The Seafront

The Sea Front is a bespoke carpet commission in the main entrance stair, and upper corridors of Art B&B, an independent boutique art hotel and venue in Blackpool, UK, instigated by Leftcoast, and launched in 2019. Art B&B is a community business which re-invests profits in arts and community projects in Blackpool.

The Sea Front responds to in-depth research undertaken by Jenny Steele into the pleasure architecture constructed along Blackpool seafront over the last 150 years, that provided spaces of rest and relaxation for visitors to the town.

Jenny has selected motifs from the exterior and interior of the following pleasure architecture: Blackpool Casino and Pleasure Beach – iconic red wheel; The Winter Gardens Foyer – exterior half-moon windows; and The Tower Ballroom stage steps.

These celebratory symbols of Blackpool’s architecture have been created into a semi-abstract repeat pattern for the Art B&B interior by North of England based carpet manufacturer, Gaskell & McKay, who Jenny worked closely with to interpret the design into a unique Axminster Carpet.

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