A week at the knees

It's Clerkenwell Design Week which means that all the (innumerable) design studios in the area are open and showing off their best products and ideas.  The streets are buzzing with trendy visitors and the pubs are having a great time.  A lot of the studios are Italian and Spanish and a lot of the people strolling around are Italian and Spanish as well.

All the ancient buildings of Clerkenwell are hosting events.  The 14th century Charterhouse, which you can just glimpse at the back left of the image, has stalls around its cloisters and in the gardens.

The square outside (which is thought to have been a 1348 Black Death mass burial ground) has this intriguing sculpture.  It looks as if the façade of one of the Georgian houses behind has detached and slumped into an arch over a path.  The information board says that the artist Alex Chinneck's "rippling building" is made with 4.6 tonnes of re-used steel, 7000 bricks and bespoke, bending windows, cornicing, pipework and door.