Design-led furniture store Heal's has set about marking its bicentenary by stripping its windows of the usual expensive-looking (and when you reach the cash desk, expensive in reality) stock and replacing this with, err, a bunch of art students from the nearby Slade art school.
We have, of course grown used to the idea of windows with live models, plants and even temporary art installations in our shop windows. But a scheme posited upon the idea of allowing shoppers to walk into the space normally reserved for merchandise and then to commission a quick and dirty art work would seem new.
The whole shooting match is in place for just a week and if you want a woodblock print, hot off the press, then at £20, this may be the place for you. But hurry, it's already three days old, the groovy studes are looking careworn and the whole thing is due to be dismantled on Friday.
