Maison Bertaux
Patisserie Maison Bertaux, owned by sisters Michele and Tania Wade, serves as Firrell's studio and poste restante, and the Wades have described Firrell as their permanent artist in residence. Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 25 July 2004, Firrell described Maison Bertaux as his spiritual home and the café at the epicentre of the civilised world. He credited the café's staff with ensuring his welfare during the planning and production of large, demanding projects.
Firrell's working method is founded on writing a journal daily which “acts as a net” catching the development of his ideas and tracking evolving trains of creative thought. As a project matures, Firrell switches to the use of small pieces of paper: individual statements or visual elements are printed on separate paper slips and laid out in a variety of combinations before Firrell decides on the final structure of the work to be digitally mastered. The majority of Firrell's recent works have been created in this way in the little upstairs tea room at Maison Bertaux where 'hooligan art dealer' Tania Wade also shows artists' work.
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