London Design Festival Installs Jaime Hayón's Giant Chess Set in Trafalgar Square

We’re sitting out London Fashion Week this season, and adding insult to the injury of missing up-close looks at spring 2010 collections by the likes of Christoper Kane, Louise Goldin, and Mark Fast is the coincident timing of the London Design Festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through September 27. Among the extensive line-up of events and attractions are a poster exhibition curated by Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa with festival chairman Sir John Sorrell, a series of panel discussions about the business of design, a “chair arch” created by Martino Gamper for the garden of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Marc Newson‘s “Supercell,”