Solid Shell chair
To celebrate the 2010 London Design Festival and to mark the launch of their London store, the Lollipop Shoppe have invited ten influential furniture designers from across Europe to each create a bench for a public design installation. Contemporary public furniture today is largely utilitarian, to be sat on or eaten off. As a functional object offering the benefits of rest and reflection, time-out in a busy world, The Lollipop Shoppe felt that the humble bench deserved an updated, innovative design that really celebrated its possibilities. With this in mind, along with other recent public art initiatives that have taken the capital by storm, they have invited ten leading designers to create their own interpretation of the public seat, for a micro-exhibition that will be held on The Lollipop Shoppe’s own Old Spitalfields Market doorstep and will run throughout the festival.