Artist Martin Creed, who was handed his Turner Prize award by Director Gollum Arms as long ago as 2001, is reworking the Gallery restaurant at Sketch in celebration of its tenth anniversary. He’s the first in a series of artists invited to rework the room.

How will the man, whose gig is about not adding to a cluttered world (to paraphrase), translate his ideas into a functioning restaurant? Every item of furniture, cutlery, crockery and glassware is to be individual, with pieces coming from Carl Hansen, Ligne Roset, Martino Gamper and – crikey – Versace. In the absence of press shots there’s only a  floor plan to judge just now.

Sketch’s art curator Victoria Brooks has described this as looking like ‘a Missoni sweater with all the different colours. There’s a very vibrant basis for it with all the different colours and materials but, of course, we’ll make sure it doesn’t look like a flea-market.’

So, there we have it, it’s not going to look like a flea market.  Martin Creed at Sketch opens on 01 March for 18 months.

Yard sale!

In Britain piling your old crap up outside your house and shamelessly selling it just isn’t very us. You’re expected to go to a car boot sale for that. So I’ve always somewhat envied the American tradition of the yard sale. It’s not quite like a jumble sale, because it’s less diluted, generally being the […]

Cups

Need is too strong a word, but I need new cups-and-saucers so that I can be more delightful when giving friends a cup of tea. Here are the pictures that have led me to such a conclusion: Straight from My Friend’s own kitchen cupboards, a stack of mint green Deco cups with the best handles. […]

Empty estate

I’m always fascinated with estates awaiting demolition – and in London you can see a surprising amount of them. I love how the missing windows or even walls let you see each identical kitchen or living room, each differently decorated, cross-sectioned like a doll’s house. Home Sweet Home is a photographic exhibition about the Ferrier Estate in south […]

My desk: Tabitha Teuma

In today’s Designers’ Desks special, we asked editor Tabitha Teuma of the hip, handbag-sized and two-issues-old Midcentury magazine to show us where she works… Where is your desk from?  My desk is also the dining table in my house. It’s a teak G-plan one that I found at Crystal Palace Antiques about six years ago. I […]