Tickets? Passports? High healed sneakers? All packed and ready as our party, and we suspect it will be a party, of some of the most influential and inspiring American interior design and life style bloggers prepare  for five fantastic days reporting back from London Design Festival. Our previews continue to feature some of the work they will see. For the full story keep checking back both here and on the Blogtour site.

We seriously adore Curiousa & Curiousa who are exhibiting at Tent this year. Working from their studio in the Derbyshire town of Wirksworth, they create light pieces from cast bone china and hand blown glass and surface designs which are used on vintage or reproduction furniture. The results are beautiful but often challenging. There is a sincerity about their work which is missing from so much of the mass produced or marketing led design and manufacturing you see amongst the big big chains.