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There are more chairs in the world than people, and still designers want to design more and newer chairs. For designers chairs can be the ultimate challenge; a chair has to be desirable. It has to loo...

Senior Curator, Alex Newson and Phaidon Publisher, Emilia Terragni, will be in-conversation about influential chairs from the Design Museum’s collection to coincide with Phaidon’s forthcoming publicat...

In the early 1970s, Frank Gehry was a young architect with an adventurous approach to design. As an architect, Gehry has created innovative architecture including Museums and buildings for Disney but ...

In this hands-on workshop led by RubinoWilson, learn how to make a wooden chair inspired by Enzo Mari's iconic 'Sedia P', following a visit to the exhibition Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist wi...

Award-winning architects spoke about their practice and approach to designing buildings in cities.

Women Fashion Power offers an unprecedented look at how princesses, models, CEOs, Dames and designers have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world.

In a time before mass manufacturing people would go to expert craftspeople to have things made for them; cobblers would make shoes, joiners would make furniture and seamstresses would make clothes. Ea...

Join a symposium exploring new approaches for a more cooperative society, based on the thinking of the late philosopher Ivan Illich.

How are Snapchat, Instagram and emoji affecting the way we communicate? This talk explored the rise in pictorial forms of communication in social media.

Join Dutch designer Jeroen van Erp on the October late opening of the museum, as he presents his new book, Think Like A Designer, Don’t Act Like One. Including a spectacular Design Bingo!

Delve into the dreamlike relationship between Surrealism and design in this century spanning celebration of Surrealist objects of desire.

A Vitra Design Museum Exhibition.

Join British writer and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling for this keynote lecture on Ken Adam's set designs for Stanley Kubrick’s films.

Join the Design Museum for an evening talk on luxury, sustainability and design.

Create your own folded garments and textiles in this unique workshop by textile designer Jule Waibel.

Explore how smart technology is changing our relationship to our bodies through talks, debate and films. In partnership with Imperial College London

Join a British Sign Language Tour of the exhibition 'Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today' for D/deaf visitors.

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Grant Douglas was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum when the phone rang. His mum answered the phone and as her conversation went on and on Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier ...

Join artist-researcher Susan Schuppli in conversation with Freya Spencer-Wood, Design Researcher in Residence.

To mark the launch of his new book Spectrum and to celebrate the Design Museum’s first anniversary at its new home in Kensington, the award-winning designer John Pawson will be discussing his archite...

Join Carole Kasapi, Pierre Rainero, Deyan Sudjic and Nicholas Foulkes to explore how the watch transformed our relationship to time, craftsmanship and luxury.