Selected events will take place for the duration of LDF23, please consult the Park Royal Design District website for details.

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City & Docklands is delighted to announce that it will be partnering for a third consecutive year, with the Park Royal Design District.

Now in its third year, Park Royal Design District is home to a cluster of fresh creative talent and one of the Mayor’s newest Creative Enterprise Zones. Visitors to the area will uncover an inclusive, collaborative community of new and established creatives, thriving within buildings repurposed from the area’s rich history in the automotive and culinary industries. This unique landscape has inspired an exciting mix of disciplines, many finding inspiration from reclaimed materials and repurposed offcuts from their industrial neighbours. With recurring themes of circularity and resourcefulness, Park Royal is an industrial area getting a makeover through urban greening and sustainable urban design.

An incubator for fresh design talent, the district will offer an engaging programme of exhibitions, open studios, demonstrations, workshops and product launches across a diverse range of disciplines. Designers’ and makers’ specialisms include leathercraft, millinery, art, furniture design, glasswork, sustainable fashion and product design.
Highlights of Park Royal Design District include:

Bill Amberg Studio
Sustainable Furniture Collection Launch
Bill Amberg Studio has existed for over 30 years, and today stands as an industry leader in bespoke leather products, interiors and furniture. Bringing together artisans from the worlds of saddlery, bag making, bookbinding and other forms of fine leathercraft, the studio has a mission to explore the aesthetic and material possibilities of leather, while also proudly holding its practices and those of its partner tanneries and suppliers to the industry’s highest ethical and sustainability standards.

For LDF, Bill Amberg Studio will open the doors to their London workshop and launch a new collection of sustainable furniture in leather and black ash. The Bill Amberg Collection will be available to view at the Bill Amberg Studio during LDF. www.billamberg.com 14 Minerva Road, London NW10 6HJ

Above: Bill Amberg in his studio, Right: Bill Amberg Leather and Black Ash Collection

Standard Studios
Open Studios and Street Market
Standard Studios, a creative studio and maker space, is hosting open studios and a market selling street food and artisan crafts.

Highlights include; Antonia Claudie a luxury lifestyle brand that focuses on sustainability and elegant designs. Offering handcrafted interior products, including wall art and accessories such as lampshades, as well as wearable silk scarves and bows. Woodworker Peter Booth specialises in anxiety relief sculptures made in a variety of woods such as walnut, pine, Sapele and Mahogany. Standard Studios, 9-11 Standard Road, London NW10 6EX

Above: Peter Booth Designs anxiety bear

Excelsior Studios
Open Studios and Open04 Group Exhibition
Excelsior Studios, a community of artists, makers and creators in Park Royal, are hosting Open Studios in fashion, fine art, sculpture and design; as well as OPEN04, a group exhibition showcasing multidisciplinary work from Park Royal based artists featuring live printing sessions with the artists.
Highlights include open studios from; fashion designer Timothy Gibbons who recently dressed Travis Scott, ceramicist Grace McCarthy whose work is stocked by prominent UK retailers and sustainable, functional and durable clothing created for the modern-day working person by Borough Workwear. www.excelsior.london Excelsior Studios, 17-19 Sunbeam Road London NW10 6JP

Above: Timothy Gibbons custom Utopia corset hoodie worn by Travis Scott

DanDyDSGN
Niche and Iconic Vintage Designs
From past to present for a better future! DanDyDSGN furniture research focuses on three fundamental criteria: character, character, and character. More than retailing furniture, visual artist Dan Mauz founder of DanDyDSGN, approaches the furniture business as an extension of his creative production. With a firm eye on the sculptural quality of the items he collects, at DanDyDSGN everything from lounge chairs and lamps to sofas and tables wants to tell a story, evoke imagines… ‘Niche and iconic vintage designs that inspire and keep company!’ Dan says. Quality has never been more fun.

