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Spencer Finch’s What Colour is the Sea Today? (see Triennial Highlights) Photo: Thierry Bal
The Grand Hotel lives up to its name Photo:
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The Coastal Park
The man-made pays were created in the shape of fish tails
Dame revisited Where to eat/stay
The big recent news for the town has been the opening of Rocksalt (
www.rocksalt
folkestone.co.uk), a harbourside restaurant designed by Guy Hollaway architects and run by Folkestone boy and Gordon Ramsay protegé, Mark Sargeant. Broadsheet reviews have said that, while service can be wobbly, the food (with a menu including fresh fish and Romney Marsh Lamb) is excellent. Just opposite is The Old
Smokehouse – another Sargeant venture – where cod-and-chips- to-go – with the batter exceptionally light and crispy – costs £7.95.
Other food options include heading up the hill for an ice- cream sundae or afternoon tea at one of the hotels on the Leas – The Grand (
www.grand-
uk.com) is hard to beat: £9 for the full monty. If you want to stay, a room here will set you back from £65 per person. For further information, see
www.discoverfolkestone.co.uk
i AK Dolven’s Out of Tune – see Triennial highlights Photo: Thierry Bal Triennial highlights
of the installations or at the Triennial Office and it’s well worth checking out the website in advance at
www.folkestone
triennial.org.uk to help you pre- plan your visit, but don’t miss: ◆ The Folkestone mermaid – Cornelia Parker’s life-size, life-cast statue, a tribute to more idealised
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APS TO GUIDE YOU around a walkable art trail are available at any
Copenhagen piece – is modelled on mother-of-two, Folkestone- born-and-bred Georgina Baker. Presumably the seaweed hair is the artist’s invention... ◆ Out of Tune - a large church bell, previously rejected for being discordant with others – is suspended high above the beach in AK Dolven’s installation. Visitors can pull the rope and hear its non-conformist voice ring out loud
and true. Powerful and moving. ◆ Hew Locke’s nautical installation, ‘For Those In Peril on the Sea’. Hanging from the nave of St Mary and St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone’s oldest building, are 100 or so model boats of every description - warships, trawlers, steamers, liners, brigs, rafts and junks, garnered from around the world. Locke hopes that the piece will,
“
...stimulate thoughts on globalisation, and on illegal immigration, drug smuggling and contemporary piracy.” ◆ The Leas lift – now fitted with suitably atmospheric music to accompany its steep ascent and descent. ◆ What Colour is the Sea Today? Spencer Finch’s colour wheel brings a whole new dimension to the pantone colour chart.
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Above and this photo: Rocksalt restaurant, with building designed by Guy Hollaway Architects
www.guyhollaway.co.uk.
The INDEX magazine september 2011
Photos: Mark Whitfield & Ashley Gendek/Guy Hollaway Architects
Photos:
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