7/15/2023 0 Comments Artful lander![]() Today they represent over 90 artists in galleries around the world. Toklas has now been joined by the first London opening from Artfarm as the reopened Audley Public House with Mount Street Restaurant on its first floor and a couple of private dining rooms on the floors above.Īrtfarm is the name of the company founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, who originally opened the first Hauser & Wirth gallery in Switzerland in 1990. Matthew Slotover and his business partner Amanda Sharp who founded Frieze Art Fair spent several years plotting Toklas, their elegant restaurant just off The Strand, and he has gone on to open the newly restored Fort Road Hotel in Margate, Kent, whose walls boast works of art in many different media. Recently, these links became even stronger. On Monday evenings every month at L’Escargot we changed the works of art by different artists to enliven the quietest night of the week, and decorate the pale-green walls. I can remember as a restaurateur in London in the 1980s welcoming the Zwemmers who kept the art bookshop on Charing Cross Road and the directors of Thames & Hudson, the art book publishers, as frequent customers. The link between the art world and good food has always been close. At La Colombe d’Or in St-Paul de Vence in France there are paintings by Picasso, Chagall and Calder. There has always been a close link between restaurants and the art on their walls, with the latter often illuminating the restaurant’s history.Īt Kronenhalle restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland, there are several works by Chagall, Braque, Bonnard and Miro collected in the 1940s by the perspicacious restaurateur Gustav Zumsteg. A new establishment in London is almost more of an art gallery than a restaurant.
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