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PAD London 2023

The fair celebrates its 15th anniversary, a period of huge change for London’s design scene. Plus: interviews with designers Max Lamb and Kenneth Grange and we look at a new museum of green design in Finland

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PAD celebrates 15 years of opening London’s eyes to design
The fair has driven a global wave of interest in collectible design and functional art
Designer Max Lamb: ‘Touch, touch, touch’
Tactility is key to his furniture, which includes tables made from pulped cardboard and polystyrene chairs
Gagosian Open takes art outside the white cube
Its first project is installing Christo’s sculptures in an 18th-century house in east London
A new museum in Finland marries green design and gilt-framed paintings
Chappe is showing macroalgae sculptures next to its seascapes
Kenneth Grange: ‘The government once had ideas about how to use design’
The designer behind the InterCity 125 train and the Kenwood Chef helped modernise Britain
Resin adds a sculptural mystery to design
The material has a translucence and endurance that attracts makers

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