{"id":15518,"date":"2016-06-05T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gran-designs-the-london-pub-chain-spearheading-the-granny-chic-trend\/"},"modified":"2016-06-05T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:02:24","slug":"gran-designs-the-london-pub-chain-spearheading-the-granny-chic-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gran-designs-the-london-pub-chain-spearheading-the-granny-chic-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran designs: the London pub chain spearheading the 'granny chic' trend"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOld pieces of furniture and clashing prints are the latest trend in London pub design. Jonny Ensall visits an artfully shabby venue in PeckhamYou might never have heard of Antic but, chances are, if you live in London, you have drunk in an Antic pub. The chain has 45 venues in the capital \u2013 the latest of which, John the Unicorn, opened on Peckham\u2019s Rye Lane in late February. Rye Lane isn\u2019t necessarily somewhere you\u2019d expect premium craft ales with a snack of \u201cbeef dripping focaccia with yeasted butter\u201d, but John the Unicorn is carving out a niche among the grocers, phone shops and beauty salons of the famous southeast London high street. Its existence here is a marker of just how ubiquitous the Antic brand has become.It\u2019s a particularly scruffy marker, however. With its big blue lettering and cracked tiles the outside looks like a fish and chip shop that hasn\u2019t been touched since the 1970s. Inside, the decor is similarly threadbare. It could be described it as \u201cgranny chic\u201d. \u201cAll the pieces of furniture that we use, people relate to them,\u201d says Dunia Goymer, Antic\u2019s head of design, who is showing me around. \u201cBecause they\u2019ll say: \u2018Oh my goodness, my grandmother had that in her house.\u2019\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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