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100% Futures has gained a reputation as an effective platform for talented young designers to
step up to the next career level. Barbara Chandler takes a look at some of this year’s exhibitors
A gALAxy
of rising Futures is the brainchild of 100% countrywide in a competition sponsored by Above:
international Design show director Peter Massey. “We are developers LondonNewcastle.
Linda Boronkay’s
bachelor pad design
design stars will hang out hopefully in their definitely providing a launchpad for the next Now you can see for real Linda’s cool,
combines dark and
own show space at 100% Design this month, generation,” he enthused, “and exhibitors geometric winning scheme to remodel a moody with bright
waiting for commercial telescopes to spy – from home and abroad – have been bachelor pad, as she will be building her
and lively
their unquestionably innovative ideas. This is rigorously selected by industry experts and whole design (including furniture, sliding Right:
100% Futures, a dedicated section for fresh design cognoscenti. Designers from last year glass partitions, flooring and so on), assisted
Christopher Patton’s
Easy08 armchair and
shining talent, now in its second year. have already got their ideas onto the market.” by interior architecture firm Johnson Naylor.
Philip Luscombe’s
There will be just under 50 stands, but This year, unusually, interior design gets Dark moody colours contrast with a vivid futuristic and satirical
several are joint efforts by, for example, the its own showcase, thanks to prizes of stand band of lime green at floor level running in
take on what might
be in a Museum of
British European Design group, Danish Crafts space won by talented youngsters. Indeed a diagonal stripe though into the living area.
Modern Britain
and the Hong Kong School of Design. So 25-year-old Linda Boronkay (from Hungary) This is painted in a tough lime green paint in 2050
the total of designers on view will be well still has a year to go at London Metropolitan on to a chocolate-coloured wood flooring.
over 100. Amidst such a diverse display of University. Using sophisticated computer “My imagined client is young, ambitious
new, raw – but well-trained – talent, you just visuals, she scooped the title ‘Best Emerging and successful,” says Boronkay. “He’s image-
can’t predict who you will discover. Interior Designer 2008’ above 200 entrants conscious, and a fan of modern art, with a
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