On the Square is a new project by London-based designer Rio Kobayashi, who invited his design community to stage a takeover of an abandoned Victorian townhouse in London’s De Beauvoir Square.
'The house had been abandoned for few years, and so it was perfect occasion to cheer it up!' says Kobayashi. Collaboration has been at the core of the Austrian-Japanese designer’s work, as he demonstrated with a solo exhibition during London Design Festival 2023 presenting a body of work created in collaboration with designer friends and artisans. For this takeover, he gathered multidisciplinary creatives to temporarily furnish the house to give life to the abandoned building.
