Helene Steiner's beautiful wall-mounted laundry pods, Polyp, are one of the designs being shown at the DesignersBlock exhibition What Women Make from 23 - 26 September as part of the London Design Festival. The exhibition is the brainchild of Chauncey Zalkin, writer and brand strategist who founded the website GirlOnTheStreet.com back in 1999, and who now runs the network WhatWomenMake.com. 

What Women Make has an international line up of women artists, tapestriers, ceramicists and designers. It'll include new work from the Dutch fashion designer Pauline Van Dongen and look out for the remarkable punky kimonos by Japanese designer Natsuki Shigeta.

What Women Make sees Zalkin's online makers community moving into a less virtual space.  'I wanted to bring together women from around the world who offer not just great design, but bring outstanding thinking to their work,' she says. 

See also Adorn by the women's design collective Flock at the London Design Festival