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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
Comments
I will put these dates in my calendar of things to do- nice shot of the beer pumps by the way- Grant
That is such a disgrace... leave our London alone and take your channel four ideas somewhere else.
The Wenlock Arms is one of the oldest, most traditional, real pubs in London. I have been going there for over ten years (and please note - I am no 'old man') and I love it for its authenticity and atmosphere. I hate to think of it being despoiled by property developers who think that 're-decorating' a pub means turning it into a doctor's waiting room.. I am devastated that it is closing down and will no longer be the beloved regular pub in which I and my friends have shared so many happy memories.
The Wenlock Arms does not need redecorating, it's perfect as it is. Please don't disrespect or desecrate the best pub in London.
THE WENLOCK FOREVER!
Hmm, none too many positive comments here. Given that the said pub is being sold off, it's none too surprising that a pop-up makeover in its final days isn't being greeted with particular enthusiasm.
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?
That's really sad. This is such a classic old pub, and is much loved just as it is. Poor show.
My goodness - you guys like to complain!
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.
Disgraceful. Shame on you designers.
Christ Jo, you don't understand at all do you? This pub has been there since 18 fucking 36. It is part of London's heritage. The people planning to demolish it are criminals.
If you can't do anything to save the pub, at least have the decency not to insult it on its deathbed.
Gordon Bennett, the bleeding pub is shutting down anyway. Let the designers have a play before the bulldozers turn up and turn it into yuppie flats.
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.