For the second year running, the V&A museum and its supporters have used London Design Festival (and perhaps the inevitable few too many glasses of bubbly that surrounds it) to gather some funds for the innovatively named 'Design Fund to Benefit the V&A'.

The little extra dosh is set aside to enable the museum to purchase stand out examples of contemporary design—or, in other words, some very attractive, if obscenely expensive, bits of furniture— acquiring the design icons of the future, if you will. Amongst their haul this year was this worryingly delicate 'SOFA_XXXX' by Yuya Ushida that is, in fact, an expandable and contractable seating solution for cramped living conditions. Also on display was the organic form of Dutch designer Joris Laaumann's 'Bone Chaise' complete with the (almost more interesting) wooden cast for the chair.