All that racing around the city to see the latest launches during the London Design Festival is bound to be thirsty work, so in response, the lovely Gallery Libby Sellers will be setting up ‘L Bar’, outside the Andaz Hotel.

The pop-­up bar will be located outside the hotel’s Liverpool Street entrance for five days during the festival.

Faced with the challenge of commissioning a design for the bar in a matter of days then overseeing its physical manifestation in a couple of weeks, they needed a crack team and having previously designed the Royal College of Art’s Artbar, Markus Bergström and Joe Nunn of Glass Hill were called in.

Bergström and Nunn met while students on the Royal College of Art’s Design Products MA degree course, and founded Glass Hill this year to collaborate on architecture, interiors, furniture and products for a variety of institutions, companies and private clients.

In this short period, their sensitive approach to materials and the built environment has led them to produce interiors for Woodfinch Rare Books, exhibition and furniture for auction house Phillips de Pury and product design for the ICA London.

For Sellers, the L Bar is an extension of her mission statement to nurture and support design talent while creating an eloquent dialogue with her gallery’s concurrent exhibition inside Andaz hotel - the London debut of the digital work Branches by Simon Heijdens.

With some tens of thousands of pedestrians passing the site on a daily basis, the wooden, vaulted ‘L Bar’ looks set to quench the thirsts of both the local commuter and design community alike.

The L Bar will open from the 21st to the 25th of September from 5pm – 8pm