financial times - The Collect craft fair 2024: from the surreal to the ephemeral

More than 400 makers display their creations in wood, ceramic, silver and more at Somerset House in London

Returning next weekend for its 20th edition in London’s Somerset House, the contemporary craft and design fair Collect this year provides a platform for more than 400 artists and makers whose work spans sculpture, decorative art, furniture and jewellery.

‘A Window to the Past’ collection by Yanxiong Lin, at Charles Burnand

Artist and furniture designer Lin Yanxiong makes his European debut with Charles Burnand Gallery, presenting sculptural pieces from his “A Window to the Past” collection. A black cabinet and table — made using xuan (rice) paper, steel, wood and natural urushi lacquer — aim to become “poetic vehicles”, he says, that transport the viewer to other worlds, playing with notions of the real and imaginary.