By Design

By Design, a talk series at Sir John Soane’s Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, invites internationally renowned designers to discuss their practice through a single object.

Inspired by Sir John Soane’s own extraordinary collection, and co-hosted by Will Gompertz, Arts Editor at the BBC, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design critic and author, the series reflects on the power of objects – large or small, mundane or exceptional, aesthetic or utilitarian – to spark new ideas, and act as a spur for different forms of creativity.