A ceramicist turns a household house in an inspiring design exhibition at London Design Competition 2025

A stone’s throw from Hyde Park in west London, a sublime post-war townhouse turns into an uncommon exhibition house for London Design Competition this yr. Each household house and work studio of ceramicist Emma Louise Payne, the constructing turns into an immersive showcase of crafted design items for ‘The Objects We Reside By’ (13–21 September 2025).

‘The Objects We Reside By’: design and on a regular basis life

Bringing collectively the work of 9 makers, the curated group exhibition locations one object in every room of the home, inviting the customer to discover design in a pure home setting.

‘Each room is activated – from the basement studio as much as the attic,’ says Payne. Named Seventy-Six, the five-storey home in Paddington is ‘a spot designed to accommodate each work and household,’ she provides. ‘The truth that it’s a home setting, in addition to a business house, provides to the theatre of this exhibition and helps show how design is part of our on a regular basis lives. The entire level is to see how design items sit inside an actual, lived-in surroundings, with all of the quirks and compromises of a household house.’

Work on present features a vibrant hand-tufted rug with placing geometrical design by Granite + Smoke in collaboration with rug maker Roger Oates Design, a wood stool with hand-painted aluminium inlays by London-based Studio B.C. Joshua, and molten glass desk lamps by glassware studio Collect.

The Tides assortment by artist Nat Maks and designer Brogan Cox – sycamore tables dipped in vibrant marbled ink – are additionally featured, after a profitable debut at London Craft Week earlier this yr.

Different makers featured embody Los Angeles-based designer and artist Daniel Mullin, industrial design studio Atelier Thirty 4, Newcastle-based designer David Irwin and Payne herself – showcasing every thing from sculptural vases and lighting to candlesticks and tableware.

‘I invited buddies and collaborators with distinct practices, from furnishings to textiles to hybrid artwork and design,’ says Payne. ‘There’s a mixture of artisans I’ve labored with earlier than, after which others who I’ve lengthy admired and now relish the chance to collaborate with. Every designer gives one thing distinctive and has been chosen for a particular room, so their work feels at house within the house.’

Specializing in design in a home setting, reasonably than a white-cube gallery house, permits the customer to grasp how objects tackle lives after they’re made, and play a job in ours.