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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Ellis

Celebrity restaurant sketch puts famous pink chairs up for auction

Style icons: the chairs in situ

(Picture: Ryan & Robert)

One of London’s most famous restaurants, sketch, is presently auctioning off the very furniture that helped made it so popular in the first place.

The Mayfair icon revealed earlier this year that after eight years its pink room — a hit with celebrities and influencers alike — had been rennovated, given a makeover by India Mahdavi (who, it should be said, did the pink scheme too). Officially known as the Gallery, the space is now a rich dusky yellow, and both the David Shrigley artwork that lined the walls and the pink chairs that filled it have gone.

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