Carving wood, handweaving rugs, burnishing gold, handmaking plaster reliefs and upholstering chairs were among the crafts that came to west London this week among the international exhibitors at Decorex in Syon Park and rapidly became some of the stars of the show. The other stars were the new designers displaying their work in Craftworks, a new initiative for 2018, and Future Heritage, curated by Corinne Julius, which is always a highlight of Decorex and this year included Rebecca de Quin’s ingenious flexible metalwork, James Shaw’s furniture created from post-consumer plastics (a growing theme across the different design shows in London this week), Jochen Holt’s flowing neon lights, Katrin Spranger’s exquisite metalwork which is designed to draw attention to the increasing difficulties in providing the world’s population with clean healthy water and Kaori Tatebayashi’s beautiful ceramics, combining tradition forms with contemporary design.
Also, to give visitors inspiration, having seen the huge number of different exhibitors attending Decorex, four designers – Studio Suss, Brian Woulfe, Henry Prideaux and Maddux Creative created four stylistically-varied rooms at the entrance/exit of the show.
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