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The British capital provided an uncharacteristically sunny backdrop for last week’s 15th annual London Design Festival, the citywide event highlighting handsome innovations and fresh-to-market ideas. Stealing the foreground this year was an unusually strong cast of global creators who infiltrated the U.K. talent show in myriad, unmissable ways. Shanghai-based Stellar Works dyed its bentwood chairs with indigo; Almira Sadar put Slovenian crochet needles to work on extra-nubbly baskets and throws; and Provençal Cecile Daladier scarred the surfaces of her flower pots with dried herbs—harvested just outside her studio…