The London Design Festival is once again unfolding across the capital. With exhibitions featuring creations from some of the world’s greatest designers plus emerging new talents, there’s something to satisfy every visual taste.

This year, The Practice team are most looking forward to viewing the festival’s Landmark Project, the “Endless Stair”- an installation of magnificent proportions occupying a site in front of the Tate Modern. As the title suggests, ‘Endless Stair” is comprised of a wooden staircase structure that filters out in different directions, culminating in its highest point appearing as if freely suspended. The architectural team behind this stunning project, dRMM Architects, were asked to create something using American Hardwood in association with the American Hardwood Export Council.  They were inspired by the concept of a non-linear structure and the notion of complexity, working to create a finished piece that is “interlocking” and “spatially impossible”, as described by Alex de Rijke, who headed up the team.

We’re also particularly intrigued to check out interactive event, “The Dinner Party”, held in the British Galleries at the V&A. The installation, created by Scholten & Baijing, invites visitors to interrupt a staged dinner party in session, with the idea that viewers will be able to see pieces of design such as cutlery and crockery in use. The premise behind this is a subversion of how a museum visitor would ordinarily view the displays- on pedestals or surrounded by roped barriers. Stefan Scholten of the design duo behind the project imagines that the scene is set when the visitor “enters just seconds after the guests have left to smoke a cigarette in the garden.” He adds: “One can use this unguarded moment to look at the luxurious dinner table undisturbed.”

Another exhibit we look forward to seeing is the Moleskine Sketch Relay centred around their campaign, “Design is Here, There and Everywhere.” The company and the festival have invited 70 London-based designers to participate by creating illustrations of the objects in their lives that they couldn’t live without. Secondly, they were also asked to examine what they wished to improve upon in their personal or professional lives, immortalised in drawing. And finally, the designers were asked to produce something that they had always wanted to design but hadn’t had the opportunity to before. With contributions from an array of artists, we’re certainly excited to see the results!

Have you had a chance to check out any of the events at the London Design Festival, and are you planning to visit? We’d love to hear your thoughts and see your photos on any of the pieces exhibited, talks or show spaces, so please tweet them to us @PracticeDigital and share them on our Facebook page.