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London Design Festival 2010: Established & Sons
London-based Established & Sons is putting their designers to work. Behind the bar. The company, hosting festival-goers in their hometown with a series of three events this year, will inhabit a public house for one of those events. Established & Sons will re-decorate The Wenlock Arms, "the renowned London Public House" right across the street from the showroom, with the company's own furniture. But best of all, during Happy Hours, designers will be serving up the drinks. Here's hoping Konstantin Grcic doles out a mean pour.Additionally, with Established & Sons LIMITED, the company presents "Design Against the Clock," a series of performances in which London design figures, including artist Richard Woods and sculptor Gavin Turk, will work onsite to create works reflective of their practice. The finished pieces will be exhibited on-site, where there will also be a Design Cafe and Gestalten bookstore.
And if you can stumble over after hitting the pub across the street, the Established & Sons showroom will also be open for perusing, with an installation of their collections, including pieces introduced in April in Milan for the new Estd series.
Established & Sons Showroom: 5-7 Wenlock Road, London 10.00 - 18.00, September 20-22 9.30 - 16.30, September 23 9.30 - 17.30, September 24-26
The Established & Sons Pub: The Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London 12.00 - Midnight (except Thursday until 16.30), September 20-26
Established & Sons LIMITED: 2-3 Duke Street St James, London 10.00 to 18.00, September 20-26 Drinks with the designer: 18.00-20.00, September 20-26
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Anyhows maybe the designers will install a bit of bleach into the incredibly smelly toilets and there is no way they can be a surly as some of the current teenage serving staff.
If you can't do anything to save the pub, at least have the decency not to insult it on its deathbed.
Established and Sons are an amazing company and will treat the pub with the utmost respect, I can imagine that it will look fantastic and can't wait to see the final result.
Its last breath, perhaps like our own, in some rainbow room in a hospice, coming round through the morphine to find that for all its hard work over many years, it has been turned into a design showroom. FFS, it gasps, then death.
It's an unnecessary slap in the face for the pub and its locals and regulars and certainly less than sensitive by E&Sons if they knew the pub was closing. The pub will be sorely missed, the design furniture may end up bearing the brunt of that upset.
That said, regulars of the pub know when the design pub is open, they're free to visit, air their views, hire a jazz band in, comment upon the redecoration, perhaps rearrange it a little. Shout NO PASARAN very loudly and so on.
We haven't yet been designed and accessorised into complete submission. Or have we?
THE WENLOCK FOREVER!