Design classics

Among the first displays of the newly re-located Design Museum are some that show the evolution of everyday objects such as cameras and TVs. There is also the example shown in the photograph that groups household and other objects, that many would call design classics, from the past fifty or so years. It was interesting hearing visitors looking at the objects and identifying those that they possessed now or had owned in the past. We did the same and came up with a longer list than we had imagined.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10

Design Museum, London

London's Design Museum has transferred from near the river in Southwark to the bottom end of Holland Park in Kensington. This involved moving from one "re-purposed" building to another, the current home having formerly been the Commonwealth Institute. The exterior has been refurbished but remains essentially the same 1962 vintage, glass curtain-walled building with a hyperbolic parabaloid roof. The interior, however is pretty much new with lots of stairs and galleries featuring light coloured wood and glass panels. Children appeared to love it, and I did too. Incidentally only the curves of the roof are real, the rest are due to the fisheye lens that I used for the shot.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10