Introduction
Inspiration or perspiration? Design Icons pays homage to the unique connection between designers and the products they create - by uncovering the designer or creative mind behind each product. Discover the source of the ideas that create the world around us as we welcome a handful of designers from different fields to deliver a unique lecture series.
Designers and Products
Visit Harrods from 15th April to 24th May and discover your favourite products from a fresh new perspective with displays across the store. You'll also find exciting limited-edition pieces created exclusively for Design Icons.
Lecture series
The series of six lectures, hosted jointly with London 's Design Museum , brings together the most revered international designers – from Vivienne Westwood to Ross Lovegrove – to explore what makes certain products and designers the leaders in their fields.
Tickets are available through London 's Design Museum website.
Full videos of each lecture will be available from the Harrods Design Icons site 24 hours after each event, apart from the Vivienne Westwood lecture, which will be streamed live.
Questions for the lecturers can be submitted through designicons.harrods.com.
What Makes a Design Iconic?
Tuesday 15th April 2008
Speakers: Matteo Alessi, Roland Mouret, former Editorial Director of icon magazine Aidan Walker, and Deyan Sudji, Director of the Design Museum in London
Building an Icon
Friday 25th April 2008
Speaker: Alastair Lansley, Chief Architect of St Pancras International
Active Resistance to Propoganda: A new approach to the world
Friday 2nd May, 7.15pm
Speaker: Vivienne Westwood
Ross Lovegrove
Friday 9th May 2008
Speaker: Ross Lovegrove, designer of the Sony Walkman
Richard Sapper
Friday 16th May 2008
Speaker: Richard Sapper,
designer of the Tizio lamp for Artemide
Supersonic Design: The Concorde
Friday 23rd May 2008
Speaker: Christopher Orlebar
Events
From the awe-inspiring to the eccentric, Harrods in-store events will tease your perceptions by showcasing designs from the leading edge of innovation.
Visit Harrods during Design Icons to view limited-edition and exclusively designed products across seven floors - including Lacroix-designed Evian and Jade Jagger's diamond-encrusted ice-pick.
Milan Furniture Fair
From 16th to 21st April, leading interior designers commune in Milan for the world's most exciting design event – the Milan Furniture Fair.
Showcasing spectacular products from renowned brands such as Flexform, Ligne Roset and Fendi, the 47th annual Fair offers a tantalising insight into the interiors of the future.
Luckily Harrods customers needn't wait. With an exclusive insider's look at the Fair, Harrods will be showing footage of the international exhibitors, that only trade insiders have seen, online and on our Furniture floor from Saturday 26th April.
Competition
Enter into our Design Icons prize draw for your chance to win one of six fabulous prizes.
First prize is one of our 100 exclusive, special-edition Posh Noodles, plus a pair of annual memberships to the prestigious Design Museum , where benefits include invitations to private views and priority booking with discounted tickets for Design Museum Talks.
Four runners-up will receive a pair of annual memberships to the Design Museum .
For your chance to win, simply register with Designicons.harrods.com to be entered into the prize draw.