Le repertoire de la cuisine2/20/2023 “He’s created a snake of greenery at the front of the building that is just magical – it bursts into bloom twice a year.” “He won the Chelsea Flower Show 2014 but he’s a real artist, gardening is an artform,” Le Gaillard says at a hundred miles an hour. Stag Chair Black Plywood Right, 2007, by Rick Owens (left) and Ballerina Lamp, 2019, by Atelier Van Lieshout © Tom Jamiesonįrom here we survey an oasis, what will become a garden kitchen and a reception for the photographic studio the verdant landscaping is a form of creative expression by the London-based garden designer Luciano Giubbilei. The new Yaawa Round Table by David Adjaye © Tom Jamieson “We want people to engage and to spend time here.” We live in a time where we all need to invest way more in emotion,” Le Gaillard explains as we peer over an original iron balustrade into the white volume below. “We want to change the way contemporary galleries operate – the model where you just come visit and then leave is outdated, it’s restrictive, and more often than not just transactional. That idea of engaging the senses comes to life as we step onto a mezzanine floor overlooking the performance room where the walls have been acoustically prepared for music, and the stage set for an array of gatherings, from supper clubs to workshops, film screenings, installations, theatre happenings and unplugged music events. “It will be a place that will enchant your senses,” he says. The centrepiece of the 60-seat restaurant, a gigantic chandelier, is an expression of Nacho Carbonell’s tactile and textural approach to sculpture. “He came in here and just wanted to be part of what we are creating,” he says with a Gallic drawl. “This is painting without any agenda other than the deeper one of the pleasure, consolation and sense of possibility of art itself.” Le Gaillard is excited about Le Brun’s contribution, citing Rothko at the Four Seasons. “It enabled me to develop on really big-scale themes and motifs from work recently exhibited in London and Shenzhen,” he says of the pieces. Here, the cuisine will be conjured by chef Emanuele Pollini, the ambience by De Cotiis and the excitement by four enormous site-specific artworks by the ex-president of the Royal Academy of Arts Christopher Le Brun, who says the theme will riff on the classic repertoire of painting – colour, light and time. Inside, we sidestep scaffolding and men pounding plasterboard before reaching the building’s original entrance, the magnificent original architecture preserved as it is transformed into a restaurant. It will be a place to explore creativity in all its forms We will dance the tango, listen to jazz, wander the landscaped gardens. . . Grade II-listed Ladbroke Hall in Notting Hill © Tom Jamieson Adjaye will debut new furniture in a solo show when Ladbroke Hall opens in the spring, while a second opening show – introducing a new department at the gallery and its expansion into vintage works – will also display pieces by the late Brazilian architect José Zanine Caldas. Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye has been overseeing the metamorphosis on the gallery side of the building, while Italian architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis, along with French designer-artist Michèle Lamy, have taken care of its hospitality zone. The childhood friends bought the property four years ago and initiated building work that will transform it into their London flagship – a major new hub for the arts, which will open in spring 2023 at a cost of around £30mn.īut the pair have not taken this journey alone, having pulled together a band of artists and designers to help conceive their creative utopia. “Anyone who wants to stretch artistic expression will be welcome here.” This is Le Gaillard and co-founder Julien Lombrail’s magnum opus. “We’re building a community for creatives and locals,” he continues. Hard hat in hand, he gestures towards the entrance of Ladbroke Hall, the 1903 Grade II-listed building in London’s Notting Hill that was originally home to the Sunbeam Talbot Motor Company. “It’s the perfect playground,” Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s Loïc Le Gaillard bellows over the clamour of hammer and drill.
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