Goyard branches out its highly sought after luxury line of goods to the UK via a new store opening this Summer in London. The London store will now sit prominently against a map of luxury cities including Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beverly Hills, and others. The Goyard brand is considered the icon in luxury and to many, as it’s presence has remained niche and highly elusive.

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects have designed and built a new storage facility to house up to 76 bicycles in Bermondsey, London. The structure is part of the redevelopment of Bermondsey Square. Bikes will be stored using a double decker system devised by Josta. (via Dezeen).

Check the interior system after the jump.

The Brit Insurance Design Awards have opened at London’s Design Museum. Included are some obvious bits – like Shepard Fairey’s Obama portrait – and a few surprises. One inclusion that really excites are the hand built wooden radios by Singgih S. Karano. Category winners are officially announced in two weeks, with the prizes handed out on March 18, 2009. (Via Creative Review).

Hand built wooden radios after the jump.

Four years after opening their first store in London, Maison Martin Margiela moves across the street into new digs at 22 Bruton Street. Like all Margiela shops, the space itself becomes part of the display as care is taken in respecting the building’s original form and turning it into a “found object.” “The atmosphere of this shop, adapted and decorated by Maison Martin Margiela, also draws on the prolific and iconographic use of whites – of furniture, objects, fabrics and textures, old and new – typical of the spirit of the Maison Martin Margiela’s Paris.”

Selectism Columnist, Kyle Hackett, turns us onto Hackett of London’s Bespoke Selvedge Denim in his continuing hunt for denim. Details are the charmer on these slim fit jeans made from 13.5oz selvedge – the back pocket has a nice red stitched “H” while the selvedge end shows through on the front coin pocket. Thanks for the heads up, Kyle.

More views of the Hackett of London Bespoke Selvedge Denim after the jump.

A good exhibition isn’t just about the objects and analysis. There is a heavy degree of design savvy required to make things hum. It’s Nice That hips us to London’s Bibliotheque Design, the firm that devised the label system for the V&A’s Cold War Modern. Bibliotheque has recently updated their website, which now includes a section devoted to their portion of the project. From both a museological and design point of view, “it’s nice that” they’ve taken the time to explain their steps and rational.

A few more examples of Bibliotheque’s work for the V&A follows.

R29 reports in on the opening of the first Monocle Shop in London. “ The Monocle Shop was inspired by readers’ overwhelming response to the magazine’s bespoke design, product, and lifestyle partnerships with brands like Comme des Garçons, Porter, Artek, Liberty UK, and Tretorn, to name a few.” Be sure to check out the new space when

The Tate Modern’s Rothko exhibition opened on September 26. Revolving around Rothko’s later works, and his works in series, the show explores his strategies of repetition and variations on single themes. Complementing the on-site is a well conceived web portion complete with gallery talks and interviews with the curators. The best of this comes in the sense of process gleaned from the interview. A great thing when museums unveil the curtain and join the visitor in the excitement of putting things together.

Rothko is open until February 1, 2009.

The casual movement in London gets a restart with the opening of the first stand alone store from Stone Island. The 450 sq/ft store opened in London’s Covent Gardens. “The store incorporates custom made design with clean contemporary and functional detail. Listed architectural elements are fused with the modern high octane design working in perfect synergy with the garments displayed….The stores concept is based on an identity project called ‘Item / Unit’ and has been invented, designed and engineered by Marc Bhure, owner of the German design company Zeichenweg TM, which gives total layout flexibility.”

Taschen expands their empire and recently opened their new London flagship store. Designed just like all their other stores by superstar designer Philippe Starck, the store of course turned out pretty nice and houses a book store and gallery.

“TASCHEN is delighted to announce the opening of its London store today, 6 October 2008. Located on the newly developed Duke of York Square, just off the Kings Road, right next to the new Saatchi Gallery, the store will stock the entire range of TASCHEN books covering art, photography, architecture, film, lifestyle, travel, pop culture and sex.  The London store follows the huge success of TASCHEN’s five stores around the world, in Paris, Cologne, New York, Beverly Hills and Hollywood.” Via Dezeen.

Have a further look at the store after the jump.