Archive for the ‘LDG addition’ Category
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Shoreditch Rooms brings 26 light airy bedrooms to Shoreditch House, featuring vintage twists within an urban setting. The rooms are spread across five floors, sharing their main entrance with Shoreditch House on Ebor Street. (more…)
Tags: Hotel, Shoreditch, Shoreditch House, Shoreditch Rooms, Soho House Group
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Monday, May 17th, 2010

After a visionary extension and sensitive restoration, the imposing Bethnal Green Town Hall in London’s East End is now open as Town Hall Hotel Apartments. (more…)
Tags: Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green Town Hall, Hotel, Rare Architects, Town Hall Hotel Apartments, Viajante
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Monday, April 19th, 2010

Celebrated Portuguese chef Nuno Mendes has opened Viajante – his new restaurant in the Grade II listed Bethnal Green Town Hall, one of East London’s most historic buildings. (more…)
Tags: Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green Town Hall, Nuno Mendes, Rare Architects, Town Hall Hotel, Viajante
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

SKITSCH is an Italian producer and retailer of contemporary design, which launched with aplomb in Milan in April 2009. Now they have opened a new 350-square-metre store on Brompton Road, in the heart of the Brompton Design District. (more…)
Tags: 5.5 Designers, Bertjan Pot, Brompton, Cristina Morozzi, Front, Giles Miller, Jean-Marie Massaud, Luca Nichetto, Maarten Baas, Marc Sadler, Marcel Wanders, Peter Marigold, Skitsch, Xavier Lust
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Caravan is a new restaurant, bar, and coffee roastery located on the popular Exmouth Market in London’s Clerkenwell. It is open seven days a week serving three menus – breakfast, all day, and brunch on the weekends. (more…)
Tags: bar, Caravan, Chris Ammermann, Clerkenwell, coffee roastery, Exmouth Market, Miles Kirby, Restaurant
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The Dock Kitchen is here to stay! Housed at Portobello Dock – the studio and showroom base for designer Tom Dixon – the restaurant was initially set up as a temporary intervention to make use of the old kitchen space. Its success since launching in September 2009 has now secured its permanent home. (more…)
Tags: Dock Kitchen, Ladbroke Grove, Portobello Dock, Stevie Parle, Tom Dixon
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Circus is now open – Covent Garden’s new restaurant, bar, and ‘entertainment experience’, the design of which has been created by Design Research Studio, headed up by British designer Tom Dixon. (more…)
Tags: Circus, Covent Garden, Design Research Studio, Endell Street, Nik Biok, Tom Dixon
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Friday, January 8th, 2010

Viet Hoa Cafe, the first Vietnamese restaurant to have opened in an area that is now dubbed London’s ‘Little Saigon,’ has undergone a total interior refit to distinguish itself from its shabbier culinary competitors on Kingsland Road. (more…)
Tags: Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, Viet Hoa Bar, Viet Hoa Cafe, Vonsung
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SHOP: THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE (SPITALFIELDS)
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Successful Brighton design store The Lollipop Shoppe has opened its first London outlet within Old Spitalfields Market, selling a diverse portfolio of products from watches to furniture and cushions to lighting. (more…)
Tags: Found Associates, Old Spitalfields Market, Spitalfields, The Lollipop Shoppe
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