{"id":54982,"date":"2025-09-13T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=54982"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:00:21","slug":"secondary-function-alsolike-gallery-at-london-design-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/secondary-function-alsolike-gallery-at-london-design-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondary Function \u2014 Alsolike Gallery at London Design Festival 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist.webp\" data-lbwps-width=\"2194\" data-lbwps-height=\"2926\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-450x600.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-768x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-450x600.webp 450w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-356x475.webp 356w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-600x800.webp 600w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artist-scaled.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Poster for the Secondary Function exhibition<br>Source: alsolikelondon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/londondesignfestival.com\/activities\/secondary-function-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Secondary Function<\/a> draws attention to the ways in which function can challenge visual centrism, expand sensory and spatial perception, connect the viewer with their environment, and serve as an entry point for cultural inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36.webp\" data-lbwps-width=\"690\" data-lbwps-height=\"690\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36-600x600.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36.webp 690w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36-475x475.webp 475w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-08-31_12.32.36-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elena Esaulova&#8217;s work,<br>Source: alsolikelondon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Among the participants is jewellery designer Lena Esaulova, who will showcase several pieces from one of her brands, E2J. Lena is a member of The National Association of Jewellers and The Society of Jewellery Historians, runs the jewellery blog Lenaginarium, and develops several jewellery brands. E2J presents functional jewellery inspired by the aesthetics of the Victorian era, where technical functionality is seamlessly combined with elegance of form.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f.webp\" data-lbwps-width=\"1400\" data-lbwps-height=\"1400\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-600x600.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-475x475.webp 475w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71f839ffbddd68dd7aeb3c70fefc831f_c3813919-a4b4-4409-862f-4b0f3357113f.webp 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Poster for the Secondary Function exhibition<br>Source: alsolikelondon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Secondary Function opens on 15 September at Alsolike Gallery, 16 Chance Street, as part of London Design Festival 2025, and will run until 21 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<style>.featured-image img, .featured-image-mobile img {object-position: center 0%;}<\/style>\n<p>Alsolike Gallery presents the international group exhibition\u00a0Secondary Function, opening as part of London Design Festival 2025. The exhibition brings together contemporary artists, jewellers, independent designers, makers, and sculptors from around the world, exploring the vitality and multifaceted role of function in contemporary artistic discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"type_post":[],"column":[],"class_list":["post-54982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54982"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=54982"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=54982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}