Heals on the Tottenham court road in London, is the furniture store where students of architecture go to salivate over various designer goodies. Yet the only furniture that you’re actually likely to use while in Heals is in the Oliver Peyton Restaurant Meals. A few years ago he hired the hip architectural firm FAT, (fashion architecture taste), to design it. Fat’s designs are concerned with real emotions, memory, images, politics , language and place , rather than prevailing diktats of modernist abstraction.
These Trompe l’oeil tables are a careful balance of a language of domestic simplicity and the feel of high quality event. The table-cloth table-top is mdf with a white colour core Formica laminate, so there are no black edges at the corners of the Formica and it would still looks good even if it were chipped. This sits on a supporting frame that is held off the ground by solid oak legs.
They are quite at home in the restaurant’s oak cut-out set of a garden tea-time, in the centre of London.
