For the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair, the British Council and the Design Museum will once again showcase the work of a new generation of UK-based designers in Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies, an exhibition at Paul Smith’s European headquarters in Milan from 18-23 April 2007.

The five designers in the exhibition - &made, Nadine Jarvis, Peter Marigold, Eelko Moorer and Hiroko Shiratori - have, in the early stages of their careers, demonstrated rare conceptual maturity and ambition, combined with outstanding fluency in the function and design of objects.

Great Brits: Ingenious Therapies explores the twin imperatives of ingenious function and therapeutic action. Each of the designs in the exhibition are brilliantly contrived and crafted but at the same time they address a particular human emotion or need - fear, fiction, fantasy; escape; stasis and calm; perpetuity - all of which express a very contemporary take on the need for objects to perform a function.