CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK 2014

The design hub that is Clerkenwell is home to more creative businesses and architects per square mile than anywhere else on the planet. It makes sense then that it should showcase leading UK and international brands.

Having won Best Live Event 2013 at the AEO Awards, Best Festival and Best Cultural Event at the UK Event Awards 2012, CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK is preparing for its fifth year this May 20th as the UK’s leading independent design festival with an array of showroom events, pop-up exhibitions, special installations, talks, discussions, and debates in hope of topping last year’s impressive 50,000 attendees.

Previous programme contributors have included many internationally renowned creatives such as: Barber Osgerby, Giulio Cappellini, PearsonLloyd, Patricia Urquiola, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Benjamin Hubert, Ross Lovegrove, Patrizia Moroso, Martin Ballendat, Linda Morey Smith, Tom Dyckhoff, Rosita Missoni, Jaime Hayón, Shaun Clarkson, Zaha Hadid, Ab Rogers, and Sam Jacobs.

If you’d like to discuss new products, raise industry issues, and network with fellow design professionals then scroll through the hundreds of events on the 2014 programme and register for free here.

We are delighted to offer CDW registered guests 50% off all breakfasts, including our famous “City Boy Breakfast” featuring a pint Titanic Stout and a Smithfield Market sourced hearty full english.

Join us for lunch and enjoy a complimentary glass of our very own and very unique Jake’s Orchard Sparkling Cider, any soft drink, tea or coffee.

Or if you prefer to dine al fresco choose our new take away carvery sandwich for just £5!

It’s seems like it will be a sunny one this year so bring your sunnies, and of course your appetite!

X The Fox

Tuesday 20th- Thursday 22nd May
10 am – 9pm across Clerkenwell, EC1

The Fox and Anchor *****

We love this ale lovers honest account of his visit to The Fox and Anchor in 2010 accompanied by a beautifully written synopsis of the sites history.

Tales of ales and more...

The Fox & Anchor (1898) and its gargoyles beckon you to enter: the intricacies of this Art Nouveau building compel the eye to investigate.  Tucked off a slight side street off of Smithfield’s Victorian meat market, this pub now draws more on the business folk who toil away around the market, rather than the historic clientele of the butchers themselves.  However, a series of thoughtful black and white portraits of the local meat porters and butchers throughout the interior pay homage to the living history of the market, one of the city’s oldest and still surviving markets.  For lover’s of Art Nouveau style pubs, in particular The Blackfriar’s Pub, this is another must see.

Now, what exactly is the story behind the fox and the anchor? Well, thankfully they have used the age old medium of beer coasters to tell the tale of one particularly intrepid fox. And this…

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The Historic Fox & Anchor

People often ask us about the history of The Fox & Anchor so we did a little homework…

The Fox and Anchor as you know it today replaced the previous long-lived hostelry of the same name in 1897. The pub has been so named since 1756 and was previously known as the Rose and Crown and the Blue Anchor. Its seventeenth-century predecessor was deemed worthy of recording as one of the last reminders of the street’s antiquity before its demolition in 1897. 

Fox and Anchor before 1897’s demolition.

Its polychromatic facade in Doulton’s Carraraware is an exuberant example of the work of W. J. Neatby, the designer, painter and ceramic modeller best-known for his Harrods Food Hall of 1902. With the exception of Neatby’s façade, the building was designed by Latham A. Withall, a City architect experienced with pubs; the contractors were W. H. Lascelles & Co., specialists in shopfitting. 

Details of Doulton’s Carraraware by W. J. Neatby, 1897–8, on upper façade. Photo taken 2006.

At the time of the rebuilding the pub was sub-let by the brewers Meux & Co. to the victuallers Roberts Brothers, who also ran a cigar-store next door at No. 117. During their tenure an opening was made between the two premises to create an extensive first-floor dining-room.

Neatby’s front dates from his period as head of Doulton’s architectural decoration department, when he was developing the art possibilities of Carraraware. The façade exhibits a carefree yet disciplined balance of Queen Anne and Tudor elements, set off by two projecting beasts, plentiful relief sculpture and a charmingly painted gable.

Details of Doulton’s Carraraware by W. J. Neatby, 1897–8, on entrance. Photo taken 2006

The interior was again refurbished in 1992 and fell into our lucky hands in 2007 as the beginning of 

The Cunning Plan Pub Company

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If you’d like more information, we love this ale lovers account of his visit to ‘The Fox’ in 2010 accompanied by a beautifully written synopsis of the sites history.

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REF: Thanks to the British History Online for the above information.

Not just a pub, but also an inn. Photographed: St Bart’s Superior Room in 2007

Not just a pub, but also an inn. Photographed: Smithfield Superior Room, featuring a classic free standing bath tub, 2007

Not just a pub, but also an inn. Photographed: The Market Suite, featuring a classic copper free standing bath tub, 2007

 

 

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