Reviews of Irish craft at the London Design Festival

September is time for design lovers to make the annual pilgrimage to the London Design Festival to absorb the latest from creative talent worldwide.

This year’s event took place last week with a not insignificant number of Irish shrines at which to worship, and providing a welcome cleanser for the jaded palates of home interior enthusiasts.

My favourite venues year-on-year are 100% Design at Earls Court and Tent London. Just a few year’s ago, the latter was the upstart of the design exhibition world, but thanks to the guts of its founder, Jimmy McDonald, who wanted to offer something off the mainstream, it has grown into one of the must-see venues, showing a number of country pavilions, including one from Ireland this year.