In recent years, the ubiquity of design events and festivals have been met with quiet grumbling from some members of the design industry, criticising the inevitable focus on chairs and the more exhibition friendly facets of design.

It is, perhaps, this tension that design duo Nendo chose to play when commission to produce a piece in the glorious surroundings of the V&A for London Design Festival 2012. Entitled "Mimicry Chairs," the installation spans the length and breadth of the museum, with these strange, fragile and ethereal (completely non-functioning) archetypal chairs, sprouting up everywhere.

The ghost-like objects—crawling up stairs, suspended from ceilings, swarming in gallery spaces—reflecting the museums interior, take on the characteristics of their surroundings—arranging themselves like the regimented paintings on the walls to give just one example.