Photo credit: Connor Rusby
Photo credits: Martin Hislop
Leftovers Loveseat
London Festival of Architecture 2025
Leftovers Loveseat is a public art commission by Marie-Louise Jones, created in collaboration with Foils Architects and Love Design Studio, and selected as a winning entry of the Fitz & Sits competition for the London Festival of Architecture 2025
Installed in Fitzrovia, the work reimagines the 19th-century love seat as a contemporary sculptural bench, combining functional design with playful form. Responding to its urban context, the project engages questions of reuse, sustainability, and how public artworks can support social interaction within the city
The Loveseat incorporates hyperlocal waste streams, including oyster shells sourced from Bentley’s Oyster Bar, which were diverted from landfill and reprocessed into a new sculptural composite. Through this material transformation, the project foregrounds how discarded materials can be revalued through design, craft, and collective use.
The commission extends Marie-Louise Jones’ ongoing investigation into calcium carbonate as a sculptural material, tracing its movement across biological, geological, and industrial systems - from limestone and industrial by-products to food waste and public seating. Sited within a neighbourhood shaped by dining culture and architectural history, Leftovers Loveseat invites people to sit, pause, and connect, positioning care and shared use as central to sustainable urban practice. Following its initial installation, the work will be permanently sited with The Langham Estate
London Festival of Architecture 2025
Leftovers Loveseat is a public art commission by Marie-Louise Jones, created in collaboration with Foils Architects and Love Design Studio, and selected as a winning entry of the Fitz & Sits competition for the London Festival of Architecture 2025
Installed in Fitzrovia, the work reimagines the 19th-century love seat as a contemporary sculptural bench, combining functional design with playful form. Responding to its urban context, the project engages questions of reuse, sustainability, and how public artworks can support social interaction within the city
The Loveseat incorporates hyperlocal waste streams, including oyster shells sourced from Bentley’s Oyster Bar, which were diverted from landfill and reprocessed into a new sculptural composite. Through this material transformation, the project foregrounds how discarded materials can be revalued through design, craft, and collective use.
The commission extends Marie-Louise Jones’ ongoing investigation into calcium carbonate as a sculptural material, tracing its movement across biological, geological, and industrial systems - from limestone and industrial by-products to food waste and public seating. Sited within a neighbourhood shaped by dining culture and architectural history, Leftovers Loveseat invites people to sit, pause, and connect, positioning care and shared use as central to sustainable urban practice. Following its initial installation, the work will be permanently sited with The Langham Estate
Photo credits: London Festival of Architecture
LFA installation: June 5th - Aug 30th, 2025, at the corner of Mortimer Street & Great Titchfield Street, Fitzrovia. Now sited permanently at The Langham Estate