Press

As seen and heard

From Haggerston to the wider world — a few stories about our shop, our people and the artists we work with.

Featured coverage

MONOCLE RADIO   The Steam Room on air, 2024
BBC RADIO LONDON   Lunar New Year at The Steam Room, 2022
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST   Fashion’s favourite dry cleaner, 2020
HACKNEY GAZETTE   Ai Weiwei at The Steam Room, 2024

More coverage, newest first

2026   The Nudge (shop mention)
2025   LUXE/DETOUR · Made in Shoreditch
2024   Artnet · Condé Nast Traveller
2023   Dickies — Generations · London on the Inside
2022   MyLondon · Hackney Gazette · Made in Shoreditch · Time Out
2021   The Sun · Hackney Gazette · The Comm · BBC film · Hackney Post
2020   The Guardian
2019 and earlier   Courier London · London Shopfronts by Emma J Page

Interviews, features and images from the archive below.

Monocle Radio

https://twitter.com/Monocle_Radio/status/1756261069679431806

Made in Shoreditch

https://madeinshoreditch.co.uk/2022/02/08/how-about-the-experiential-laboratory-fuses-fashion-art-and-digitalisation-in-their-lfw-installation/

London shop fronts

by Emma J Page

BBC Live

Lunar New Year 2021 at the Steam Room

2nd City Radio 20th

20th August 2021

Hackney Gazette

August, 2021

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/things-to-do/hackney-dry-cleaners-showcases-batik-art-8264892

Hackney Gazette

7th June 2021

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/things-to-do/kingsland-road-dry-cleaners-exhibits-scottish-chinese-art-8031718

Huffington Post 2021

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lunar-new-year-food-celebrations_uk_601a7bd3c5b6f41348c56c71

Hackney Gazette

10th March 2021

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/cllr-adams-steam-room-visit-7817618

https://twitter.com/hackneyspeaker/status/1365341949662797827?s=20

South china morning post

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/3048177/henry-holland-roksanda-ilincic-do-dry-cleaning-here

Courier Live 1.11.2019

How to put a profitable twiston an old-school sector

Ai Weiwei – Guardian

https://www.cntraveller.com/article/lunar-new-year-london

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-weiwei-steam-room-uk-2432869

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3Kl56GNcco/?hl=en

https://fadmagazine.com/2024/02/06/see-ai-weiweis-new-print-at-the-steam-room-in-haggerston/

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/24097642.ai-weiwei-shows-artwork-dry-cleaner-lunar-new-year/

https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/24097642.ai-weiwei-shows-artwork-dry-cleaner-lunar-new-year/

https://www.widewalls.ch/news-feed/ai-weiwei-steam-room-dry-cleaners-london

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/24097642.ai-weiwei-shows-artwork-dry-cleaner-lunar-new-year/

https://londontheinside.com/see-a-print-by-ai-weiwei-at-this-east-london-dry-cleaners/

made in dickies:

generations

The Sun

1st Dec 2021

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/16894018/dry-cleaner-what-its-really-like-cash-passports-sick/

Hackney Gazette

15th March, 2021

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney-steam-room-owners-7817928

MyLondon

Feb 2022
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/i-grew-up-under-chinese-22863577

Guardian fashion

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/feb/19/wednesday-addams-plaits-and-jurassic-park-chic-14-style-lessons

bbc radio london

The Comm

6th July 2021

https://the-comm.online/blog/loh-is-having-a-pop-up-at-the-steam-room/

london on the inside

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq5tboqI5G1/?igsh=ejBvbzR6a215Z3Z3

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3Kl56GNcco/?hl=en

Hackney Gazette

24th Jan 2022

Timeout

Feb 2022
https://www.timeout.com/london/art/lunar-new-year-lai-see-canvas-workshop

Beast Magazine

Issue 13 June 2021

Hackney Post

7th March 2021

https://hackneypost.co.uk/lifestyle-shop-dry-cleaning/

Courier London

September 2019 edition

n by norwegian magazine

http://nmagazine.ink

Hackney Gazette

15th April 2021

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney-art-exhibited-in-haggerston-dry-cleaners-7896470