EVENTS : London Design Festival

One of the more poetic sights at the London Design festival is “Thin Black Lines,” an exhibition of new works by the Japanese design office Nendo at the Saatchi Gallery. Organized by Brent Dzekciorius of the auction house Phillips de Pury, the show (on view until the end of November) consists of pieces in steel that look like delicate, geometric line drawings, but which, when seen from certain angles, suddenly snap into three dimensions. Oki Sato, Nendo’s founder, who likens the designs to Japanese calligraphy, says that they “move alternately between the becoming and collapse of form.” In an adjoining gallery, the Projectory is a pop-up store (in place until April) that Dzekciorius has stocked with edgy pieces by young designers like Peter Marigold, Oscar Diaz and Leon Ransmeier.Another item on the less-is-more front: Last night at midnight, the British companyMinimalux unveiled its new accessories collection online. Under the creative direction of the designer Mark Homes (a founder of Established & Sons), Minimalux made its debut in April 2009 with a carefully edited group of silver- and gold-plated brass desk and table accessories that were notable for their luxurious minimalism — thus the name. The new collection has the same vibe, but at more accessible prices. A small cylindrical bowl, for example, is 49 pounds ($76) in anodized aluminum (in a variety of colors), as opposed to 395 pounds ($619) in gold-plated brass. And the flask-like Conical Vase, made of layers of borosilicate glass, copper and silver, looks as if costs a lot more than 95 pounds ($149). Even better for online shopaholics, items purchased on the Minimalux website can be shipped anywhere for 10 pounds ($15.65).