Items will be on sale at Standard Market during LDF23. www.dandydsgn.com Standard Market, Standard Road, Park Royal, London, NW10 6EU

DanDyDSGN furniture

Regan Boyce
Consume: Enter Through The Gift Shop
Regan Boyce is a multidisciplinary artist, sculptor and print-maker, his work ranges from large steel sculptural objects, light works and abstract silk screens. For LDF23, Regan presents ‘Consume: Enter through the Gift Shop’, an immersive art installation confronting a world where name and logo have become commodified and worshiped, whether a statement of wealth, success or obsession has the ‘Brand’ become more important than what it is stamped onto? Be confronted by CONSUME, a space taken over by the “brand”, inspired by both vintage and modern consumerism, where all that’s important is the packaging. ww.reganboyce.co.uk/consume Standard Studios, 9-11 Standard Road, London NW10 6EX

Left: Regan Boyce in his studio

West London Art Factory
Open Studios & Exhibition
West London Art Factory started life as a screenprinting workshop with a small selection of private studios. In 2017 they relocated to Park Royal to a bigger premises. Set across 6000sq ft of space are 24 studios which is now home to a vibrant creative community of artists, designers, music producers, makers and creators. The Open Studios & Exhibition will take place at West London Art Factory, 153 Dukes Road, London W30SL

West London Art Factory Studios

Coco
Uplift and Upcycle Embroidery Workshop
Multi-media artist Coco, combines fine art with craft allowing pieces of art to be used daily, to be seen and worn and not restricted to a gallery space or an institution’s storage. During a 2-hour workshop, Coco will teach 8 stitches ranging from beginner to more complex and decorative, and give students the opportunity to freestyle on their own items of clothing, with the new skills that they have learnt. Patches of vintage fabric are provided. These sessions will be focused on upcycling, so participants can bring an item of clothing to embellish and breathe new life into. POW Craft Room, EX2, 41-43 Standard Road, NW10 6HF

Coco embroidery

Re-Made in Park Royal
Materials Exchange Hub Re-Made in Park Royal
Since March, Re-Made has collected 400 wood pallets, 5 film sets and 2 shop interiors, plus 4 tonnes of raw clay from a nearby HS2 construction site. Find out how these materials have been saved from landfill, and transformed by local artists and makers, demonstrating the potential for a circular economy. www.remadeinparkroyal.com EX2, 41-43 Standard Road London NW10 6HF

Re-Made in Park Royal Materials Exchange Hub

Queensrollahouse
Open Studios and rooftop restaurant and bar
Queensrollahouse, is a 12,000 sq ft former Rolls Royce warehouse converted using found materials into purpose-built space for artists and makers. Approached as an evolving sculptural work by its founder, the artist Henry Krokatsis, the studios and project space now act as an unfolding socially engaged sculpture, a catalyst for inquiry, experimentation and inspiration. LDF23 will showcase open studios, workshops and exhibitions. Their rooftop restaurant and bar will be open, with stunning views across the Westway. Open studio highlights include; artist, textile designer & creative director Zakee Shariff whose previous collaborators include Channel 4, Selfridges, Nike and Paul Smith and Cas Pollen, a designer working in the unique field of Verre Eglomise, gilding precious metals on the reverse side of clear glass, plus art exhibition ‘Generation & Display’.

About Park Royal

Old Oak and Park Royal is rich with social history and heritage. The name Park Royal draws on its beginnings as a rural landscape (it was grounds to the Royal Agricultural Show in 1903), but it soon became a transport and industrial powerhouse. The area has been moulded by its history of manufacturing and production, providing employment for many first-generation immigrant populations, creating a place of diverse and changing communities.

Park Royal is known as ‘London’s Kitchen’ for good reason: an incredible one third of all food consumed by Londoners comes from here, supplying some 3.1 million meals every year, from local cafés to the West End’s most sought-after restaurants. Indeed, some of the UK’s most iconic products have been made in Park Royal; from Guinness beer and McVitie’s biscuits to Rolls Royce cars. It’s also home to a host of small businesses, creative industries and global organisations.

Many of the unique, characterful homes in the area were developed by local businesses for their workers – such as the railway cottages at Old Oak Lane. Other landmarks include Kensal Green Cemetery, Wormwood Scrubs and the Grand Union Canal, opened in stages from 1794, with the 13.5-mile-long Paddington branch of the waterway dug by hand. Today, it serves as a place of leisure for walkers, runners, cyclists, canoeists and boaters.

Sponsors
Park Royal Design District is sponsored by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), City & Docklands and Imperial College London.