The barriers are out, the bouncers are standing outside and the doors are open, but, hold on a moment, it’s the middle of the day and there isn’t the normal throbbing sound of deep base notes vibrating through the old building.  Who goes to a nightclub in the middle of the day apart from the facilities staff?  But there is a constant movement of people in and out of Fabric, the well-known London nightclub established in 1999 in the former Metropolitan Cold Stores opposite Smithfield Meat Market. 

Entering under flowing waves of flying leaves (a bone china sculpture by Haberdashery) , and winding up and down the staircases that join the three separate club spaces in this quirky building, the visitor finds “Icon’s House of Culture” as part of Clerkenwell Design Week with a selection of top international lighting and furniture companies showing their designs in this unique environment with exposed industrial brick walls and metal ducts for the essential ventilation, plus vacant soundbooths and static glitterballs awaiting the return of night and the arrival of the disc-jockeys.