which she is trying to pay homage to the “ancient astronomical instruments and jagged geometries” of the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. “The visual concept is based on the narrative of repetition. When you travel around the country, something that you often notice along the roadside is the theme of repetition and stacking–I've seen everything from huge towers of freshly cast bricks, colourfully dyed paper stacks drying in the sun, sandbags, vegetable oil tins and yes, terracotta pots,” says Arora, "It was this simple act of utilitarian products stacked in repetitive forms that inspired me with the pavilion, it says something about the scale and necessity of creation in India."
这是谁哟u will see at the This is India Pavilion:
