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Enjoy life in and around the place you live Summer/Autumn 2013 The future issue Made for me Product design gets personal Watch this space Space tourism blasts off sMARTLY DRESSED Fashion meets function
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The future issue
Editors
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Design director
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Josh Sims
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Contents
Contents
Summer 2013
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04 Seed capital 52 Fast forward The St James collection
Through research, global networks, number- Meet the experts whose job it is to predict
76 Places to live with St James
crunching data, and high and low-tech what we might want, need or desire, long
processing, the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens' before the idea even enters our head. From 78 Merano Residences
Millenium Seed Bank Partnership is saving fashion to food, technology to travel, come
82 Kew Bridge West
the world, one seed at a time. and gaze into the crystal ball.
86 Riverlight
12 Watch this space 59 A more social life
Today, anyone who can afford the price tag St James is a company at the cutting 90 Queen Mary's Place
can buy a ticket for a real-life space adventure. edge of lifestyle design – creating a host 92 Roehampton House
We explore what it’s taken to make that dream of experiences to enjoy within world-class
p43 a reality. places to live. We explore the rise of these 93 Langham Square
so-called ‘third spaces’ and discover what 94 Wye Dene
19 Smartly dressed
it takes to create the very best.
The things we wear are becoming intelligent. 95 Kennet Island
“Travelling into space is to enter From internet-enabled glasses that sense 62 Smart solutions
96 Hurlingham Gate
what interests us, to workout clothes designed Welcome to our selection of the latest gadgets and
the greatest unknown.” to improve posture. We discover how style gizmos designed to improve your everyday life. 100 Emerald Square
Eugene Cernan is getting smarter.
65 Sensory sensations Coming soon
23 Movers + shakers London is being revived by a new wave
101 Brewery Wharf
London has always been a magnet for creators of restaurants, cinemas and olfactory events
and entrepreneurs. We meet five of todays that tantalise the senses. Homes & London 102 The Corniche
brightest and best. uncovers the capital’s most unusual experiences.
p43 104 Butlers Court
30 The diary 69 Made for me
Plan your future with our pick of the most In a world driven by mass production
interesting events taking place across the we explore the rise of the one-off, and how
capital this Summer. we as individuals are becoming the new
designers and manufacturers of tomorrow.
39 Bank of tomorrow
Born out of London's defunct industrial 73 All hail!
framework, springs a brand new quarter Few British tech companies have gathered
on the river and right in the heart of the city, such a devoted following as Hailo, the mobile
home to some of the most cutting edge phone app that lets users virtually hail a taxi.
architecture in the world. A quarter of a million passengers worldwide
use the on-demand taxi service, an idea which
43 Space age style
p52 Visions of science and tomorrow have long
emerged over tea and toast in a small café.
“It’s an unbelievable story,” co-founder Russell
inspired the way in which we style the places
Hall tells Homes & London.
we live. From soft flowing sci-fi curves to the
precision of molecular geometry, our home
styling choices will transport your home back
to the future.
47 City of culture
London is a grand canvas for public art.
The wealth of work on show today ranges p62
from sculpture sited on historic plinths,
to unique contemporary pieces commissioned
p59 p23 by St James. This is our guide to what to see
now and what to look out for in the future.
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Spiritcapital
Seed of London
seed
ca p i ta l
Protecting the world’s diverse and
threatened wild plant species is the mission
pledge of Kew Royal Botanic Gardens'
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
(MSBP). Through research, global
networks, number-crunching data, and
high and low-tech processing, the MSBP
is saving the world, one seed at a time.
Writer Claire Walsh – Photography Jon Stevens
Illustration David Young
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Seed capital MSB’s expanding work and collection. Designed
by architects Stanton Williams, the low-level
I
construction features barrel-vaulted roofing
t was British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s
and acres of glazing inside and out, to both echo
Seed Cathedral – the startling UK Pavilion
and enable the visibility that the MSB promotes
created for the 2010 Shanghai Expo – that, for
in its operations.
me, spotlighted the important work being done
It’s a ‘belt and braces’ approach below
by the MSBP. The Cathedral featured 250,000
ground, with the two main cold stores –
seeds sourced from the Kunming Institute of
the actual seed bank – being located in an
Botany, in China (a member of the MSBP).
underground vault, behind a heavy reinforced-
The seeds were cast in 60,000, seven and half
steel door. Although the door is a little dramatic,
metre long acrylic rods, which protruded out
and more appropriate for protecting bullion,
of a small box-like building. It resembled a
it is a reminder of the serious work the MSBP
giant seed head, shimmering in the daylight,
undertakes, safeguarding essential wild-plants
and illuminated at night. The pavilion was
for all our futures.
visited by 7 million people, and won the expo’s
On the ground floor, laboratories line
gold medal. It made Heatherwick a global
a public central space. Probert tells me he
star and catapulted the work of the MSBP into
advocates the upper level of the building
public conscience.
being so accessible; “the general public can
I’m in Wakehurst, the National Trust estate
walk straight in and see into the labs and see
in West Sussex, where Kew’s Millennium Seed Exhibition hall at the MSB visitor centre
scientists going about their day-to-day work”.
Bank (MSB) is located, and I am expecting
There are around 70 technicians, graduate
boiler suits, hydrochloric arms and iris
scientists, and post-doctorial researchers
screening. I sign in, with a regular paper and
working here. Many are linguists, so as to
pen, and am met by my guide Robin Probert
Seed Cathedral, UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo aid communication with the 120 partner
– the knowledgeable and affable head of
organisations, located in 50 countries.
conservation and technology at the bank. As we
Gone is the Empire attitude of exploitation,
make our way through the building, he explains
global partners now identify the seeds they
the scene here is an “active operation”. The
wish to collect, be it because they are rare
MSBP’s humane pledge of conservation is
underpinned by human involvement at every The MSB is referred to as the and endangered, or incredibly useful. Seed
collections are focused on alpine, dry lands,
'mothership' by partner organisations.
stage of their operations.
Robin Probert coastal and island ecosystems, as these are most
Kew had always collected and stored seeds,
Head of Conservation vulnerable to climate change.
but after National Lottery investment in 1996 & Technology MSB
it was able to establish the MSBP and expand MSB visitor centre seed sculpture Seeds on exhibit Seeds on exhibit
their horizon. The biggest environmental
problem facing us today is land conversion for
agriculture or development, and it is intensified
by climate change. Due to this, Probert believes,
“a significant proportion of the world’s plant
species will go extinct this century”. It is a scary
prospect, but he says there is no real reason why
they should. “We have the tools to save most
species. It is very simple technology: dry it; seal
it; freeze it, and most seeds will stay alive for
many, many years.”
The 250,000 seeds used by Heatherwick
in the UK pavilion seem like relative small fry
in comparison to the precise 19,429,446,500
banked in Wakehurst (as of 26 June 2013).
There are 33,176 species here; that’s over
10% of the world’s wild flora and fauna,
and the aim to conserve 25% by 2020. The
MSBP, Probert explains, concentrates on
wild plants: “they are incredibly important
for nutrition, medicine and habitat”. The
famous Svalbard Vault, cut into the permafrost
in Northern Norway, stores samples of the
world’s cultivated crops. These total just 300
species; “we are preserving the other 99.9%,”
he counters.
The MSB is referred to as the ‘mother ship’
by partner organisations. Thanks to an injection
of funding a specifically designed building was
Canisters for storing the billions of seeds
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The -196°C storage facility
Probert is confident
seeds should live
for hundreds if not
thousands of years
Inspecting seeds at The Great Seed Swap Storing seeds in -10°C
Seeds are cleaned by hand; high-tech
equipment eases the work, but technicians rely on
lo-fi sieves and rubber-bungs; chain-mail gloves
Packing away specimens in Tasmania, Australia Collecting seeds in Mali
and secateurs are used for particularly tough
customers. Once clean, batches are x-rayed, to check
When needed, MSB staff will join precisely for damage, or larvae infection. They vary massively
planned collecting expeditions overseas; “we in size and temperament. Orchid seeds are
don’t just randomly drive around a country!”
“Some of the notoriously short lived, and are so small they appear
says Probert. Trip essentials include a pick- grizzlier seeds are like dust. In contrast a palm seed can be as big
up truck, GPS, satellite telephones and all the
collecting paraphernalia. To collect seeds you
hard to get to and as a fist.
Once passed as healthy, seeds are counted,
shake plants, pick pods and ripened fruits. With we often employ moved to another drying room and packed into
ideal collections numbering 10,000-20,000
seeds of a single species, sending tons of bigger
local climbers to airtight containers. Le Parfait, the ubiquitous
French glass storage jar, is preferred (the
fleshier fruits back to the UK is not an option, get to the tops scientists here have done their research, and
so these are cleaned in the field. of trees.” know what is really airtight). Labelled with
“Sometimes it can be hazardous” Probert barcodes and serial numbers – embedded with
tells me. “Some of the grizzlier seeds are hard to Robin Probert – MSB critical data – the seeds are filed away into
get to and we often employ local climbers to get The drying process one of two shelf-clad cold stores, for a freezing
to the tops of trees.” Expeditions occasionally -20˚C deep sleep. For some species, this is not
camp out in the bush, but more often than not cold enough, these are instead kept in liquid
MSB scientist at work
scientists forego a night under canvas, for an nitrogen, cryogenically frozen at -196˚C
air-conditioned hotel room – spreading out The only time these now dormant seeds
their seed bounty, to start the drying process. are woken is if a sample is requested, or for
Batches collected in the field are sent to routine germination (every 5-10 years). To
the bank by regular couriers. Probert says that germinate, seeds are taken to labs lined with
only occasionally they have had exotic bugs scores of incubators, set anywhere between
fly out, assuring me, they are swiftly dealt 0-40˚C. Planted in agar (a sticky gel derived
with, i.e. ‘destroyed’. Wrapped in cloth and from seaweed), they are monitored and scored.
paper bags, seeds begin their drying process, When necessary germinated seeds make it out
in an initial room set to 15% relative humidity of the Petri dish and into a planter, fulfilling
and 15˚C, roughly the same atmosphere as their potential in the MSB’s greenhouse.
an aeroplane cabin during landing. Although Just how long can seeds live for? If kept in a
most can, Probert tells me not all seeds can be cold store, Probert is confident seeds should live
dried. Usually it’s the big fleshy seeds from the for hundreds if not thousands of years. Some of
tropics that don’t respond. But nor do seeds the oldest seeds in the bank’s possession can be
of UK natives like oak, chestnut or sycamore. dated to 1802-03. They were found at London’s
This is the law of the wild; there are no hard National Archive, in the wallet of a Dutch
or fast rules. merchant from the period.
Counting seeds for the stores Seed canisters The germination process
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Seed capital
01
Bank your own Seeds
My own knowledge of botany is restricted
to the boarders of the small patch of land
that I work, with varying success, during the
warmer months each year. Yes I grow from
seed but these seeds are bought online, or from
supermarkets. I have no idea how to gather,
clean and store my own seeds.
I am assured it is fairly straightforward.
Although there are kits available to aid the
The Proteaceae grown from a 200+ year old seed harvesting and drying process – the Millennium
Seed Bank of course sells it’s own – anyone can
use these lo-fi methods to get started. 02
01
Collect at the right time. Leave plants to go to
seed. Collect when pods are dry and fruits are
fully ripe. Stick to non-hybrid and wild species,
and collect from the healthiest looking plants.
C
02
M
Collect different species in their own paper
or cloth bag, labelling as you go. Keep species Y
The merchant – Jan Teerlink – was aboard separate at all times. CM
a ship, captured by the British, off the coast of 03
South Africa, and thrown into jail. It is thought 03
MY
he had collected seeds on the mainland, and Scoop the seeds out of fleshy fruits and separate CY
put them with his papers for safekeeping. the pulp. Spread them out to dry somewhere CMY
Teerlink’s wallet contained 33 species, and well ventilated. Likewise leave your other
of them the MSB managed to germinate just collections in breathable packets somewhere K
three. A beautiful tall and exotic Proteaceae cool and dry.
(Leucospermum) grown from 200+ year old
seed is now maturing in the bank’s greenhouse. 04
A seed signifies the beginning of life, but in the Remove outer pods and clean seeds of debris
case of the MSB’s collection, it is not the start using a sieve. Dry again. Desiccant aids can be
of their story. used to aid this process. Consider placing seeds 04
in a porous bag above rice or charcoal – use
three parts desiccant to one part seed.
05
Once dry put each species in a sealable jar, label
with name, month and year of harvest. Add a
self-indicating silica gel packet; they contain
a methyl violet indicator which changes from
green to orange when relative humidity is below 05
20-25%. If orange you are good to go.
06
Keep seeds in a cool, dry environment.
Collecting and storing is worth it, as these
seeds will be better quality than those bought
in humid garden centres; they promise more
shoots, leaves, fruits and blooms.
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Today, anyone who can afford the price tag can buy
a ticket for a real-life space adventure. We explore
what it’s taken to make that dream a reality.
Writer Josh Sims
A conceptual illustration of Virgin Galactic astronauts
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“ Look at the airline industry now:
originally it was an expensive
government programme that
certainly didn’t haul people in the
affordable way it does today, and
the same change will take place
with space travel,” argues Eugene
Cernan. “The fact is that it’s
an imminent natural evolution
for us to realise we can’t ignore
space any more.”
Cernan might well have more appreciation than
many as to how the idea of everyday spaceflight
is now taking, if not giant leaps, then clearly
more than small steps. He was, after all, the last
man to walk on the moon. The sci-fi notion of
holidays in space – a trip to the Costa del Solar,
if you will – may be some generations away,
despite demand: when, 16 years ago, Thomas
Cook started taking names for prospective space
tours, ostensibly as a PR stunt, it had to close the
list after 10,000 applications were made. But the
chance to temporarily leave the planet at least
now looks to become a reality. By 2015, Richard
Branson’s Virgin Galactic will, assuming all goes
to plan, have taken paying passengers into low-
orbit, allowed them to experience a zero-gravity
environment, and returned them home. Home, in
this new age, being Earth.
A trip on Galactic will cost around $250,000.
But, importantly, that is a price accessible to
millions of people rather than to just a handful –
the likes of Dennis Tito, the aptly-named Mark
Shuttleworth and other space tourists so far
who have paid tens of millions to go into space
on Soyuz missions. “I’ve grown tired of people
regarding [mass] space tourism as unachievable,”
says Peter Diamandis – the man who lit the fuse
with his X-Prize, an American national contest
begun in 1996 and offering a $10m award to the
first private company to develop an RLV – re-
useable launch vehicle, an acronym you can
expect to read a lot in years to come – capable
of taking passengers into sub-orbital space.
That prize was won by the US company Scaled
Composites, with which Branson has joined
forces to launch his new service.
“Some people still think of it all as fanciful –
but 100 years ago the idea of hopping on a 747 was
unimaginable,” Diamandis adds. “There’s only
one marketplace to get space travel moving: self-
loading carbon payloads. People, in others words.
SpaceShipTwo Flight Path Tourism will drive space travel.”
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Whether bigger, bolder ideas come to return, as fantastic as possible. “The first reaction entrepreneur Elon Musk, which last year became
pass nobody can yet say: Bigelow Aerospace, one might have to the idea of going into space is the world’s first privately-held company to send
formed by Robert Bigelow, owner of Budget ‘wow!’ – so from the designer’s point of view it’s a cargo payload to the International Space Station.
Suites of America, is working on a research and about recognising how passengers need to feel Then there is XCOR, a US company that has
development programme for a space cruiser. The in this position,” explains Richard Seymour, co- tested the first privately-built rocket-powered
Space Island Group wants to use 12 spent Space founder of London-based Seymourpowell, which airplane, and which is also developing its Lynx
Shuttle fuel tanks to build a space hotel 400 miles worked on the visualisation of the interior design spaceplane. Reaction Engines has brought its
above the Earth. John Spencer, founder of the for Galactic. “It’s really all about the emotional Skylon pilotless craft to the proof-of-concept
LA-based Space Tourism Society, argues among
the growing billionaire class, the search for the
ergonomics of the design. Spaceflight like this is
an incredible experience. Even for me getting this
phase. And Bristol Spaceplanes has published
a design for what it says is a workable re-useable “ There are no words to describe being on the moon,
you have to feel it. If you want to get imaginative
ultimate brand sponsorship opportunity and the close to the Galactic project has been intoxicating. low orbit spaceplane based on affordable
demand for ever more extreme vacationing will I flew on Concorde. That was amazing. And that technology proven since the 1960s.
lead to the likes of orbital super-yachts within 15 was just a plane. Imagine what this will feel like.” Space, it seems, is set to be big business. And
years and the America’s Cup Off-World within
20. “The cycle of response to these ideas is to
While much of the interest in space travel
is fueled by the aim of getting satellite and other
many of its leading players, as David Ashford,
founder of Bristol Spaceplanes and author of
about it, it’s like being on God’s front porch, faced
laugh, then say it can’t be done, and then do it,” he
says. “And the likes of the Galactic is important in
technologies into space more affordably, or by
that of cutting journey times between spots on
the forthcoming ‘Space Exploration: All That
Matters’ (Hodder), notes, embody “the pioneer with the endlessness of time and space.”
making people realise just what might be possible. Earth to a matter of minutes rather than several approach – that’s what is driving the evolution
It will only take the first international celebrity in hours, Virgin is not alone among the private of space travel now. Government agencies have Eugene Cernan
space, then the first honeymoon in space, to keep ventures – and adventurers – seeking to get more the budget streams but are too entrenched in
building desire and interest.” people out of this world. Among those set to prove habits of thinking, notably giving up on the crucial
Certainly Virgin is thinking in ways akin to competitors for the company are the likes of idea of re-useable spacecraft. And, of course,
the five star hospitality industry, bringing in a Boeing’s Orbital Express project, Sierra Nevada’s they’re hampered by anxiety about the total re-
host of big name designers – Richard Rogers, Dream Chaser, Paul Allen’s Stratosphere plane, conception of space and how it is used that will
Philippe Starck, Seymourpowell – to make the and the Falcon vehicles from Space X. This is follow these companies getting more and more
entire trip, from spaceport stay to Galactic’s the space transport company founded by PayPal people up there.”
WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo in the Spaceport in Mojave.
Photo by Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise,
2016
The Dream Chaser, a crewed
Watch this space past, present & future the world’s first commercial suborbital and orbital
manned spaceship launches spaceplane being developed
For the likes of Ashford, Galactic will be but 1996 for the first time – climbing to by Sierra Nevada Corporation
The X Prize space competition an altitude of 45,000ft (13,716m). Space Systems, plans to carry
a “good stepping stone”. The real excitement is announced (later renamed the up to seven people to and from
begins when sub-orbital craft are superseded by ‘Ansari X Prize’). 26 teams from 2011 low Earth orbit.
low-orbital craft – which must achieve the more around the world participate,
The Virgin Galactic Gateway
ranging from volunteer
advanced feat of speeding at 17,500 mph to break to Space is declared open 2018
hobbyists to large corporate-
Earth’s gravity, a feat that requires vastly more at Spaceport America, New Planned launch of Dennis Tito’s
backed operations.
Mexico – the world’s first privately financed spaceflight
energy than a sub-orbital flight. “The first re-useable private spaceport designed to Mars.
low-orbit spaceplane would revolutionise space 2001 by Foster + Partners.
travel much as George Stephenson did land travel Space Adventures Ltd, a USA- 2020
and the Wright brothers did air travel,” he says. based space tourism company, 2012 The Space Island Project
kicks-off the private spaceflight
“To get space travel really off the ground we have Falcon 9, a rocket owned plans to have 20,000 people
industry with the flight of the
by SpaceX, a private space on their ‘space island’, with the
to go fully orbital.” world's first space tourist,
company, carries the unmanned number of people doubling
Indeed, the quest to go further and further Dennis Tito.
Dragon capsule into space each decade.
into space, rather than simply skim its edge, is – marking the first time a
2004 private company has sent a
growing too. Tom Shelley is president of Space 2023
The Ansari X Prize is won spacecraft to the space station.
Adventures, a company developing its own sub- Plan for four humans to land on
by Scaled Composites SpaceX anticipates that Dragon
Mars for permanent settlement
orbital programme but better known for organising using the experimental could be qualified for human
– the first stage of Mars One.
all eight space flights by private individuals to date, spaceplane SpaceShipOne – spaceflight within 3 years of the
later joining forces with Richard receipt of NASA Commercial
and which will be shooting singer Sarah Brightman Branson to launch the Virgin Crew Development funding 2028
to the stars – for some $50m – in October 2015, the Galactic service. (due mid-2014). Predicted start of extreme-
same year Galactic takes off. And is it going further vacationing by billionaire class
still, planning a mission passing around the dark 2005 Mars One is announced – in ‘orbital super yachts’.
side of the moon for 2017. One person is already The Personal Spaceflight a private spaceflight project,
Federation (PSF) is conceived led by Dutch entrepreneur 2033
under contract for that with a second expected by a group of leaders in Bas Lansdorp, to establish Mars One predicted to have
to sign this year, at $150m a pop. the newly emerging private a permanent human colony 20 settlers in its colony and,
“There are huge amounts of money now going spaceflight industry. on Mars. an America’s Cup ‘Off-World’
into development to allow people to get into space,” competition to be in the
2006 2013 sporting calendar.
says Shelley. “Going into low Earth orbit is not
Space Adventures Ltd begins Dennis Tito announces his
that difficult anymore, so the likes of NASA are offering a spacewalk option to intention to send a privately
less concerned about controlling the technology. its clients travelling to the ISS. financed spaceflight to Mars.
And the whole scene has become much more The spacewalk would allow In 2018, the planets will
participants to spend up to align, offering a unique orbit
entrepreneurial. This kind of change always seems opportunity to travel to Mars
1.5 hours outside of the space
just a couple of years away but sub-orbital travel is station and costs about US$15 and back to Earth in only
absolutely going to happen now. In fact, space travel million (in addition to the price 501 days.
is going to be huge – the market will be opened up of the space flight of approx.
US$20 million). 2015
to millions of people around the world and the
Virgin Galactic plan to start
S m a r t ly
next 15 years or so will see a dramatic increase in Anousheh Ansari becomes taking paying passengers
vehicles to take them there. Then we need to tackle the fourth (and first female) into low-orbit – allowing them
‘proper’ spaceflight, which will require a step change space tourist. to experience a zero-gravity
in technology – a space elevator, a new kind of environment.
propulsion, bigger vehicles. That’s in the future.” 2008
Richard Garriott visits the Space Adventures Ltd plan
Travelling further into deep space may in all ISS as the sixth self-funded to launch lunar missions to
d r e ss e d
reality not happen for centuries, or never happen tourist, returning 12 days later. circumnavigate the moon.
at all: it would take four years to reach the nearest He becomes the second Pricing has been announced at
person, and first American, US$100 million per passenger.
star and that is at the theoretically-unsurpassable
to be a second-generation
speed of light; the impact on travellers’ physical and space traveller. Excalibur Almaz, a private
psychological states may make it impossible. company based in the Isle
But, in the meantime, even those lucky enough of Man, expects to undertake
the first of their private voyages
to catch a ride on Galactic should be prepared for a to the moon.
life-changing experience. Cernan, of course, has
experienced the ultimate in space travel yet known
to man. “There are no words to describe being on
the moon,” he says. “You have to feel it. If you want “ Travelling into space is to The things we wear are becoming intelligent. From internet-enabled
to get imaginative about it, it’s like being on God’s
enter the greatest unknown.”
front porch, faced with the endlessness of time and
space.” But he is in no doubt that even a taste of Eugene Cernan
glasses that sense what interests us, to workout clothes designed
that sparks feelings of awe and profundity. “You
can walk the floor of the deepest ocean or stand on
to improve posture. We discover how style is getting smarter.
the highest mountain, but you’re still on Earth,” Writer Rebecca Hattersley
he notes. “Travelling into space is to enter the
greatest unknown.”
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that features 100 tiny solar panels on the bag’s
exterior, generating enough power for your
TO BE AHEAD OF
mobile device. Opening the bag also activates
fibre optics to assist with finding your keys at
THE GAME IS TO
night. Snazzy. DEMONSTRATE
Designer Richard Nicoll has fused fashion
CAPABILITY, WHICH
T
he age of wearables is upon us. Fashion with technology in the form of a tote bag that
can charge iPhone, Blackberry and Android
designers and engineers are collaborating
to develop smart garments that merge devices by plugging into a discreet pocket IN TURN OFFERS
fashion with technology to great effect. No inside. An LED charm on the exterior of the bag
flashes to alert the user of an incoming call. The
RESILIENCE IN AN
longer is identity and expression limited to our
choice in clothing, but the sophisticated, even bag must be initially charged from the mains
power via induction charging, using a cable that
UNCERTAIN WORLD
imperceptible, technologies embedded within.
Technology touches every part of our lives, so it magnetically attaches to the outside, but once
was only a matter of time before it aligned itself the battery is full, it will charge handsets and that eco fashion is no longer just a lifestyle
on the fashion scape, shaping and influencing mobile tablets for at least two days. choice, but a smart choice that is working its way
the wardrobe of tomorrow. In 2012 Nike brought us the FuelBand, into mainstream conscience.
Of course, fashion would not be fashion a simple, lightweight device worn around the Wearable technology is advancing
without the bold and attention seeking. In a wrist to track activity throughout the day. way beyond multitasking handbags and
battle between function and innovation, it is Information is collected and sent to a profile in motivational talking trainers (Google). Colour-
the designs that exceed limitations that drive order to capture, save and interpret the metrics changing couture dresses or strap-on cat’s ears
demand. The arrival of wearable technology was in a meaningful way. LEDs indicate how far you that respond to the user’s brainwaves with an
never going to be a quiet one. But there are also are towards your goal. The FuelBand, rather appropriate wiggle, flop or perk are available,
the practical and relevant designs: tech fashions pleasingly, lights up with the word GOAL when should you so desire. But there is also evidence
that are helping people to navigate their lives you’ve made it. A product with the potential to of more serious work being done: data gloves
more easily. rival the FuelBand is the Armour39 monitoring that help to diagnose arthritis and GPS-enabled
03 garments designed with female safety in mind.
Under the heading of wearable technology system from American sports brand, Under
are three principal and interrelated platforms: Armour, currently being developed but Regardless of where the future takes us
social interaction, health and wellbeing, and promising to be “the first true measure of there will always be those products and designs
04
sustainability. The designers that are really an athlete”. that verge on the weird and not so wonderful.
getting it right are focusing on the inherent Move is a technology garment that guides Wherever fashion goes, novelty will surely
technology within a product, enhancing user the user toward optimal performance and follow. Arguments will continue that such
intelligence and seamlessly augmenting our precision in movement. The athletic top is products are catering for a supposed gap that
suitable for a range of activities including doesn’t actually need filling – fine for celebrities
personal needs and desires. THE DESIGNERS pilates, yoga and golf, helping to alleviate and athletes, but what about the rest of us.
THAT ARE REALLY incorrect physical movement. The garment
includes stretch and bend sensors located in
But to be ahead of the game is to demonstrate
capability, which in turns offers resilience in an
GETTING IT RIGHT the front, back and sides, which together read uncertain world. A 3D printed dress is nothing
your body’s position and muscle movement, if not ambitious. The designs of Iris van Herpen
02
ARE FOCUSING assess whether it is correct and provide real- are undeniably artful sculptures, resembling
We are experiencing a revolution of time feedback to improve it. Move is still in something closer to body armour – a post-
connectivity. Things have come a long way ON THE INHERENT development stage with electricfoxy, a Seattle- apocalyptic response, perhaps? Earlier this year
since the humble calculator watch of the 1980s, based company that works to blend fashion, Nike unveiled their Nike Vapor Laser Talon,
possibly one of the first universal examples of TECHNOLOGY technology and interactive design, but the built specifically for the 40-yard dash, using
a technology driven fashion accessory. Google
Glass, an internet-connected, voice-controlled
WITHIN A PRODUCT, market for stylish workout gear that doubles as
a personal trainer is clearly growing.
a revolutionary 3D printed plate to provide
optimum traction on football turf, helping
computer and camera is without doubt one of
this year’s breakout products, as seen on the
ENHANCING USER There’s no escaping that consumer habits
such as fast fashion are impacting on the
footballers to achieve their full potential. 3D
printing is just one example of how technology
runway at Diane von Furstenberg’s Spring/ INTELLIGENCE planet with negative consequence. For some is working with the human body in pioneering
Summer 2013 show. Apple’s iWatch is proof the future of fashion lies not in design but in new ways, admittedly with varying degrees
that speculation is one of the most powerful AND SEAMLESSLY smarter fabrics. Textile innovator, Elisabeth of sensibility.
marketing tools. Whilst still very much under de Senneville’s recent work has shown clothing In our needs-driven society we are always
wraps, rumours include a 90s slap-band strap, AUGMENTING OUR lined with a thin layer of charcoal as a filter looking for a solution to a problem. Much like
curved battery (for which a patent has been against pollution. Other work includes a light in fashion, needs are contrary, diverse and
awarded) and an aesthetic appealing to both
PERSONAL NEEDS weave of silver metal, which protects against ever changing. In an attempt to satisfy our
sexes. Something we can be more certain of
is heavy competition from other tech giants;
AND DESIRES the magnetic waves omitted from mobile phone
usage. And it doesn’t stop there. By using a
continuously shifting demands, industry has
responded with innovation. We have proven
Smartphone manufacturer Samsung is also recipe of yeast, sweetened tea and bacteria, ourselves to be adaptive in the face of change,
in the process of joining the Smartwatch 01 Electricfoxy Ping London-based designer, Suzanne Lee is literally possibly because of our preoccupation with
bandwagon. 02 Eclipse solar bag growing clothes that are surprisingly attractive. the future. You need only observe the number
Continuing with the theme of gadgets 03 Concept Apple iWatch design With the fashion textile industry desperately of people with a Smartphone, now a norm for
but from more of an ecological angle is the by Esben Oxholm looking to reduce its carbon footprint, Lee’s most – an almost unconscious accessory.
use of solar-powered accessories. Diffus, an 04 Diane von Furstenberg's S/S 2013 BioCouture has already gathered interest from Brace yourself – we are entering a high tech
interactive design firm, have created a handbag show featuring Google Glass several global clothing manufacturers. It seems fashion future.
01
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Homes & London – 23The future issue in your school dressing gown."
Movers+shakers I don't entirely understand, MS Don't make compromises;
but it's stuck with me. be concerned about doing
good work.
Is it the location – smack between east and west, with H&L The best professional advice
the Greenwich meridian running dissecting the city in you would give? H&L And the best professional
two? Or the scores of respected universities located here, SB Spend a couple hours a day advice you would give? Martina Spetlova’s AW13 collection
attracting young bright minds? Or is it the idiosyncratic on the phone.
wit and colliding cultures that makes London one of the
best cities in the world to be a creative? Photograph by Nathan Pask
H&L Where do you go in the city Don't make
for inspiration?
“Even in the US, you'd be stretched to find an example
of a city that can boast of having all this in one place,” Q&A SB The Sir John Soane Museum, Q&A compromises;
Martina Spetlova
points out Seena Rejal, one of the London’s new wave Sam Bompas
Designer and co-founder
a strange house belonging to
one of Britain's foremost Fashion designer be concerned
of Internet entrepreneurs. “It's usually one or the other:
financial capital, tech capital, or political capital.” of Bompas & Parr architects. It is a cabinet of Czech-born Spetlova is a trained about doing
We spoke to five of London’s most exciting names Bompas & Parr cast culinary
curiosities crammed full of
architectural ornaments, looted
chemist but switched her focus
and home city of Prague, when
good work. MS
to find out what it is about the city that excites them wizardry all over London by from round the world. He even she moved to London to study
and pushes them to create. designing and staging grand H&L Where do you go in the
had a live-in mystic. at the city’s prestigious fashion
scale experiential gastronomy city for inspiration?
H&L And where do you go school of Central Saint Martins.
Tata Naka, photo: Alexandra Constantinides events and installations. Their MS Of course I browse libraries,
in the city to relax? “Londoners are cosmopolitan”,
reputation for frivolity has go to exhibitions and get inspired
SB The Barbican's secret jungle she says of her adopted home,
attracted clients including by the city, but after that initial
conservatory is one of the lushest “it is great for that.”
Selfridges, Kraft Foods and research I start experimenting
Courvoisier. Not bad for places in London combining The buzz surrounding the city’s with colour and texture. I am
something that started life as Brutalist architecture, tropical fashion scene is tangible and very hands-on, and my best ideas
“something fun to do on the plants and terrapins. it offers a young designer like come from working at my studio.
weekend”, as Bompas puts it. Spetlova support and a showcase
H&L When you are away from H&L And where do you go
London what do you miss for her work, which features
In the past they have flooded in the city to relax?
most about it? woven, pleated and puckered
33 Portland Place with over MS I walk on the embankment
SB The folk who live in the leathers in eye-watering bright
four tonnes of alcoholic punch on a quiet day.
city; beneath the steely veneer colourways.
and cast London’s most prized
Londoners have a kindness and H&L When you are away from
architectural landmarks in jelly. H&L Where do you live in London
humour that is totally missed London what do you miss
This summer Bompas & Parr will and how long have you been
somewhere like New York. most about it?
transform the Palm House pond in the city?
MS Good coffee.
at Kew Gardens into the Tutti MS I moved here about 15 years
H&L If you were mayor for the
Frutti Lake – a giant fruit salad ago and I have always lived in H&L What is your most lasting
day what would you do?
navigable by rowboats. east London. memory of the city?
SB Dye the Thames green.
MS When I cycled The Parkland
H&L How long have you lived H&L Where is work and what is
H&L Best place for a breakfast Walk; it is an old railway line that
in the city? the best thing about your office?
meeting? runs from Finsbury Park all the
SB I am a native, so my entire life. MS My studio is in Dalston where
SB Albion restaurant. way to Edgware.
I'm sharing warehouse space with
H&L Where is work and what is
H&L Best spot after hours? other designers/makers. The best H&L If you were mayor for
the best thing about your office?
SB There's joy to be found in thing is that it is 15 minutes' walk the day what would you do?
SB Our studio is just between
London's local pubs. The Lord from my house, but I look out MS Better cyclist roads please.
Tate Modern and Borough
Clyde is directly between my on a red brick wall.
Market. We are blessed with fine H&L Best place for a breakfast
studio and house, and is a beauty.
ingredients and inspiration all the H&L Why did you initially choose meeting?
year round. H&L Tell us a fact about the to set up in London? MS Canal cafe on a sunny day.
city that we might not know. MS After graduating from Central
H&L Why do you think London is H&L Best spot after hours?
Saint Martins it was an obvious
a good city to be an entrepreneur MS Anywhere in Dalston
or a start-up? The first over- choice to stay here.
in general.
SB The Greenwich Meridian H&L Why do you think London is
arbitrarily runs through the ground train a good city to be an entrepreneur
H&L Best view?
MS At night, the top floor of
capital. Over the past year we've
been working in six of the seven
that ran through or a start-up?
MS London offers lots of support
the Regents studio building,
continents, so it's been helpful London was to young fashion companies. H&L Tell us a fact about the
in terms of arranging phone calls.
disguised as a It is also more challenging to
stand out and to make a point
city that we might not know.
MS I just recently learned that
H&L What is the best piece
of professional advice you series of boats of difference. it was mostly women who built
Waterloo Bridge.
have received?
SB The only advice I remember
so it didn't alarm H&L What is the best piece
of professional advice you
is bewildering and was given people. SB have received?
as I left. "Never commit adultery
Strawberry Tender, photo: Nathan Pask Photography
24 – Homes & London Homes & London – 25The future issue multi-disciplinary fields, and H&L How long have you H&L What does the city offer that H&L If you were mayor for
Movers+shakers we draw on London's massive been in the city? you could not get elsewhere? the day what would you do?
creative culture to feed web PO I’ve been here for over 12 PO London has influences from PO I would multiply the efforts
developments. years, with a few stints abroad. absolutely everywhere and these to tackle the number of cycle
collide with English wit. accidents in the city. Of all the
H&L What does the city offer H&L Where is work and what is
cities I have cycled in, London
that you could not get elsewhere? the best thing about your office? H&L What is the best piece
is by far the worst.
SR A melange of leading PO I both live and have my studio of professional advice you
universities, financial institutions, in the Brunswick Centre. The have received? H&L Best place for
creative agencies, think tanks best thing about the space is the a breakfast meeting?
and policy institutions, linked Q&A sunlight and glimpsing my small
Stay on the Bus. PO Espresso Room on Great
together by a comprehensive Pernilla Ohrstedt tree collection on the terrace. Ormond Street – amazing coffee,
Q&A
infrastructure and fused by
London’s unique culture, which
Architect and co-founder H&L Why did you initially choose Look up Helsinki plenty of seats, great people.
of Pernilla-Asif
Dr Seena Rejal is a mix of tradition, idiosyncrasy
to set up in London?
PO I came to study art and
Bus Station H&L Best spot after hours?
PO I like dancing. Notting Hill
Internet entrepreneur Stockholm-born Ohrstedt works
and CEO of 3D Industri.es
and innovation.
as an architect, designer and design at Saint Martins and then Theory for an Arts Club has never let me down.
H&L What is the best piece
Rejal is part of London’s new of professional advice you
curator; “London has by far the
most interesting scene right now
architecture at the Bartlett. That
took seven years! I got hooked on explanation. PO H&L Best view?
Internet revolution. His start-up PO Regents Canal. Walk or cycle
have received? for young architects,” she thinks. the city and found it hard
3D Industri.es is organising an H&L And the best professional eastwards in the morning and
SR Sometimes it is better to ask She works in a collaborative to leave.
internet of objects with a search advice you would give? westwards in the evening.
for forgiveness than permission. partnership with Asif Khan, and
engine that allows users to search H&L Why do you think London PO Stay on the Bus.
together they designed the H&L Tell us a fact about the
the web for 3D parts and plans. H&L And the best professional is a good city to be an
celebrated interactive Coca-Cola H&L And where do you city that we might not know.
“It's an exciting time to be here,” advice you would give? entrepreneur or a start-up?
pavilion for the London 2012 go in the city to relax? PO The Eros statue on Piccadilly
Rejal, a born Londoner explains. SR Always consult but have PO It has some of the best design
Olympic Park. Visitors could play PO I stay at home! is in fact Anteros Agape, Eros’s
“And it’s pre-saturation point, conviction in your eventual schools in the world that attracts
the fractious and faceted red prudish brother. It is by Sir Alfred
so it is on the rise.” He believes decisions. young talent. A lot of that talent H&L What is your most lasting
box like a musical instrument. Gilbert, and is one of the first
London’s location, perfectly stays. This means an endless memory of the city?
H&L When you are away from Ohrstedt spent most of last statues to be cast in aluminum,
positioned between east and potential to collaborate with PO Running with the Olympic
London what do you miss most summer at the park; “some of the which is how it can balance
west, will ensure it remains an creative clever people. torch last summer!
about it? best months of my life,” she says. so elegantly on one leg.
international hub. “When a
man is tired of London” he says
acknowledging the old adage, London!
“he is tired of life!”
Seriously, it's that
H&L Where do you live in London
and how long have you been mix of having
in the city?
SR Born and bred in London.
everything, but
Now I live in Pimlico, overlooking with the right
the river.
level of intensity
H&L Where is work and what is
the best thing about your office? – it's just right. SR
SR I have a fantastic studio space
adjoining my apartment. Our H&L What is your most
building had a brief moment lasting memory of the city?
of glory as a backdrop to scenes SR The Olympics of the summer
in the latest Bond movie. gone is prominent.
H&L Why did you initially choose H&L Best place for
to set up in London? a breakfast meeting?
SR It was emerging as an Internet SR The Wolseley or the
hub and we wanted to be part Regency Café.
of it. Resources seemed more H&L Best view?
readily accessible. Also, London SR Waterloo Bridge at night,
is a great brand and any business looking both up and down
gains from that association. the river.
H&L Why do you think London is H&L Tell us a fact about the
a good city to be an entrepreneur city that we might not know.
or a start-up? SR The Mitras temples found
SR Start-up culture has now in the city are a direct link with
well and truly arrived here. the Persians via the Romans.
There is an enormous amount
happening across intersecting Coca-Cola Beatbox by Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt, photo: Hufton & Crow
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Movers+shakers H&L What does the city offer
that you can’t get elsewhere?
TC It is such a cosmopolitan city.
We are so near Europe and there
are so many connections.
H&L What is the best piece
of professional advice you
Deluxe room at The Zetter Townhouse
have received?
Q&A TC Work hard or look busy.
Tony Conigliaro H&L The best professional advice
Bartender and owner of you would give?
69 Colebrooke Row and TC Work hard or look busy.
The Zetter Townhouse It is a good one to pass on.
Born in Greenwich, Conigliaro H&L Where do you go
has run some of the city’s best in the city for inspiration?
bars. His experimental and TC There are loads of places.
molecular approach to mixing The museums – the V&A is
led him to co-founding the Drinks especially good; any number
Factory, a creative lab for like- of the parks; or any number
minded bartenders to come and of the restaurants.
innovate the craft. Conigliaro
loves London; “it is only when you H&L And where do you
show others round your own city, go in the city to relax?
do you realise how many great TC My back garden.
things there are here.” With two
H&L When you are away from
successful bars already found
London what do you miss most
in the city, the entrepreneur set
about it?
his sites on the other side of the
TC The Londoner’s sense
channel and opened his latest
of humour.
venture, Le Cog, in Paris late
last year. H&L What is your most lasting
memory of the city?
H&L How long have you lived
TC There are too many to
in the city?
mention. When I think of London
TC I’m a Londoner. I have lived
I think of it as a sum of a whole
north, west, south and east in the
load of different parts.
city but right now I live off the
Gray’s Inn Road – it’s so central. H&L If you were mayor for
I can get to work by walking, I can the day what would you do?
get to the Eurostar by walking TC I’d take the day off!
and I can get to a major airport
H&L Best spot after hours?
very easily.
TC Drinking? We can’t condone
H&L Where is work and what is that! One of the hotel bars.
the best thing about your office?
H&L Best view?
TC We have a fantastic research
TC The best view in London
and development lab in the
at the moment is from the Oblix
Drinks Factory, which is located
restaurant on the 32nd floor
in an old building where Pink
of the Shard.
Floyd used to record.
H&L Tell us a fact about the city
H&L Why do you think London is
that we might not know.
a good city to be an entrepreneur
or a start-up?
TC I’ve lived here all my life. Stalin and
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