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Clerkenwell is home to over 60 showrooms, a multitude of architectural and creative practices. This cultural hub is the perfect location to host an international festival that celebrates all disciplines of design.

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With over 150 events, a series of pop up exhibitions, installations, talks, performances, music and workshops, the festival is a showcase of cutting edge design from some of the biggest names in the industry. This year the design community flocked to Clerkenwell with over 24000 registered to attend!

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The showrooms of Clerkenwell threw open their doors to host an exciting programme of talks, debates and workshops. Topics covered the pressing issues in design from industry leaders and thinkers.

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Clerkenwell is filled with historic venues and architecture making it an ideal location to exhibit design in a new and exciting way. As well as returning to the Farmiloe Building CDW ventured underground to the House of Detention. This Victorian prison hosted an exhibition of emerging talents and creative installations. Click here to view imagesexhibitions-image 1

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Register Now!

Register now for 2012's show to make sure you're up-to-date with all our latest and most exciting news. We're getting very excited.......
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Marie Dessuant

The talented Marie Dessuant will be bringing her current collection as well as some fantastic new pieces to The House of Detention for CDW 2012....
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Jaguar Returns

Following on from the success of Clerkenwell Design Week 2011, we are proud to announce the return of Jaguar as our headline sponsors for 2012