Under the alluring motto “nourish your creativity and purchase limited edition works of art during your weekly shop", the pop-up shop at Design Museum London challenges the meaning of “essential” during a global pandemic. The adjective “essential” has its roots in the Middle English “essencial,” Late Latin’s “essentialis”, and the Latin “essential”, meaning "the basic nature of a thing, its essence" and adding the Latin suffix “-alis” stands for "relating to." Although there’