Damien Hirst designs his second Pharmacy restaurant for Newport Street Gallery
British artist Damien Hirst has created the interiors for his own restaurant inside the Caruso St John-designed Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London – 13 years after his last restaurant closed (+ slideshow).
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Hirst's Pharmacy 2 is a continuation of the artist's Notting Hill-based Pharmacy restaurant, which was open from 1998 until 2003.
Similar to its predecessor, which was designed by Barber & Osgerby's interiors company Universal Design Studio, the interior follows a clinical theme inspired by Hirst's 1992 artwork Pharmacy.
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Images of tablets and brightly coloured pills have been embroidered onto leather banquettes and embedded into the marble floor. Bar stools are topped with pastel-coloured pill-shaped seats.
Walls are covered with a silver-coloured wall chart of pills and pharmaceutical products first produced for the original Pharmacy restaurant.
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Each section of the wallpaper features a pharmaceutical image, along with a title and a reference to a Biblical passage.
A neon prescriptions sign hangs above the bar, along with a series of sculptures based on molecular structures.
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Windows are covered with dark-coloured translucent vinyls. Stark lighting is used to reaffirm the restaurant's pharmaceutical theme.
A number of Hirst's site-specific works will also be exhibited throughout the restaurant, including the artist's Medicine Cabinets from 2010 and butterfly Kaleidoscope paintings.
Pharmacy 2 occupies a space on the first floor of Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, which was completed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in 2015.
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The restaurant is a collaboration between Hirst and chef Mark Hix, for whom Hirst has designed a number of restaurant installations, and is set to open on 23 February.
"Pharmacy 2 combines two of my greatest passions; art and food," said Hirst.
Photography is by Prudence Cuming Associates, courtesy of 2H Restaurant Ltd.