Home Futures - London Design Museum

In February I took a trip to the London Design Museum to visited the exhibition 'Home Futures' as I felt it could inspire some of my upcoming interiors projects.

https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/home-futures

'...What to expect

The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Immerse yourself in a series of dreamlike passages and rooms designed by New York-based architects SO-IL and explore yesterday’s visions of the future – as avant-garde speculations are displayed alongside contemporary objects and new commissions.

Discover more than 200 objects and experiences to trace the key social and technological aspirations that have driven change in the home. Historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy...'

There were some really cool interactive pieces such as the lips sofa and swinging chairs. I always think it’s so much better for people to experience an exhibition through physical touch as you gain so much more from it rather than just looking from afar.

There were some really beautiful interior products such as lighting and seating. A lot of the exhibition was made up of designs from the past that were extremely quirky but really interesting to learn about and consider why they came about.

The exhibition really opened my eyes to the evolution of interior products throughout the 20th Century showing how designers, architectures and manufactures imagined new ways of living that now anticipate how we live today. The advances in technology and what in the 1950s was dreamed as the ‘automated home’ is now fully among us with the ever-rising ‘smart’ technology. The exhibition also really questions the traditional notion of ‘home’ and the increase in nomadic living styles - what does this mean for us as interior designers?

Overall, I felt really inspired by this exhibition. I’m so glad my friend recommended it as it really spoke to me as a designer within interiors.