The World of Hospitality Issue 23 2017 | Page 24

24 the World Of Hospitality 100% Design Leading international brands to show at 100% Design, the cornerstone event of London Design Festival New product launches from hundreds of exhibitors across Workplace, Interiors, Kitchens & Bathrooms, Design & Build and Emerging Brands Leading design journalist Max Fraser appointed Content Editor, producing features and installations inspired by theme, Elements More than 27,000 industry professionals with combined spending power of £3.9 billion 100% Design, the UK’s largest trade show for architects and designers, returns to Olympia, London from 20-23 September for its 23rd edition. The show welcomes hundreds of exhibitors and more than 27,000 visitors to the burgeoning design district of West Kensington over four days as the cornerstone event of the London Design Festival, helping to foster relationships between some of the world’s biggest architects, designers, specifiers, retailers and developers. Each year 100% Design adopts a theme, which is reflected across its installations, features, talks programmes and show design. Overseeing the implementation of the theme across these areas is newly appointed Content Editor, leading design journalist Max Fraser. For the 2017 edition this is Elements, which considers everything from the fundamentals of design to the component parts that make up a product, the materials used to the stories and processes of development. The show’s ‘Talks with 100% Design’ presents an agenda-setting programme exploring trends in contemporary practice as well as the future of design,