East London?s ?Vertical Community?: The Stratford
The Stratford hotel and its Allegra restaurant live inside a double-cantilevered 42-story building in East London.
East London’s ?vertical community,? The Stratford, has recently unveiled Allegra ? its newest restaurant, designed by Danish studio Space Copenhagen, and led by chef Patrick Powell, former sous chef at Chiltern Firehouse. Bespoke seating and tables ? made especially for the space ?sit side by side with statement pieces such as Space Copenhagen?s Loafer Chair by &Tradition, while natural stone flooring references historic courtyard configurations once found in the neighborhood.
The restaurant boasts art by Bridget Riley from the personal collection of owner Harry Handlesman, in a timely link to the current Riley retrospective at the Hayward Gallery on London’s Southbank in which the piece above is reproduced as a full-scale wall graphic.
Extensive glazing and planting inside provide a visual connection to the seventh? floor garden of the residential tower and the tactile tableware has been specially developed by British ceramicist Sue Pryke. “Allegra has a brighter and lighter composition than the core amenity spaces of the hotel, which ? on a similar note ? are soft and friendly, yet denser to the eye and to the touch,” say Space Copenhagen co-founders Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou. ?Allegra seeks its own identity, although it shares a design language with the hotel in its celebration of natural ma...
East London’s ?vertical community,? The Stratford, has recently unveiled Allegra ? its newest restaurant, designed by Danish studio Space Copenhagen, and led by chef Patrick Powell, former sous chef at Chiltern Firehouse. Bespoke seating and tables ? made especially for the space ?sit side by side with statement pieces such as Space Copenhagen?s Loafer Chair by &Tradition, while natural stone flooring references historic courtyard configurations once found in the neighborhood.
The restaurant boasts art by Bridget Riley from the personal collection of owner Harry Handlesman, in a timely link to the current Riley retrospective at the Hayward Gallery on London’s Southbank in which the piece above is reproduced as a full-scale wall graphic.
Extensive glazing and planting inside provide a visual connection to the seventh? floor garden of the residential tower and the tactile tableware has been specially developed by British ceramicist Sue Pryke. “Allegra has a brighter and lighter composition than the core amenity spaces of the hotel, which ? on a similar note ? are soft and friendly, yet denser to the eye and to the touch,” say Space Copenhagen co-founders Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou. ?Allegra seeks its own identity, although it shares a design language with the hotel in its celebration of natural ma...
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