Barfly: Iron Fairies

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There are many bars and restaurants but not many like Iron Fairies, whose origin lies in a children’s tale of the same name written and published by miner, designer and author Ashley Sutton. Stepping through the Iron Fairies portal is like stepping into another world of the type you see on television, in the cinema or in your imagination.

Resembling a furnace room, there so much going on your eyes don’t know where to look, perhaps when it’s full of drinkers the experience will be different but the feeling of entering another realm was compelling on our visit. The ceiling of butterflies whispering and flowing like waves. The low cast iron tables inset with candles and mounds of iron fairies to resemble fires. The six furnaces that dominate the bar, the walls of iron working tools, the bundles of fairies dust… A smorgasbord of stimuli that are not pictures or printed wall designs as you’d expect, but real and physical and reward close inspection.
It must be a bitch to dust and keep clean.

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With live music, crafted cocktails Iron Fairies is going to be one of the places to be, but to enjoy and appreciate the wonders of the this part of the Iron Fairies world – there’s books, a website and bars in Bangkok and Tokyo – go when it’s less busy, read the tale, wonder on the identities of the twelve fairies and their tales of love and life.