TEN CRAVES IS OUR ONLINE SERIES THAT ROUNDS UP ALL THE BEST PRODUCT LAUNCHES AND MUST-KNOW FASHION HAPPENINGS WEEK IN, WEEK OUT.
BRIGITTA SPINOCCHIA FREUD celebrates upcoming ceramicists at DOVER STREET MARKET
Dover Street Market, a haven for beautiful collision, chaos and unique voices, teams up with London-based interior architect, designer and curator Brigitta Spinocchia Freud for Frieze London showcasing boundary pushing pieces.The installation titled Beyond a Vessel celebrates and encourages up and coming artists and innovation in contemporary ceramics. Laura Ford’s The Snoorkeler and The Seal standing at 55 cm is playful, eye-catching and evokes a sense of whimsy. Dominic Watson shows his humour with ceramic figures while Philippine D’Otreppe reimagines everyday items into ceramic masterpieces. Other featured artists including Mercedes Lucy, Steffany Tran and others showcase a broad spectrum of ideas while all sharing a complete devotion to exploring and breaking down the confines of the ceramic practice. Beyond a Vessel is running from today until November 15. Find more out here. Ara Lopez
PRADA MODE IS WATCHING YOU WATCH IT
The energy was high last night after Prada Mode’s private preview of the long awaited immersive installation The Audience by Berlin based team Elmgreen & Dragset. Prada Mode is a traveling event based private club that offers members an unforgettable and exclusive experience in contemporary culture. The Town Hall at Kings Cross has been transformed into a cinema with looped film featuring a painter and a writer trapped in endless conversation about their creative practice while five unsettling life-like sculptures were dispersed in the auditorium. Another work featured by the duo is The Conversation which perfectly mixed with The Audience. As the invited onlookers participated in the act of watching, the lines of viewing and being viewed started to blur, just like the playful duo intended. After that guests quickly found out that Prada Mode London sure knows how to party. DJ sets by MIMI XU, SBTRKT and Call Super had everyone in a good mood at the celebration of the opening of Prada Mode London. The thought provoking installation will be open from October 15 for invited guests and to the public from October 17 to 19. Find out more here. AL
RUST, RESILIENCE AND REIMAGINING With RICK OWENS FURNITURE
On Tuesday, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy unveiled a new contemporary furniture exhibition by Rick Owens Furniture at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery titled Rust Never Sleeps, taking its name from Neil Young’s iconic 1979 album. Inspiration struck the enigmatic duo with London’s brutalist architecture. The exhibition shows Owens and Lamy’s focus on recycled materials, raw pieces, craftsmanship, evolution and unruly imagination. Along with seating pieces and tables a featured piece titled the Antler Bed perfectly encapsulated all of these focuses. Last Thursday, Lamy, who also curated the exhibition, hosted an intimate dinner surrounded by furniture with beautiful food by award-winning Italian restaurant Pollini. To celebrate this boundary pushing exhibition Rick Owens Furniture and Atelier Van Lieshout hosted invited guests to a private viewing and then an energetic and bustling party with live DJ set from Alexis Taylor (HOT CHIP). This unique exhibition is now open to the public until February 2026. Discover the display here. AL
Craig Green Sparks Intrigue With Portable Chairs
Trust Craig Green to turn sitting down into a fashion statement. From today, Dover Street Market plays host to 12 exclusive portable chairs from the designer, each sculptural enough to double as performance art. Sleek wood, bold colourways and silhouettes that flirt somewhere between functional furniture and, well, something you’d blush to unpack at airport security (yes, the “chairs” look suspiciously like butt plugs). Part artwork, part utility, they capture Green’s instinct for turning the everyday into something charged and uncanny. Shop in-store at Dover Street Market, London now. AL
Sadie Coles and Lily McMenamy To Host A Final Frieze Send-Off
This Friday, London is set to sizzle under the neon spell of Frieze as The London Edition’s Basement shape-shifts into the city’s most irresistible hideaway and what promises to be the week’s most deliciously unruly send-off. Sadie Coles, doyenne of daring, will join forces with actress-model-muse Lily McMenamy to host the official Frieze afterparty for Gargle – Coles’ cult monthly series of readings, poetry and performance hosted this time around by McMenamy. Early on in the evening, Shola Von Reinhold, Nuar Alsadir, Hesse K and Adam Christensen will set tongues wagging (and minds spinning), as cocktails by Grey Goose Vodka and Grey Goose Altius flow, alongside cans of Uncommon Wine offering an evening of both elegance and excess. Then, a yet-to-be-revealed DJ will spin euphoric rhythms late into the morning, ensuring the dance floor pulses like a living artwork. Expect artists, curators and fashion creatures to unite in one glittering, unforgettable finale to Frieze London. Think of it as Frieze London’s glorious last gasp. Emily Phillips
Phoebe Philo Supports Peter Doig’s Serpentine Exhibition
Phoebe Philo returns to London not on the runway, but in the gallery. The designer sponsors House of Music, Peter Doig’s new Serpentine South exhibition, and the collaboration feels like a natural extension of her quiet affinity for the art world.
