It’s rare when you’re as seasoned as us in the old furniture game, that a product stops you in your tracks. But with a top made from interlocking dyed elements all with a different tonal hue, Winter and Kurth’s Escher-like side table did just that, as we puzzled how the Manchester duo ever created it. It must have had a similar affect on the judges at New Designers, the UK’s biggest exhibition of emerging talent set torun between 27 June and 7 July 2018 at Business Design Centre in London. Last year this esteemed panel of industry experts awarded the talented pair The One Year On 2017 award, which provided Winter and Kurth with a year’s tutelage from The Design Trust and Design Nation.
This year with a slight name-tweak, One Year In is a showcase and celebration of the 100 most promising emerging designers, studios and new creative businesses. It’s part of annual showcase New Designers, an exhibition of more than 3,000 of the most promising graduate designers from disciplines as broad as glassmaking, gaming, photography and fashion. Carefully curated by jewellery designer and entrepreneur Rheanna Lingham, One Year In is the perfect place to spot new talent to hire or commission that, like Winter and Kurth, have a range of viable products ready to go.
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