Real People, Great Products, Amazing Service! We have the answers, insight, and product knowledge to help you make the right choice. Delva Davis Online Sales ManagerMake this my store See more services and hours Read more on our Facebook page.On All Dining Tables & Chairs >Editor’s Picks: 8 Best New Fragrances for Spring What to wear: If you're Mother of the Bride or Groom Editor's Picks: The best of the ss17 make-up collections Use this form to email a PDF copy of this catalogue page. Thank You for your request of Fundraising catalogues! Your fundraising catalogues will be delivered at the beginning of August. Meanwhile please don't hesitate to contact us via email.. Thank You for signing up for the "Modern Teaching Aids" newsletter! You will receive exclusive offers, news and advice direct to your inbox now that you have signed up.Everyone likes a love-in, especially one involving food, art and two industry giants. Yet London’s latest, featuring the multi-millionaire artist Damien Hirst and a certain London chef, only happened because of a spontaneous encounter three months ago.
“I was going past Scott’s and Damien was there, so I pulled in to say hi. He said: ‘I need a chef… for another Pharmacy’,” says chef and restaurateur Mark Hix, who is to be Hirst’s partner at Pharmacy 2, opening on February 23. It’s the second act for Hirst’s first restaurant, Pharmacy, which closed in 2003, only this time it will be inside his newish Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall. “I said: ‘Well, why don’t we do a partnership and do it properly?’ So that was it really… He’s been eating my food for years anyway, and I know what he likes to eat — simple stuff,” he continues. The pair have linked up before, Hix having commissioned Hirst when he was chef-director at Caprice Holdings and later at his Soho restaurant. Then, in typically casual Hix style, he texted Hirst asking him to do something for Tramshed, his Shoreditch steak and chicken restaurant, in 2012. The result was Cock & Bull, an arresting, gargantuan installation of a cow and cockerel floating in a formaldehyde tank, which he describes as “certainly the biggest Hirst piece in a restaurant”.
“Pharmacy 2 combines two of my greatest passions: art and food,” says Hirst of the new project. “I’ve always loved Mark as a chef and his approach to food, so it’s great we’re working together on this.” Their alliance began eons ago when they and various other YBAs, including Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin, were living nearby in the East End. “I’ve known Damien a long time,” says Hix. “I got to know a lot of the artists because many of them lived nearby. At the time I had Rivington Grill, where we used to hang out, so over a period of time we got to know the crazy people,” he laughs. Pharmacy 2 is 10 minutes’ walk from Vauxhall Tube in quiet Newport Street. Walking upstairs from the calm white oasis of the exhibition space, the restaurant suddenly materialises like a thwack in the face. At Pharmacy 1 Hirst created what many felt at the time to be a artistic rendition of an actual chemist’s shop; here it feels more like some madcap, vaguely hallucinogenic art space in which one can also eat — perhaps more fitting for 2016’s foodie-experience-obsessed Instagram generation.
There are five turquoise-purplish renditions of Hirst’s famous Kaleidoscope Butterflies, shelves of neatly aligned pill packets, a bar stuffed with surgical kit, plus pills everywhere. 2016: Sixteen foodie highlights When trains whoosh past on the adjacent line, flutters of red and blue light drift through the stained-glass windows. Most absorbing is the cabinet lined with various “normal” tinctures taken by the artist during his lifetime, including Bonjela, Diazepam, mouthwash and — oh, the irony — gastro-resistant tablets that won’t break down in the stomach. It seems fitting that Hix, known for his simple approach to British cooking, should be the chef chosen to temper all this visual stimulation. I am struck by the delicious straightforwardness of the dishes I try — calming and comforting against the wild décor. There’s a Hix Soho staple dish of crushed potato and black pudding, a pot of polenta with a cracked egg and shaved truffle and, for brunch, an inspired Moroccan-like thing called Brik a l’Oeuf — like a soft, light, crispy pancake with an oozing egg inside and a blob of rose harissa.
“It’s not going to be completely British. The ingredients obviously will be. We’ll do some classics and it’ll be a weekly-changing menu,” says Hix, emphasising that the food will vary depending on his mood. “I operate a bit like that. I work a bit like an artist in that sense — what’s a good idea one minute is not necessarily a good idea the following day.” Hix won’t be cooking here, though, “because if you’re stuck in the kitchen you don’t see what’s on the customer’s table”. Instead he is CEO and creative director, designating day-to-day cooking decisions to group head chef Kevin Gratton. But what of the challenge of setting up a new restaurant in Vauxhall, where the only considerable foodie draw is Jackson Boxer’s Brunswick House Café the other side of Vauxhall Cross gyratory? “It’s sort of good and bad… There’s not a lot eating-wise, which is good, because it means that the locals who live here and also the businesses will have somewhere to eat, as it’s very accessible price-wise.
You can come to the bar for a quick drink or, if you’ve been to the gallery, for a snack or more.” According to general manager Davina Sasha there are currently more than 1000 people passing through the gallery weekly, and Hix also reminds me that Hirst has a long history in south London: he studied at Goldsmiths in New Cross, had a studio in Peckham and originally used this building as a studio. Hix mentions the area’s “thriving artistic community” with nearby galleries and Tate Britain, and says his friend’s hope “is that people will visit an area of London they may not otherwise have experienced”. Let’s see if this collaboration can jolt this part of SE11 into action. Follow Going Out on Facebook and on Twitter @ESgoingoutBuilt in Post Boxes for Walls They are available in various shapes, styles and colour combinations.All of the telescopic interiors, are produced in heavy gauge, galvanised steel sheet, and are adjustable, each one is also suppled with a spare set of keys.
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