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100% Design

100% Design
Yes, it costs £20 (though Time Out readers who book online quoting ref TIM1 get in for £15), but for anyone interested in interiors, it’s a great way to catch up with the latest designs from the UK and overseas, and to spot new trends and talent. As well as the main event and sister shows on lighting and building products, there are special mini-exhibitions and features, plus seminars, a bar, café and the chance to screech in a Lucky Voice karaoke pod.
100% Design, Earls Court 2, Warwick Rd, SW5 (020 7385 1200/www.100percentdesign.co.uk). Earls Court tube. Open to the public Sept 23, 11pm-6pm.
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Ceramics in the City 07

Ceramics in the City 07
This free three-day selling fair at the Geffrye Museum is one of the best events of the week for ceramics fans. Specialising in interiors, the museum sniffs out the UK’s best designers and exhibits a range of styles and techniques by 45 top ceramicists. Snap up practical objects for the home from just £10 or pay a little more for unusual decorative pieces. Over the weekend, children can get active with badge-making activities in the morning and afternoon on Saturday, and Sunday provides plate-painting from 12.30pm.
Ceramics in the City, Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Rd, E2 (020 7739 9893/www.geffrye-museum.org.uk) Liverpool St tube/rail. Fair on Fri 12noon-8pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12noon-5pm.

Craft Central

Craft Central One Day Designers
Enjoy bargain prices and meet the makers at this one-off sale of work by ten cutting-edge designers. Discounts of between ten and 50 per cent are available on home accessories, textiles, ceramics and glassware including Tracey Bush’s cute butterfly boxes and Selina Rose’s laser-cut interiors products.
Craft Central One Day Designers, 33-35 St John’s Square, EC1(020 7251 0276/www.craftcentral.org.uk) Farringdon tube/rail. Open Tuesday Sept 25, 12noon-7pm.

Designers Block
Designers Block, now in its tenth year, offers an eclectic mixture of weird and wonderful new design. Based in Shoreditch, the show includes jewel-encrusted lingerie, adventurous contemporary ceramics, furniture and a glass-blowing workshop which will create new work out of the empties consumed during the show. There’s even a soundtrack of music from sampled glass noises. New sister show, Designersblock: Illustrate, features 80 graphic contributors. Admission is £5 or £3 for concessions.
Designersblock, The Nicholls & Clarke Buildings. 3-10 Shoreditch High StE1 (020 7613 0134 /www.designersblock.org.uk) Liverpool St tube/rail. Open 10am-7pm, Sept 20-23.
Designersblock: Illustrate, Highbury Studios, Hornsey St, N7 (020 7613 0134 /www.designersblock.org.uk) Holloway Rd tube. Open 10am- 7pm until Sept 23.

Ella Doran @ Selfridges
Fancy yourself as a bit of a designer? Find out if you’ve got what it takes at Selfridges, which, with designer Ella Doran, is challenging shoppers to design their own tray. Submit your entry in the cookshop on the lower ground floor and your design could end up being manufactured. Entrants also have a shot at winning a £699 Siemens coffee machine.
Ella Doran @ Selfridges, Duke St, W1 (0800 123 400/www.selfridges.co.uk) Bond St tube. Open Mon-Sat 9.30am-9pm, Sun 11.30am-6pm, Sept 21-23.

Glass Sellers’ Prize 2007 Exhibition
This exhibition, which follows posh glass competition the Glass Sellers’ Prize, is another excellent event. At Peter Leyton’s gallery you will be able to see the work of the winners and the 20 shortlisted finalists for the competition. Look out for Katharine Coleman’s cold portrait of urban living ‘Cityblock’, Gayle Matthias’ sumptuous, engraved fruit in near-edible textures and Ruby Woo’s giant-sized coloured ice-lollies with images embedded inside the glass. Most of the pieces will also be on sale if you want to splash the cash on a rare piece of art for about £200 to £3400. You can also snag bargains from £15 and Peter Leyton’s sculptural pieces are not to be missed. The space even includes a workshop, with classes on weekends, and during the exhibition there will be glass-blowing demonstrations all day.
London Glassblowing Workshop, 7 The Leathermarket, Weston St, SE1 (020 7403 2800/www.londonglassblowing.co.uk) Borough tube.
Open Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, until Oct 19.

Iconic Moments in British Rock
Combine a snoop round furniture designs with a glimpse into the rock archive of photographer Jill Furmanovsky. Boss Design is using
its London premises to showcase a small selection of rare prints of rock stars including Johnny Rotten and The Stone Roses.
Iconic Moments in British Rock, Boss Design Showroom, 319-325 Euston Rd, NW1 (www.boss-design.co.uk/www.rockarchive.com). Warren St tube. Open Mon-Fri 9am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm until Sept 30.

Market Challenge
What on earth could you make out of a sack of shuttlecocks or a heap of old 78s? See what some top designers came up with when challenged to create a new design from a random set of objects from Deptford Market. The results are often unrecognisable – knitted toys end up as an oddly lumpy jumper and the shuttlecocks have become a delicate chandelier.
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 (0871 663 2501/www.deptforddesignchallenge.com) Waterloo tube/rail. Open 10am-11pm until Sept 25.

The Goldfinger Project
Love it or loathe it, you can’t miss Ladbroke Grove’s iconic Trellick Tower. Find out more about Erno Goldfinger, the architect behind the brutalist masterpiece, in the exhibition The Goldfinger Project. The multimedia show explores the life and work of the man whose name was even the inspiration for the classic Bond villain.
Space, 129-131 Mare St, E8 (020 8525 4330/www.spacestudios.org.uk) Bethnal Green tube or London Fields rail. Open Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12noon-6pm until Sept 29.

Tom Dixon
Freebie alert! Head down to Trafalgar Square on Wednesday September 19 and you could end up with one of 1,000 lights created by leading designer Tom Dixon. To promote the use of low-energy light bulbs, Dixon is installing a giant chandelier of recycled plastic lights with CFL bulbs. The installation will be lit at sunset on the two previous days before being dismantled and given away on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tom Dixon, Trafalgar Square, London WC2 (www.tomdixon.net) Charing Cross tube/rail. For four hours each evening from Sept 17-19. Free lights from 5-7pm on Sept 19.

Grand designs from Trash Luxe

Trash Luxe
Luxury with humble origins is the theme of Trash Luxe, Liberty’s exhibition of beautiful furniture created from mundane and unwanted goods that proves that make-do-and-mend can be stylish too. Pieces include lighting made from polystyrene cups from rising British designer Paul Cocksedge.
Liberty, Great Malborough St, London W1 (www.trashluxe.com) Oxford Circus tube. Open Mon-Wed 10am-8pm, Thur 10am-9pm, Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 12noon-6pm, Sept 20-30.