The TMH Edit: six things to do this July
July is here and things are hotting up. Our hand-picked list of brilliant things to do and see this month includes a healthy helping of alfresco dining and the opening of a natural wine bar inspired by the all-day cafés of Paris. There’s also plenty of art, with exhibitions that not only promise beautiful work to pore over, but a rather wonderful refuge from the heat of the summer too.
Faye Toogood: Drawing, Material, Sculpture, Landscape
Design fans will be excited by the release of the first in-depth coffee table tome dedicated to the work of Faye Toogood. As its title suggests, the book celebrates the many facets of Faye’s practice. “I’m a greedy designer,” she once said of her work, which spans furniture, interiors, sculpture, homeware and fashion. The beautifully curated pages are rich with 275 photographs and illustrations, many of which showcase the designer’s poetic finished pieces and exclusive archive material. But perhaps the best bit is the light it shines on Faye and her studio’s extraordinary creative process. Drawing, Material, Sculpture, Landscape is out now, with words by fashion historian Alistair O’Neill and published by Phaidon.
Photography: Genevieve Lutkin
Legare x Garden Museum London
The Garden Museum in Lambeth, south London, is a particularly lovely place to visit in summer, for its glorious collection of leafy plants and grounds to wander around. Come 1 July from 6pm, however, and a trip to the horticulture haven will be even more enticing, as its cafe hosts a one-off collaboration with Italian restaurant, Legare. Head chef Matt Beardmore will be joining George Rye of Garden Museum Cafe in the kitchen to serve a four-course tasting menu of plates including courgette flowers with stuffed crab, cavatelli with pesto, monkfish and clams, and blackberry and hazelnut tart. Weather permitting, we’ll be dining in the garden with a glass of wine or two.
Wild Feast at Oxmoor Farm
How does a dinner party set among a lush no-dig and regenerative farm in Buckingshire sound? Even better, we say, when some of the country’s most promising culinary minds are there cooking with local ingredients over an open fire. Wild Feasts at Oxmoor Farm is the supper club doing just that, founded by friends Harry Hope-Morley and Paddy Maynard. This month, on 9 July, Joe Woodhouse, most recently of Towpath, will serve his signature vegetarian plates, including fire-roasted seasonal veg, and tomato broth and herb dumplings. There are plenty more cheffing talents hosting tables here throughout summer too, including Brendan Eades, who was previously head chef at Silos, Xanthe Gladstone and George Williams of River Cafe.
Rich Stapleton and JamesPlumb: (Of) Bath, MMXXII at Francis Gallery
Readers of our magazine will be familiar with the work of Rich Stapleton, the acclaimed photographer known for his elegant, atmospheric images. Most recently, he shot the extraordinary house Turn End, the favourite of our co-founder, Albert Hill, for Issue No.4 of our magazine. So, when we heard Rich is showing work at an upcoming exhibition at Francis Gallery in his hometown of Bath, it instantly earned a spot in our diaries. Titled ‘(Of) Bath, MMXXII’, the show will feature Rich’s images alongside furniture and sculptures by JamesPlumb. More details will follow soon over on Francis Gallery’s website. From 14 July to 10 September 2022.
Milton Avery: American Colourist at Royal Academy of Arts
Before there was Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, there was Milton Avery: the artist revered by his successors for his exquisite command of colour and form. The New York-born artist is, in fact, one of the 20th century’s most influential creative talents, loved for his compelling landscapes and portraits by the aforementioned abstract expressionists and contemporary artists such as Peter Doig. It’s quite remarkable, then, given his status, that the forthcoming ‘Milton Avery: American Colourist at Royal Academy of Arts’ is the first major retrospective of the North American artist on this side of the Atlantic. The show presents more than 70 of his most recognisable paintings and runs from 15 July to 22 October 2022.
Beach Blankets, 1960. Black Sea, 1959.
Bottle & Rye
Residents of Brixton, rejoice: chef Robin Gill and his wife, Sarah, are opening the doors to a new natural wine bar on 20 July. Bottle & Rye takes inspiration from the all-day bistros in Paris – and has a French-leaning small-plates menu, featuring smoked eel brandade with pink fir crisps, and vichyssoise oyster tartare, to match. “I’m very excited to be opening my first restaurant in Brixton, an area where I’ve lived for most of my London life,” explains Robin. “Bottle & Rye is inspired by the Parisian cafe culture that Sarah and I are so fond of. These bistros are filled from morning through to night.” Cheers to that. Sign up here to be the first to receive details of the launch.
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