Doig reimagines the gallery as a place to pause and listen: mid-century furnishings scattered amongst recent paintings, a soundtrack drawn from his archive of vinyl and cassettes and rare analogue speakers salvaged from derelict cinemas. The works themselves hum with rhythm – musicians, dancers, moments of gathering – many rooted in his years spent in Trinidad, where sound-system culture shaped his vision.
Visitors are encouraged to sit, linger, even nap, letting the paintings and music unfold around them like a shared memory. On Sundays, Sound Service serves up live listening sessions with guests from Brian Eno to Linton Kwesi Johnson. The result is an exhibition that moves at its own tempo: part studio, part sound system, part living room. House of Music is available to visit at Serpentine South until February 8, 2026. Learn more here. EP
Julianknxx is using sight and sound to teach you a history lesson
Julianknxx is here to take you to church. Taking place at St Mary Le Strand, the Sierra Leonian artist has teamed up with 180 Studios to create a multi-channel film installation that explores various histories of displacement. Entitled Shifting/Spirit/Time, the display examines how ritual, and its repetition over time, encourages the diaspora to reflect on the journey of those who came before them. Kicking off with a choir performance on Tuesday, the artist and his collaborators, Tina Campt and Thabo, combined performance, improvisation and some powerhouse voices for an unforgettable opening. This is one that might take time to digest, but still worth sinking your teeth into. Discover the display here. Bella Koopman
The Bomb Factory Marks 10 Years With ‘Tomorrow’
The Bomb Factory blows out 10 candles this Frieze week with Tomorrow, a decade-defining exhibition at its Marylebone flagship. Since 2015, the artist-led foundation has been London’s scrappy engine for experimentation, and the anniversary show feels like a victory lap and a tease of what’s next. Heavyweights Mark Wallinger, John Hoyland, Rana Begum and Polly Morgan rub shoulders with a new guard – Okiki Akinfe, Marcus Leotaud, Bill Daggs – each piece pushing at the edges of what art can be. Opening night spills into live performances, proving once again that The Bomb Factory isn’t just a gallery, it’s a beating heart. Discover Tomorrow here. EP
Completedworks Serves Up Ceramics At Sessions Arts Club
Frieze London 2025 is alive with spectacle, and one of the most quietly dazzling collaborations of the week comes from Completedworks, Sessions Arts Club and artist Jonny Gent. Within Sessions’ atmospheric restaurant installation at the fair, sculptural interventions appear like apparitions – ceramic vases knotted with Completedworks’ signature bow forms, their surfaces glimmering with opalite stones that shift between spectral fragility and otherworldly shimmer.
Gent’s drawings and research feed directly into the space: an image of a tied apron – a tender gesture of domestic labour – blooms into monumental ceramics, transforming the everyday into the extraordinary. Meanwhile, custom-made lapis lazuli pins flash across the uniforms of Sessions’ team, pairing the raw depth of uncut stone with a contemporary design.
Recycled glass trays from Completedworks’ collection quietly anchor the dining experience, continuing the brand’s devotion to renewal and material memory. The result is part dining room, part dreamscape – an intimate, sculptural world unfolding at Frieze. EP
We dedicate this edition of Ten Craves to all the fab happening from this year’s edition of Frieze London running from October 15 to 19. Top image: photography courtesy of Julianknxx.