LEGO Greenhouse Debuts: London Design Festival 2011

The 2011 London Design Festival is in full swing and there no doubt the official LEGO Greenhouse is one of the most talked about and popular attractions at this year’s event.  Award-winning designer Sebastian Bergne was commissioned by LEGO to create the public installation using everyone’s favorite toy bricks.

Bergne worked closely with the LEGO Build and Technical Teams and Covent Garden to bring the project to fruition, with the final design built and installed by Duncan Titmarsh, the UK’s only LEGO Certified Professional. For Sebastian Bergne participation in the project brought a childhood fantasy to life.

“It’s been a pleasure to be involved with this project for LEGO UK and Covent Garden. What instinctively appealed to me, was that I would finally have the chance to live out a childhood dream and build something huge and usable out of LEGO bricks.”

The plan was to juxtapose a natural, growing environment against an ‘almost digital, mass-produced LEGO structure’, and in the process make you look at LEGO bricks in a new way.  The plants and vegetables thriving in the the tiny LEGO habitat were furnished by Indoor Garden Design and the lighting by LED Tape.

The LEGO Greenhouse will be exhibiting in the North East Piazza, Covent Garden until the 25th September 2011, as part of the London Design Festival 2011. Admission is free.

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