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The new DMR Canary Wharf presents multiple client-focused serving spaces in-store, including a bespoke bridal lounge, where visitors can enjoy a luxurious, welcoming space for their consultations.
For John Robinson, Managing Director at DMR, the Canary Wharf showroom is well worth being excited about: “We are very excited to have the opportunity to present DMR and our luxury partner brands in this beautiful new space at the heart of Canary Wharf. With dedicated spaces for Rolex, Patek Philippe, and TUDOR, this new showroom celebrates our relationships with some of the world’s finest brands, whilst holding true to the same friendly, client-focused approach of the DMR brand as a whole.”
DMR’s latest opening also features a dedicated Rolex showroom. Clients enter through the welcome and exploration area featuring a limestone watch bar framed by the brand’s recognisable green aqua glass, where they can enjoy private consultations and After Sales appointments. A VIP room, featuring a Rolex library, is also introduced to the showroom for added privacy.
As the exclusive authorised retailer for TUDOR watches in the area, DMR Canary Wharf also introduces a dedicated space for the brand’s Sales Ambassadors to introduce their iconic collections.
Stuart Fyfe, Managing Director of Retail Leasing at Canary Wharf Group, explained that “DMR have been one of our top performing tenants in Canary Wharf for many years, and it has been a pleasure to collaborate with them and ultimately deliver together this truly world class store. The new stunning store is three times the size of the previous store, and has dedicated areas for luxury brands Rolex, Patek Philippe, and TUDOR. It is tremendous to see it open and trading, and a significant testament to the success of retail in the ever-expanding Canary Wharf Estate. We could not be prouder of what DMR has achieved.”
Canary Wharf Showroom: 32-33, Jubilee Place, London E14 5NY
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THE ESSENTIAL JOURNAL PRESENTS
TYPIST ARTIST PIRATE KING
Imagery courtesy of Metro Films
Carol Morley’s latest dalliance, Typist Artist Pirate King, premiered this weekend as part of the inaugural critic’s picks of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Morley’s record of stunning biopics and inquisitive storytelling had me hankering to see this film from the moment I first heard about it, so when we were invited over to Estonia to witness the international premiere, I grabbed my notebook, grabbed my passport, and, in the spirit of Morley’s enigmatic lead Audrey Amiss, I hit the road.
Typist is a remarkably delicate film. It delivers an in-depth, artfully curated look at the life of lost artist — or self-proclaimed ‘Typist Artist Pirate King’ — Audrey Amiss, a Sunderland reared eccentric who’d stumbled through a series of arduous instances and carried a stack of paper and paints all the way through. We meet Audrey (portrayed, with care, by the reliably incandescent Monica Dolan) later in her life. She lives in a hoarder’s flat overrun with all sorts of papers, documents, wrappers and trinkets that she uses in her, as she states, “biographical” art.
These pictures and words are accumulated in such a way that they are the cacophony of every thought in one singular moment - once that moment has passed so, then, has the need for further thought. Like children’s art, a fleeting moment captured in shimmering, breathless exultation, but juxtaposed with the depravity of long-lived experience. This is what makes her such an interesting artist to explore both from a journalistic perspective and a philosophical, academic perspective. You can’t help but find a similarity to Andrei Sinyavksky’s writing, back in those penal colonies of 60s Russia, in A Voice From The Chorus and the spontaneous chapters of life in exile - permanence does not capture the moment, only the spontaneous can. We’re inclined towards context, wholly and unwaveringly, when it comes to creating art, Audrey Amiss negates this with a flourish.
However, the fleeting nature of Audrey’s art is not shared by her mind. Rats scurry through her flat as an indicator of a woman unable to function; the distress rooted in her troubling obsession with an event in her past. Furthered by her clinical schizophrenia, her frazzled, single-minded preoccupation distracts from commitment in any sense. She lives alone, she’s mentally fragile, and the only consistency she affords herself (although with a fierce disagreement) is the care of the NHS worker who checks in monthly. Kelly Macdonald handles her role of this nurse, Sandra, with much of the nuance and skill we’ve come to find solace in her for. She’s a subtle spirit, pulled out by the effervescent chemistry with Dolan that make the pair an addictive, warming watch.
So, as Audrey enlists Sandra to drive her, in a little yellow Nissan called ‘Sunshine’, out of the dredges of her London entrapment to the shining potential of an art showcase in her home town of Sunderland, a numinous sense falls over you as you become hotly aware that, yes you’ll be joining them on this road trip, but you’re invited along to a transformative adventure as well.
Typist Artist Pirate King is set for release in 2023.
