Dining Room, Sketch by artist Martin Creed

I have been to the eclectic Sketch bar and restaurant on W1’s Conduit Street several times before, and if I mention the Noe Duchaufour Laurance designed white capsule pods serving as toilets, you probably know where I am talking about. (you can also see a previous post here of the launch at Sketch of a capsule hat collection by Noisette’s front-woman Shingai Shoniwa and milliner Katherine Elizabeth). 

Coinciding with Sketch’s tenth anniversary, Turner Prize artist Martin Creed has transformed their Gallery restaurant in the first of a new long-term programme of artist-designed interiors, blurring the lines between exhibition work, artwork and restaurant space. The flooring takes the form of a new artwork, named ‘Work No. 1347’, and consists of 96 different coloured marble creating a zig-zag pattern, echoed in the red and yellow paintings on the walls. ‘Work No. 1343’ is also a new work, translating as different pieces of cutlery and furniture; where no two objects are the same. This creates a real cacophony of art, colour and design; old against new, plastic against wood, and handcrafted against mass produced.