Harrods Design Icons: What Makes a Design Iconic?

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Tuesday 15th April 2008

Speakers: Matteo Alessi, Roland Mouret, former Editorial Director of icon magazine Aidan Walker, and Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum in London

Individual icons in their respective trades, this illustrious and learned panel offer an insight into their personal experiences and consider the journeys their iconic ideas have travelled.Launching the programme, this lecture poses the question: What makes a design iconic? Panel members discuss what they consider to be iconic designs, and deliver a general discussion about the impact and importance such items have in our lives.

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Education

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• ART
• Fashion
• Design
• Harrods
• Icons
• Knightsbridge
• lectures