kbb London 2009
Show Highlights
We are currently working on some exciting features and highlights for kbb London to run alongside the topical seminar programme. Make sure you keep checking the website for further details, but for now this is what we have confirmed...
Exclusive look at the Electrolux Design Lab finalists
Electrolux has shortlisted this years top nine Design Lab finalists in its global competition with the iGeneration theme.
kbb London is offering visitors an opportunity to see the competition winner and all finalists models as part of a Futures presentation within the show, the first time these products have been seen in the UK. For Design Labs sixth edition, Electrolux invited undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create tomorrows home appliances for the Internet generation. Submissions needed to be designed for 2-3 years into the future and address food storage, cooking, and/or washing. More than 600 entries were received from 49 countries around the world.
The competition targets the upper-age segment of the Internet Generation (25-35) comprising brand-conscious, busy young professionals who are independent, concerned about the environment, and whose lives are intertwined with technology and online social networks.
kbb London is now a Carbon Neutral Event
We have been working with the Carbon Neutral Company who have ascertained what our carbon footprint will be for the show and have set up a programme so that every tonne of CO2 produced by kbb London will be offset by projects elsewhere in the world. We have chosen a programme in India which reduces emissions through a Waste Heat Recovery project and is combined with an initiative that promotes an innovative lighting solution for midwives. Click here to read more on the programme or visit the Carbon Neutral Company website by clicking here.
Innovative seminar programme
Speakers that have confirmed their involvement include:
- Paolo Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina Extra and designer of kitchen furniture, bathrooms and domestic appliances
- Henrik Otto, head of global design for Electrolux
- Robin Levien RDI, head of Studio Levien and design director for Ideal Standard
- Barrie Cutchie, the man who helped to invent Victoriana? bathrooms and who now heads up BC Designs which specialises in bathroom lighting and freestanding baths
- Helen Fewster and Rebecca Tucker of Suna Design, an interior design company that specialises in show home design
- Alison Andrews from Symphony, the UKs largest privately owned kitchen company supplying the social housing market, developers and retail KBB showrooms
For more information on the seminar programme click here
