The Conran Shop is slowly but steadily becoming an international brand with shops going in across the world. They, of course, specialize in interior design objects, but they do much, much more. If you’re in London, then check out one f their beautiful shop locations and prepare to be impressed.

“A quirky mix of objects of desire available to buy online. Quintessentially eclectic, utterly style conscious and a little bit of tongue in cheek, our pieces are sourced from around the globe bringing the best of other cultures into our own.” -Atelier Abigail Ahern

“Designersblock curates and produces international shows alongside major design events and trade shows, achieving significant media profile and industry acclaim.

Shows take place in transitional architectural spaces and, since the company’s launch in 1998, over 380 companies and individuals have chosen Designersblock as a platform to promote themselves to an international audience.

Designersblock provides a high profile and respected platform from which to promote design products and services to an international and UK audience of manufacturers, distributors, retailers, architects, specifiers, opinion formers, journalists, gallery curators, institutions, trade shows, designers, stylists, interior designers, public relations companies, branding and communications agencies, promoters, media and public.

Inclusion in a Designersblock show provides access to industry contacts built up and maintained over 7 years of international design shows and design related events.” -Designersblock

“Scarlet Projects was born on February 14th 2000. We offer a new approach to presenting, mediating and utilising design, architecture and visual culture. We are a creative agency, facilitating and producing new ideas. We work with a network of creative talent (both recognised and uncelebrated). We draw on our years of experience in different but related fields in the cutting-edge of the design arena to offer a unique professional creative service to a variety of different clients. We develop projects with an eye to their impact on and potential for the client’s marketing and communication needs.” -Scarlet Projects

[re]design seeks out and promotes products that are genuinely ‘good’ and gorgeous. We put together pioneering projects that spark and nurture sustainable design ideas, building relationships that help bring concepts to fruition.” -[re]design

“A collaboration between Raw Nerve, Creative Lewisham Agency and the London Design Festival, the Deptford Design Market Challenge is bringing together an eclectic mix of 27 of the world’s top designers for an inventive and provocative project.

The designers, who include Conran and Partners, Stuart Haygarth, Martí Guixé, and Based Upon, have each been asked to pick a second-hand object – a paint box, a guitar, a basket of toy soldiers – bought from Deptford Market. Their task is to challenge preconceptions of usefulness and beauty, using their talents to re-work the item, creating something unique, desirable and functional. To view all the items visit the Gallery.

By re-interpreting the discarded, the aim of the Market Challenge is to inspire and encourage designers to think about re-using what is available before creating an entirely new product from scratch. The possibilities for regeneration are endless: compressing or manipulating the object; reengineering it; using it as an image for a website.

The re-designed items, now transformed from humble bargains to design icons, will be displayed at the newly refurbished Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of the London Design Festival, running from 15th – 25th September 2007.” -Deptford Design Challenge