Clerkenwell Design Week 2022

  This year marked the 13th year of the London Clerkenwell Design Week. Like other shows during the global pandemic, this one had been cancelled in both 2020 and 2021, so the 2022 version was eagerly anticipated and must have come as a welcome introduction to normality for many. I journeyed from my home to Farringdon in the heart of Clerkenwell, got off the train noticing that a number of people were photographing the station. Odd? Yes, but not only was Tuesday, the first day of the CDW, but it was also the opening of the first stage of the Elizabeth line, the new ‘tube’ line that will cut right across London, linking the town of Reading some 42 miles outside London to the west and Brentwood and Shenfield to the east. So, I had to take a diversion down the new escalators, to check out the superb new tunnels …