We wanted to thank all of you who came to Bar Alto and to De Stihl Camp #2. We had a great week with lots of happy faces, enjoying either our Feel Good lemonade, our Bethnal-green’s based Redchurch Brewery pale ale or our delicious Negronis…

Thank you!

We wanted also to specially thanks Anita, Sophie, Harry, Alice, Livia, Olivier and Laura and Olivier, Sophie, Mikka, Maurizio, Anette, Amy, Delphine & Ovanak, Hazel, Lara, Maria, Max, Lars, Tiago and Amandine for helping us so much during this week, and even beyond… Bar Alto couldn’t have existed without your support and smiles! Thank you so much!

Picture © London Event Photography for Designmarketo; see more here

Over the past few days, we have been asked over and over about Bar Alto, and Bar Basso, and what is it, and why, and how we came to this idea—and… Alex today made this very simple and super clear answer:

London so far has been somehow lacking this kind of place during its design week, and we hope we will offer to everyone popping by our take of this delicious and friendly atmosphere that radiate from Bar Basso during the Salone.

Please also note two recent updates on the website for our events during London Design Festival 2011:
Bar Alto address changed: 28 Redchurch Street / London E2 7DP—it’s next door, no worries :)
De Stihl Camp opening time: public access is now from 12:00 to 20:00

We would like to invite you to discover our 2 new projects for the London Design Festival this septembre: Bar Alto 2011: a popup bar, shop and exhibition rediscovering the Duralex tumbler, and De Stihl Camp x DesignMarketo: a steam-producing installation for food, furniture and sauna-a project by designers Olivier Lellouche and Olivier Lebrun.

* if you would like to be added to our press release, please feel free to get in touch: info@designmarketo.com

DesignMarketo
at the London
Design Festival 2011

For Bar Alto 2011 we invited Maurizio, the owner of the famous Bar Basso in Milan, to come over; partnering with Duralex, we also asked friends and designers Harry Thaler, Ally Capellino, Maria Jeglinska, Loris & Livia, Use Dev Org, Tomas Alonso, Nitzan Cohen, Lars Frideen, Chiara Onida and Michael Marriott to produce limited editions of their legendary tumbler, as well as accessories around it. Ally Capellino is launching a limited edition of the Bar Alto apron and to celebrate the opening of her new shop and our recent collaboration, there will be some surprises for our guests.
Their work will be on show and you will have the possibility to take home their productions.

Bar Alto 2011
20-25th September 2011
Redchurch Street E2 7DP
2pm-late
* Facebook event – feel free to invite your friends :)

Travelling from Paris Design Week, DE STIHL Camp’s idea revolves around a machine that produces steam for energy. Hot water baths and pressure cookers can initially be producing bentwood. The steam will loosen the fibers of wood to make it soft. The device goes far beyond a mere tool of production because the steam can also be used to prepare a meal as well as to power a sauna. The machine becomes a reason for making a social connection in a low-tech and slow context: we produce, we eat, we relax.
http://destihl.eu/

STIHL Camp
23, 24 and 25 sept 2011
1 Corbridge Crescent—London E2
48 hours installation/performance

Come for a drink and a sauna!

We have the opportunity to sell one-off projects in a new shop (online & physical: in Shoreditch); this is an event in relationship with the London Design Festival – and it will last 3 weeks starting from it.
We have been asked to gather projects (a bit like a music label doing a compilation) and we are looking for your proposals of limited edition.

That’s quite a thrilling opportunity for us (and you!) and we would love you to get in touch and let us know about your projects!

UPDATE: Thanks you all for your proposals (and retweet!). Selection is over, we had a nice bunch of projects and choice was hard – some projects we really liked will definitely be part of our future collections and events.