News - Stories for 25th November 2009

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Lazarides tear it up at the opening of the Dean Street Townhouse

25th November 2009
On Tuesday afternoon, a long boozy lunch was well attended by Lazarides artists in honour of the launch of the Soho’s newest and finest hotel, the Dean Street Townhouse. Curated by our very own Jonathan Yeo and Francesca Gavin, the hotel’s dining room and breakfast nook house a permanent collection of artwork which includes a cross-section of 70 odd artists namely the YBA’s and the Outsiders bunch. Works by Keith Tyson, Tracey Emin and Peter Blake intermix with originals from Laz artists Jamie Hewlett, Lucy McLauchlan, 3D, Stanley Donwood, Blu, Polly Morgan, Antony Micallef, not to mention the curator himself, whose pornographic falling leaf wallpaper makes for a cozy breakfast setting. Artists were ever-present, intermingling with the likes of Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gordon Ramsey and Stephen Fry who dropped in to check out the new Soho House-owned establishment. The complimentary tabs were free flowing from midday until well after midnight as the artists relished in the opportunity to take advantage of the endless bar. And because the artists were paid with credit for bar tabs and hotel rooms for their creative contributions, there is a likely chance you’ll find one or two of them hanging around the bar if you head over there now…

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Lazarides tear it up at the opening of the Dean Street Townhouse