London Design Festival | What's Up, Dock?

Tom Dixon’s new showroom at Portobello Dock.

Young designers at this year's London Design Festival have found a new patron saint in Tom Dixon, who recently moved his studio to a former Virgin Records recording studio in a newly minted business complex called Portobello Dock. The design superstar is not only opening a new showroom there this week but has also collaborated with the complex’s developer to fill two of its other buildings with mostly British, mostly emerging