Cork Street
The Cork Street is a street in the West End of London , England with a number of small commercial galleries , for which she is known. It is to the north behind the Royal Academy , in the extension of the Burlington Arcade, which begins west of it.
The nearest underground station is Green Park .
Cork Street is part of the Burlington Estate district , which was built in the 18th century. The first Earl of Burlington was Richard Boyle , 2nd Earl of Cork - therefore the district also bears the name of the southern Irish city of Cork . Like the entire region, the street was connected to tailor shops , for example Beau Brummel , who had a decisive influence on English fashion at the beginning of the 19th century, had several tailor shops there. The nearby Savile Rowe is still the first address for high-quality clothing in the English gentlemanly style .
In the 20th century, Cork Street began as the home of art galleries. At first it was home to the Victoria Miro Gallery and the Messum's Gallery, and later several more of them were combined in the Cork Street Gallery . Among other things, from 1938 Peggy Guggenheim ran her gallery "Guggenheim Jeune" in No. 30 in the immediate vicinity of the exhibition rooms of ELT Mesens .
In addition to Max Ernst , Kurt Schwitters , Yves Tanguy and Geer van Velde , Francis Bacon, Edward Piper and John Piper, Francis Cotes and Roland Penrose also exhibited in Cork Street .
In 2012, Cork Street and the galleries were threatened with the demolition of various buildings and the rebuilding of luxury apartments and fashion stores, which threatened to displace them.
Trivia
- The satirist and physician John Arbuthnot died on February 27, 1735 at his home on Cork Street.
- Brownlow Bertie , 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven married his first wife on November 11, 1762, also on Cork Street.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 37 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 29 ″ W.