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Henry Holland, Roksanda Ilincic do dry cleaning here – London’s The Steam Room could be city’s coolest place to clean clothes
- Chinese-run The Steam Room in London doesn’t just clean clothes, it sells tote bags and T-shirts and runs an underground events space for artists
- Its clientele includes celebrity designers and it recently hosted an exhibition by the artist Xi Jianjun
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When was the last time you were excited to go to the dry cleaners?
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That right there – the resounding silence of trying to associate dry cleaning with excitement – is why The Steam Room in East London is such a rarity.
Run by Tony Chung and his wife Fran Lieu, The Steam Room is a dry cleaners combined with a lifestyle shop and an underground events space.
Arguably London’s coolest dry cleaners, it recently hosted an exhibition by the artist Xi Jianjun, and its clientele includes designers Roksanda Ilincic, Peter Pilotto and Henry Holland.
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But The Steam Room wasn’t always the category-redefining dry cleaners that it is now.
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