The long, narrow table is set for dinner, its crowded white surface a visual feast Conversations about fashionable things – design, aesthetic, function – abound. Strangely absent, however, is chatter about culinary delights. As the centre-piece for the UK Design Council’s international touring exhibition, Great Expectations, the dinner table is laden only with food for thought. In this case, a mix of innovative products from Britain’s most progressive and experimental designers.
Great Expectations, as its names suggests, is a celebration of all (design) things British. However, rather than an exploration into England’s Dickensian past, the aim of this exhibition is to provide an insight into current trends in British innovation and to set an expectation of what is yet to come. Certainly, the fact that the exhibition is the winner of the Design Week ‘best of show 2002’ award and the FX International Design award, suggests that the world is definitely listening.
