062 | LONDON 2021 REVIEW
London 2021: [d]arc room pop-up @ Design London
[d]arc room pop-up, held at the new Magazine exhibition venue as part of Design London, welcomed more than 12,000 visitors to [d]arc media’s first in-person event in two years. Returning to London for its fifth year, from 22-25 September [d]arc room hosted a special pop-up event at London’s new design show, Design London (previously 100% Design). Taking place at Magazine London, a striking new venue situated on the banks of the River Thames, the inaugural Design London boasted a highly curated selection of cutting-edge furniture, contract interiors brands and lighting, as well as emerging talent, high-end collaborations and a diverse talks programme. Over the course of four days, 12,478 visitors attended [d]arc room pop-up, as part of Design London, which welcomed the architecture and design community to London’s new creative hub in North Greenwich. [d]arc room pop-up provided a dedicated area for high-end architectural and decorative lighting brands to show their latest product innovations. Exhibitors included manufacturers: Delta Light; Franklite; Formula Luci Italia; iGuzzini; John Cullen Lighting; Light LAB; Mesh; Nichia; Ray Lighting; Seoul Semiconductor; Thorlux; and Tryka along with associations IALD; ILP; and SLL. Upstairs on the Magazine Mezzanine, the [d]arc thoughts talks
programme saw highly esteemed design professionals take to the stage to discuss the latest topics within lighting and design - the first in-person talks programme from [d]arc media in two years. Over the course of three days, the diverse programme included project focuses from Speirs Major and Kate & Sam Lighting Designers, who discussed the [d]arc award-winning Norwich Cathedral, and Mayfair Townhouse Hotel respectively. The programme also featured in depth panel discussions surrounding exterior lighting with Gary Thornton (The Lighting Police, Nulty), Alison Gallagher (Arup), Aiman Shah (Isometrix Lighting Design) and Daniel Lemajic (TLS); lighting control with Mark Sutton Vane (Sutton Vane Associates), Nicola Agresta (Inverse Lighting Design), Ellie Cozens (Foundry) and Miguel Aguado (Lutron); and sustainability and the circular economy with Bob Bohannon (The LIA), Sofia Hagen (Hagen Hinderdael) and Arfon Davies (GreenLight Alliance, Arup). Meanwhile, product designer Samuel Wilkinson and Simeon Chilvers of Cameron Design House examined how technology is pushing product design forward within the decorative lighting sector. In another decorative-focused panel, Anna Burles (Run for the Hills), Marvin George (Foundry), Mark Harper (Dernier & Hamlyn) and Scott Richler (Gabriel Scott) broke down the current trends within decorative lighting while looking at the challenges within the sector,
