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Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a shop - forgive me, retail space - that multitasks as a bar and restaurant. Truly hot off the press - the official opening isn't until May 24th - Chair is the brainchild of Andrew Cussins, the entrepreneur behind Sofa Workshop (hardly B+B Italia, I know), and his team have a collective CV spanning the RCA, Habitat and Aero. |
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Orwell's 1984 gets its opera world premiere at the Royal Opera. 7pm. Bow St, WC2. £4-50. 020 7304 4000. |
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Soprano super star Carolyn Sampson is at St George's Hanover Sq, W1. 7pm. £10+ |
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Flashback: Tears for Fears play @Hammersmith Apollo. 8pm. Queen Caroline St W6. £30. 0870 154 4040 or here. |
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| The Philadelphia Story open with Kevin Spacey @Old Vic. 7:30pm. The Cut, SE1. £15- 40. 0870 060 6628 or here. | ||||
Design-led is their middle name. Downstairs is the contemporary home furnishing store stocking up-and-coming YBDs - Amelia Coward (cabinet furniture and rug design and Chair's in-house designer), Sam Sweet (ceramics), Dominic Bromley (candles and ceramics) and Rowena Pinto (cushions) - while in the upstairs bar/restaurant each table is by a different designer, and they're all for sale. Brings a new meaning to "I liked it so much I bought the company". |
The Foundry open art/sound show Circle of Sound. 84 Gt Eastern Str, EC2. 7-11pm. |
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| Veteran Little Richard is at RFH. 7:30pm. South Bk SE1. £30. 0870 401 8181 or here. | ||||
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The menu is the usual seasonal organic/hand-crafted fayre and apparently its core messages are about 'sustainability and fair trade'... hmmm. And if you get there in the next three weeks you'll be eating on virgin restaurant critic territory. So pull up a chair and decide for yourself. Chair,
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Sadler's Wells hosts Italian star troupe Cia Aterballetto. 7:30pm. Rosebery Av, EC1. £10. 0870 7333 900 or here. |
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Nitin Sawhney at Shepherds Bush Empire, W12. 7:30pm. £19. 0870 264 3333 or here. |
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| Last week of Bloody Sunday at Tricycle, V&A's Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back and of Albery's Hecuba with Vanessa Redgrave. | ||||
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