Village Fete at the Victoria and Albert Museum - 28th and 29th July 2000
Client: Victoria & Albert Museum

Stalls for the first fete included FAT’s cakes of unloved buildings (Sellafield, the Maize Prison), Bump’s Splat the Rat (win a pint of Bumpy Scrumpy) and Smash the Plate stall, Block and BCD’s fate (where the roll of a dice decided what design you would have printed on which item of clothing), Lifeform’s Beat the Buzzer, and Paul Khera’s elixirs for contemporary ailments. Michael Marriott manned the record decks as Barry the DJ. Following the tradition of all village fetes, stalls were judged for ‘Best in Show’ by designer Ron Arad and design ‘guru’ Stephen Bayley (won by Block and BCD). Scarlet Projects ran the ‘fish a fish’ stall where visitors hooked plastic fish out of the central fountain to win star prizes – including chairs by Tom Dixon, Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen and Robin Day. The fete was made possible by the generous sponsorship of Bloomberg. Graphics for the event were by British Creative Decay.