The twenty-five artists in Overthrown: Clay Without Limits took on adventurous challenges to make the works in this exhibition. Most were made especially for Overthrown and many are in direct dialogue with our dynamic Daniel Libeskind-designed architecture; they move beyond the pedestal to the wall, the floor, and even the ceiling. A few extend beyond the Anschutz Gallery, across the entire museum complex. They break boundaries that are physical, technological, conceptual, and spatial.

Since the late 19th century and throughout much of the 20th, designers have celebrated the socially uplifting promise of industrial production, believing the true path to modernity lay in standardization. A designer’s job was to conceive a model that could be converted into a working prototype—a blueprint for a series of objects, each identical and manufactured according to exacting rules.

First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world's most important annual design events. The nine-day Festival programme is made up of over 200 events and exhibitions staged by around 160 partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world.

100% Design hits the ground running in September with The Director's Cut, a select group of British based designers and manufacturers showing a chosen product for the first time at 100% Design. You will see how designers are forging the way with precision technology and manufacturing as so skillfully presented by BarberOsgerby with their Tip Ton chair for Vitra, a rare example of how to design a stacking rocker.

The first exhibition in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is dedicated to the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Under the title "Ettore Sottsass - Enamels 1958", curated by Fulvio and Napoleone Ferrari, the show presents an aspect of his work that is still largely unknown: works in enamel created primarily in the 1950s, along with related drawings. This exhibition is also an attractive complement to the major exhibition that is currently on display in the Museum: "Zoom. Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo", in which Sottsass is represented with numerous furnishings and other objects.

Following its successful debut appearance at this year’s Salone del Mobile, Milan, designjunction london, will showcase the very best in global design during the London Design Festival. Under the creative direction of celebrated British designer Michael Sodeau, designjunction london, will take over the impressive surrounds of Victoria House (Holborn, central London) with over 2,000 sqm of exhibition space.

Entitled Petite Friture, Moustache, Superette, Specimen and Goodbye Edison. Punchy and easy to remember names chosen to stand out by the plethora of new French furniture and objects editors. Difficult to believe in such a sluggish, but this is reality: France has never known such an entrepreneurial frenzy in the design world. In barely 3 years, the French design market has seen more editors emerge, but also design galleries (Ymer & Malta, Next Level Galerie, Fat Galerie, Galerie BSL, Galerie Gosserez, etc...) than over the last ten years.

Since 2009, the Domaine de Boisbuchet has opened its doors each summer to visitors from the region and all over the world, providing access to the park-like grounds with buildings by international architects along with special exhibitions in the chateau. Having organized countless exhibitions as the founding director of Vitra Design Museum, Alexander von Vegesack now concentrates his energies as head of the Domaine de Boisbuchet on staging exceptional presentations on themes from outside the classical museum canon – exhibitions that reflect Boisbuchet’s identity as an experimental centre for interdisciplinary creativity. This year, the exhibition Naked Shapes underscores Boisbuchet’s close ties with Japan and its exemplary culture of design and architecture.

What Design Can Do! celebrates the power of design and its problem-solving abilities. This two-day conference presents design as a catalyst of change and renewal and as a means of addressing the societal questions of our time. The aim of the conference is to demonstrate the value of a design mentality as a response to the challenges of today’s world. With a line-up of international speakers from all design disciplines, it will be the platform for designers to manifest the social potential of their profession.

I Saloni are laying claim to their age with a touch of irony, a play on words that echoes their nature and their spirit, youthful and lively.