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“I like this idea that in Britain we are obsessed by flowers,” Anderson explains as we enter the first room on the second floor, a homage to London’s parks, featuring an “orchestra of irises” by painter Cedric Morris, bold floral collages by Joe Brainard, the metal anthurium breastplates that featured in Loewe’s spring 2023 collection, and an incredibly rare exploded pot resembling unfurling petals by Lucie Rie.
Our final topographical pitstop? Anderson’s take on the London pub, an intimate, red-walled space where the reflective bubble dress from his eponymous brand’s spring 2023 collection serves as a bulbous lamp, illuminating artistic figures, from Christopher Wood to Hockney. “I wanted to imagine a dialogue between Lucian Freud or Walter Sickert,” Anderson says. “It’s about this idea of debate and conversation, something that should probably be protected in Britain.”
“After so many years of transition, lockdown, Brexit, when you look at all these different paintings, it reminds you you would not have Freud without London,” Anderson adds. “The city can be this melting pot of information and ideas, and its self-confidence is coming back again. The exhibition is really about falling back in love with getting on a bus in London and looking out the window.”
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