| Village Fete at the Victoria
and Albert Museum - 26th and 27th July 2002 Once again the Pirelli Garden was taken over by bunting and the rocking sounds of Barry’s Disco as the third Village Fete came to shake up the gentle calm of South Kensington. The atmosphere was more than a little high spirited as the Skull and Crossbones was hoisted up the V&A’s flagpole, and Bump’s remote controlled boats took over the fountain. This year there were more stalls than ever. Newcomers included Graphic Thought Facility, Ian Wright, Muf, and Airside who teamed up with the V&A. Ron Arad judged Jon Hares and Nic Barba’s ‘Workmate’ stall the ‘Best in Show’, where the phrase of your choice could be inexpertly routed on to the piece of wood of your choice. Among the other great stalls included abake’s words fashioned from their own body parts (mainly hands and arms) Carl Clerkin, Gitta Gschwendtner and Alex Rich’s Turkish Casino, Hyperkit’s Fuzzy Felts, GTF’s Penatly Shoot Out, and Caroline Brockbank’s Karaoke Popcorn. The Children’s Design Icon Fancy Dress, judged by Matthew Hilton, was won by Georgie Stevens who was dressed as an original Sony Walkman, runners up were Noah (again!) as a milk bottle, and Milo who came as The Spiral. Special Scarlet commendation to Zoom who came as a Dalek. Scarlet’s Tombola boasted spectacular prizes including the famous Stelton tea pot designed by Arne Jacobsen donated by Skandium, a Jacobsen table light donated by Louis Poulsen, an Ant Chair donated by Fritz Hansen (all three given in celebration of Jacobsen's centenary), a Verner Panton chair donated by Vitra, an E.1027 side table designed by Eileen Gray donated by Aram, a Jasper Morrison side chair donated by SCP, the famous Muji CD player donated by Muji, and a Wait chair donated by Matthew Hilton; other fantastic prizes were generously donated by Inflate, Mathmos, Habitat, Heals, Noel Hennessy, Precious McBane, BoConcepts, Kartell, Coexistence, Flin Flon, Alma Home, Vessel, Viaduct, Antoni & Alison, Nigel Coates, LSA International, V&A Enterprises, twentytwentyone, Tom Dixon, Applied Arts Agency, and Artek; with design books and magazines donated by Thames and Hudson, Laurence King Publishing, Taschen, Blueprint Magazine, Mitchell Beazley, Booth Clibborn Editions, August Media and Zwemmers. Prizes were also kindly been donated by all the designers taking part in the fete. Profits went to the Motivation charity. The fete was sponsored once again by the Audi Design Foundation – to find out more about them, visit their web site at www.audidesignfoundation.org. Bump designed the graphics and the fete installation was designed and project managed by Matt Higgs.
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