This December Rambling Restaurant was hugely excited to be invited to run a pop-up café at the Somerset House Super Christmas Design Fair (Emma and Mei are deep in concentration in the photo above, but believe me, they were bubbling inside). Next to the skating rink, in the maze of rooms that makes up the East Wing, stalls were were manned by established designers and students from the Royal College of Art and Camberwell College. There were all sorts of original Christmas presents to be had, from the sublime to the silly, including hip flasks for two; chocolate battleships; i-pod cuckoo clocks; newsprint wallets; moustache brooches and my favourite – the share-faces-with-your-friends-and-relatives mirror. This is a hard one to explain, but hilarious and at least an hour of fun.
We teamed up with some students from RCA who were working on food design projects. Read the rest of this entry »
