Es Devlin: Other Worlds at the Design Museum, London

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• Es Devlin's retrospective Other Worlds will be held at the Design Museum in London from 2 October 2026 to 4 April 2027.
• Devlin has created stages for Beyoncé, Adele, U2, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd, as well as Olympic ceremonies and theatre productions.
• The exhibition reconstructs Devlin's London studio with desk, lamps, pencils, colours, photographs and notebooks, and includes a film of her hands opening family albums and sketchbooks.
• A moving wall introduces visitors to subsequent rooms, making the entrance a theatrical threshold.
• The show features models, drawings, annotated texts and preparatory materials from theatre, opera, concerts, fashion and public ceremonies, including projects like The Lehman Trilogy and Chimerica.
• White models introduce an almost archaeological distance, with miniature sets preserving stage machinery but losing live performance energy.
• The final room hosts Infinite Library, a rotating library of about two thousand books selected by Devlin, arranged chromatically as architectural material.
• The retrospective highlights collaboration while focusing on Devlin's authorship, often leaving technicians, engineers, builders, programmers and performers in the background.