Take a look at what’s new in the interior design world at the London’s Festival of Design

Well shod in a sturdy pair of flatties and fortified by strong coffee I traipsed around the London Design Festival recently to see what’s new in the interiors and design world.

If there was an obvious theme throughout the exhibitions it was the emphasis on natural materials and, in some cases, new applications, with wood and textures very obviously the leit motif from Argentina to Norway.

The Argentinian pavilion at 100% Design in west London’s Olympia, showed traditional knits wrapped around lighting cables that shaded bare industrial-style light-bulbs like socks.