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The Leftovers Love Seat is a zero-waste love seat and uses recycled waste from Fitzrovia's restaurants and hotels.
Food is at the heart of every community, bringing people together across cultures and traditions. In Fitzrovia, with its vibrant restaurants, food is a shared experience, a conversation, a reflection of the diversity of the people who live and work there.
Fitzrovia is also renowned for its rich Georgian and Victorian heritage. S-shaped love seats became popular in the 19th century and would have been commonplace in the elegant townhouses and salons of Fitzrovia.
The Leftovers Love Seat brings together these two Fitzrovia traditions by creating a love seat made using recycled waste from local restaurants and cafes. Waste ranging from oyster shells, wine bottles, plastic forks and broken china plates will be collected from a range of restaurants and cafes in Fitzrovia. The waste materials will be ground down into small fragments, which can be cast into a love seat, which represents Fitzrovia’s rich and eclectic cultural identity.
About Us
Marie-Louise James is an award-winning artist with institutional commissions from the Barbican Centre, exhibitions with Tate Modern and Saatchi Gallery, awards include; East London Impact Scholars Award, longlisted for The Davidson Prize, Ingram Prize, an Arts Council England Award for exploring sculpture within new economies and ecologies.
Foils is a London-based architecture studio founded by Ned Scott. Ned is an ARB registered architect and teacher at Greenwich University and UCL. He is also an Associate at STORE, a social enterprise with a focus on addressing inequality and underrepresentation in creative education through the provision of an educational programme, socially engaged practice and public events.
Love Design Studio is an environmental consultancy working with teams in the built environment to create sustainable buildings and promote ethical business practices. With a zero-waste initiative, they ensure every project aligns seamlessly with circular economy principles, reducing embodied carbon, and optimising choices through understanding the life cycle of materials, making significant strides towards a more sustainable built environment.
About The Langham Estate
The Langham Estate is a long-established property company, owning and managing 11.3 acres in Fitzrovia Quarter. Bordered by Oxford Street to the south and extending towards Regent’s Park, the Estate is home to a broad mix of occupiers – from design studios and media agencies to specialist retailers, restaurants, and medical practices. The Langham Estate supports a vibrant and evolving community and, through an ongoing commitment to placemaking, continues to shape Fitzrovia Quarter into one of London’s most dynamic neighbourhoods.
Why are we sponsoring a Fitz&Sits seat?
Supporting the installation of a Fitz & Sits seat aligns with our commitment to placemaking in Fitzrovia Quarter and highlights the area’s reputation as a hub of creativity and culture through these engaging art installations. We welcome this initiative for drawing attention to the need for more public seating and hope it paves the way for permanent solutions that enhance public spaces for residents, workers, and visitors alike.
What does it mean to us?
With nearly a century of history and thirty years under current ownership, The Langham Estate is deeply rooted in Fitzrovia’s heritage. This Fitz & Sits seat symbolises that heritage, reflecting the timeless character synonymous with The Langham Estate. At the same time, crafted from sustainable materials and featuring a modern design twist, it represents our commitment to innovation, sustainability, and looking forward to the future of placemaking and responsible property management.
https://langhamestate.com/fitzrovia/
Fitzrovia is a Destination for the 2025 Festival which will be a Fitzrovia-wide celebration with more than 20 events throughout June.
From exhibitions to workshops to talks to trails to installations to performances, there are many exciting events to enjoy.
Fitzrovia Lates takes place on Thursday 26 June from 6pm – 9pm and is a diverse and inclusive evening of events, workshops and exhibitions for Londoners and visitors to explore architectural practices in the district.
Developed collaboratively with local stakeholders, these events bring together creativity, community and city-making practices which reflect the unique identities of people and the area.
View all the events which are part of Fitzrovia Destination.
The Fitzrovia Partnership provides a cohesive approach to help businesses achieve shared objectives and as an area we are making great strides to achieve a more economic and environmentally sustainable district. 
Fiona Clark, Board Member
Practice Director and Co-owner, David Miller Architects
