Picture Gallery: iconic items at the Design Museum
A new collection has been created to reveal intriguing stories behind some of the most everyday objects.
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Picture Gallery: weird & wonderful jewellery exhibition
From eyelash extensions that are as long as your face, to rings that look like blisters: the new jewellery exhibition at the Design Museum.
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Objects representing life in 2012 buried under capital's Design Museum
An iPhone, Olympic torch and a tin of sardines were among the design gems picked to represent life in 2012 in a time capsule buried under the new Design Museum.
The capsule, marked not to be opened until 2112, commemorates the beginning of building work at the site at the former Commonwealth Institute on Kensington High Street, west London.
London mayor Boris Johnson, architect Sir Norman Foster and designer Sir Paul Smith were among those invited to nominate an object to be put into the capsule. Items also included a 2012 bottle of Burgundy, a 2p stamp, an image of Battersea Power Station and a European Union flag.
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