Highlights from the London design week

Rose Martin reports on some of the highlights of London Design Week

AND so to London on a Ryanair flight that left when it said it would, and returned when it said it would, for Design Festival Week. Choosing from a sprawl of venues is difficult as everyone is now getting in on the act all over the capital, including the V&A museum.

This time round, the glories of 100% Design at the Olympia, which is a bewildering array of furniture, fixtures and fittings for the design trade, was eschewed in favour of the lesser known and more punter-friendly, Focus 17 at the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour.