Enjoy life in and around the place you live Autumn/Winter 2014

The British issue Endless luxury Creating London’s perfect penthouses Measuring Up The leading women in bespoke outfitting By Royal Appointment What it takes to earn a crest Made in Britain It’s all in the detail Executive editors Chris Abel Nick Jones The British issue Editor Katie Park London has never been more popular. Design director Matt Hill With more people visiting the city than ever before and attracting more visitors Digital design than any other city in the world, this edition of Homes & London is dedicated Simon Hodgkinson to celebrating one of the most important reasons for the cityʼs popularity among Production manager Cynthia Duku-Asamoah not just those who visit, but those who choose to live or work here. The one word

Picture editor that can sum up its distinctive architecture, culture and lifestyle – in short, Katie Mousley being British. Writers Hayley Ard Josh Sims St James is part of the Berkeley Group, one of the UKʼs most admired Rebecca Hattersley companies and a leading residential developer. As a British company, we bring Claire Walsh a deliberately British perspective to the way in which we create world-class Publisher Totality UK Ltd places to live – working with globally-renowned architects and designers, and Cover investing in state-of-the-art materials and products. Whether designing modern Infini at The Corniche, Albert Embankment, London. riverside addresses or renovating precious historic buildings, St James creates Computer generated image. some of the most desirable and enjoyable places to live in and around London. So we hope you enjoy this issue dedicated to all things British and how they can add to the enjoyment of living in the worldʼs most popular city.

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04 Scenic routes 45 Time frames St James collection In a nation with an abundance of rich and Holding the national collection of British art, 96 Places to live from St James diverse scenery, the Landscape Photographer with a recently refurbished interior and rehung of the Year Awards celebrate the best of collection in chronological order, Tate Britain 98 The Corniche Britain’s landscapes. From the south coast feels like new. Homes & London’s Rebecca 102 Hurlingham Walk to the Scottish moors, we explain how to Hattersley takes a walk anticlockwise through experience first-hand some of Britain’s most 500 years of art’s history. 105 Hurlingham Gate prized lookouts. 106 Merano Residences 49 The diary 15 Measuring up 110 Brewery Wharf 84 Our pick of the most anticipated In the traditionally male-dominated and events taking place across the 112 Brewery Gate perfecting world of true luxury bespoke capital this winter. outfitting, more and more women are 114 Kew Bridge West emerging at the forefront of the industry. 118 Riverlight From Savile Row to Clerkenwell, we meet 61 Endless luxury some of London’s best in the field. With Infini at The Corniche, St James is Coming soon elevating the experience of London penthouse 25 Modern classics living above anything ever seen before. We 122 Richmond Road In an era in which high-tech architecture and meet those charged with creating the capital’s 123 Smithfield Square 80 modern construction methods point to the most elevated lifestyle and discover just how future for their inspiration, it is reassuring much they’ve raised the bar. 124 22-29 Albert Embankment to see how classical influences are also being London is a place of 69 Made in Britain 124 Kew Bridge West Phase II re-interpreted to create new residences Britain has an unsurpassed reputation for for contemporary living. 124 Southall Gas Works surprising contrasts, 91 traditional craftsmanship where quality counts over quantity. We look at British companies 29 Hidden attractions raw colour and – from leather goods to cars, to jewellery and London is a city like no other, vast and pens – which exemplify an approach in which individuality, a versatile, with an amazing and often quirky no detail goes amiss. history that goes back more than 2,000 years. cosmopolitan mish- Homes & London goes beyond the tourist hot 80 Material difference spots to bring you three more unusual and mash that is always Materials and finishes are, and have always hidden attractions, offering the curious visitor been, two of the greatest strengths in British a truly unique experience. in flux – and, above design. We bring together a selection from the less well-known to the more established 34 By royal appointment all, home. British designers. In a world seemingly obsessed by celebrity culture, it’s become easy to ignore the 84 The new traditionals ephemeral product endorsements of those In a world full of selfies, smartphones and who appear on our TV screens. However, sushi, some of London’s top establishments there’s one endorsement with greater lineage are reinventing 19th-century fare for the 34 and substance that’s hard to overlook – that 21st-century palate. of the Royal Family. We look at what it takes to earn a crest and what it can mean for 91 A gentleman’s view a business. London has been a source of inspiration for artists for centuries, but for David Gentleman – 41 Perfectly appointed the British artist-designer behind the platform- As recommended by your own personal length mural at Charing Cross tube station, ‘Royal shopper’, inspired gift ideas for home, countless postage stamps, urban prints him and her handpicked from those holding and watercolours, many of which are in the a Royal Warrant of Appointment. collections of the British Museum, Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum – the city is far more than that. It’s a place of surprising contrasts, raw colour and individuality, a cosmopolitan mish-mash that is always in flux – and, above all, home.

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Scenic routes In a nation with an abundance of rich and diverse scenery, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards celebrate the best of Britain’s landscapes. From the south coast to the Scottish moors, we explain how to experience first-hand some of Britain’s most prized lookouts.

WRITER Claire Walsh

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lthough we may be a small collection of islands, Britain has vastly varied landscape within, something photographer Charlie Waite set out to celebrate when he started the Landscape Photographer of the Year eight years ago. The competition is open to everyone: amateurs and professionals, old and young take part, and founder Waite encourages anyone to set out, see the country’s landscape

with fresh eyes, and start shooting. 26 The photographer shares one of his own equipment Charlie Waite, 26a secrets by saying that he packs a small stepladder Founder, Landscape Photographer of the Year into the car whenever he can, “so many times a composition would be hugely improved if you 26 could just be that little bit higher,” he explains. tx 5063 “A vital component is the light,” he adds. “Many photographers prefer spring and autumn light, which is less harsh. Warm evening light or the first light of dawn can be hard to beat.” 25 The 2014 competition is held in 25a association with VisitBritain and Countryside is GREAT and the winners will be on display in Central London later this

year (more information at: www.take-a-view.co.uk). But 25 here within our pages, we recap past competition highlights tx 5063 and direct you to winning spots, so you can experience these vistas first hand. Buckholt Wood, Cranham, Gloucestershire,

22 England 22a Photograph: Robert Wolstenholme, Ghost of Rannoch Highly Commended, Moor, Scotland Adult Classic view (2013) 22 Photograph: tx 5063 David Breen, Winner, Given their proximity to the capital, the Adult Classic view (2013) Cotswold’s are a popular jaunt with Londoners. Close to Gloucester, the 19th century pile Remote, in a way that only Scotland can be, Cowley Manor, is a good choice for a weekend Rannoch Moor was once the centre of an ice exploring. The building’s Italianate bones are 21 field thousands of years ago. It is now peat 21a offset by mid-century and modern decoration heavy bogland edging the dark Rannoch Loch and the plush spa and a delicious restaurant waters, and on a cold crisp morning it feels like could hold you captive all weekend, so the big freeze only just thawed. Unfortunately, remember you are here to experience the

the lone island tree depicted in David Breen’s 21 area’s rolling hills and pretty landscape. 5063 tx 5063 winning photo (above) has since passed, but Head to Cranham where a circular four-mile the wild landscape still evokes eerie beauty. loop starts and ends in the ancient Buckholt Itʼs an ancient woodland, Fully appreciate the area’s stark charm, Wood, the spot that Robert Wolstenholme took and stay at the Moor of Rannoch Hotel, but this photograph. Dawn provides truly stunning with records going back to take note that here TV, radio and Internet views through the trees, but if you time your the time of the Domesday 20 are unavailable. If that’s not your speed book 20a stroll with the low light of dusk you can finish a weekend in Edinburgh’s Malmaison Hotel, up by stopping in the village’s Blackhorse Inn Book… if thereʼs a forecast the city is a little over two hours drive away. for refreshment. for early mist clearing to Getting to Rannoch Moor Getting to Buckholt Wood

20 sunshine, thereʼs a good Crossed by the A82, the Moor tx 5063 Driving to the village of Cranham via the B4070 is 15 miles north of Tyndrum. takes 15 minutes. Public transport equates to two chance Iʼll be out for dawn. Moor of Rannoch Hotel buses so a taxi is an alternative recommendation. www.moorofrannoch.co.uk Cowley Manor www.cowleymanor.com Robert Wolstenholme

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Looking East from White Nothe, Dorset, England Photograph: Jake Pike, Winner, Youth Classic view (2013)

Dorset’s Jurassic Coast is so named because of its geological wealth, and West Lulworth, which is a three-hour drive from London, makes the perfect spot for a weekend exploring the jagged cliffs. Check in and get an early night at the Limestone Hotel, as you’ll be rising early next morning for an excursion to White Nothe (White Nose), a headland that is a perfect clifftop lookout. Make your way along the South West Coast Path until you reach some old coastal cottages, this is White Nothe. Catch sunrise, and watch the sea mists clear, changing the colour of the chalky cliffs as dawn breaks to the east; the Isle of Portland is visible to the west. You could spend the rest of the day on Lulworth Cove’s spectacular beach, before heading back to the hotel to take afternoon tea in the hotel’s pretty gardens.

Getting to White Nothe Walking or biking takes about 1.5 hours and 45 minutes each way respectively from West Lulworth. By car, drive to the village of Ringstead, park and walk east along the SW Coast Path. Limestone Hotel www.limestonehotel.co.uk

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I cycled through thick fog on my way to the coast the morning this 27 image was made… However, when 27a I arrived, it was clear around the sea and I began to have second 27 thoughts as to whether I had made tx 5063 the correct location choice or not. Jake Pike

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A popular retreat during the 18th-century, Bath was built in the distinct local golden limestone, and the Royal Crescent is the city’s most iconic architectural gem. The sweeping terrace of 30 17 17a houses designed by John Wood the Younger, forms a dramatic arc that looks out onto a sloping lawn and the Royal Victoria Park below. The two central houses (number 15 and 16) are home to the plush Royal Crescent Hotel, an 17 5063 tx 5063 ideal stay for a weekend in the city. The Hotel can pack you a picnic, meaning you can stroll down to the pristine grass and spend a couple of hours eating, and drinking in the view, after which you should explore the city’s boutiques, landmarks and 16 16a countless cafés; Bea’s Vintage Tea Rooms is a good stop for a slice of cake.

Getting to the Royal Crescent Bath Spa is 1.5 hours from London Paddington

16 by train. From Bath Spa train station the Royal 5063 tx 5063 Crescent is less than 20 minutes away by foot, or 5 minutes in a taxi. The Royal Crescent Hotel www.royalcrescent.co.uk

Catbells Sunrise, 31 Cumbria, England 31a Photograph: Bart Heirweg, VisitBritain ‘You’re Invited’ Award (2013) 31 5063 tx 5063 Although many From waterside to fell top, the Lake District is loaded with awe-inspiring vistas, and the view photographers from atop of Catbells is a classic. Most routes had already done start at Hawse End, close to Keswick. Take a room in the town’s small but grand Stonegarth this before me, the 30

Hotel; and request a four-poster so as to sleep 30a deeply after all that Cumbrian air. summit of Catbells, The ascent up Catbells is short, steep and overlooking the a scramble in places, but once you hit the top famous Derwent you will be rewarded with a panoramic view 30 5063 tx 5063 of Derwent Water below and Skiddaw in the Water, was one distance. A six-kilometre loop takes just over two hours. Hitting the Catbells summit for of those viewpoints sunrise like photographer Bart Heirweg means you could be back for a hearty breakfast at I definitely wanted 29 Stonegarth, but if an early start doesn’t appeal, 29a to photograph Catbells makes a nice late afternoon tramp. when visiting Getting to Catbells Take the A5271 from Keswick to Hawse End the Lake District and it is a 15-minute drive. Forego the car for the 29 5063 tx 5063 Derwent Water Motor Launch to the same start for the first time. point. Stonegarth Hotel www.stonegarth.com Bart Heirweg

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As I pressed the shutter, a slim, almost elfin-like girl broke away from the Mystical Morning, main group and started The Dark Hedges, pointing, as if to mimic County Antrim, the surrounding branches. Northern Ireland Photograph: Bob McCallion, Bob McCallion Winner, Adult Living the view (2013)

The corridor of hedges is not what it seems. For a start it is a row of trees, planted by the Stuart family over 200 years ago, and was meant as an impressive welcome to guests. The trees have grown into a twisted corridor of branches, and with tales of hauntings, it feels suitably spooky during an early morning visit. Thousands of people walk their path each year so visit early to avoid crowds. Photographer Bob McCallion snapped this winning shot (left) as daylight pushed its way through the gnarly beech branches. The hedges are an hour’s drive from Belfast where we suggest a room at the Merchant Hotel, located in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter; the area is home to bars and restaurants. Try exploring Belfast by bike; you can peddle through mountains, city and coastline in a day.

Getting to the Dark Hedges The Dark Hedges are a one-hour drive from central Belfast via A44. Merchant Hotel www.themerchanthotel.com 12 12a 12 5063 tx 5063 11a 11 11 5063 tx 5063

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Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey, Wales Measuring up Photograph: Gary Waidson, Commended, Adult Classic View (2013) In the traditionally male- dominated and perfecting Ynys Llanddwyn is a tidal island, attached to the island of Anglesey, and it is here that world of true luxury Gary Waidson’s photographed Tŵr Mawr, bespoke outfitting, more a lighthouse that stands watch over the and more women are Menai Strait. Built in 1845, it is a curious shape as it mimics the windmill buildings emerging at the forefront found all over the area. of the industry. From It’s a mile-long stroll down the beach to reach Llanddwyn so pack snacks and make Savile Row to Clerkenwell, an afternoon of it, scaling the sand dunes we meet some of London’s and walking the trails. Unless you’re planning to stay under best in the field. canvas on Ynys Llanddwyn, spend a Writer couple of nights on Anglesey, exploring Josh Sims the beaches and taking in the island’s rich Photography wildlife. Staying at Ye Olde Bull’s Head Inn Ranald Mackechnie puts you in good company, Charles Dickens was a former guest. Rooms are modern with traditional Welsh touches, and the restaurant serves local fare.

Getting to Llanddwyn Island It is a 50-minute drive from Ye Olde Bull’s Head Inn via the A4080. Buses also run this route, but expect it to take at least 1.5 hours. You reach the trail that runs to the lighthouse. Ye Olde Bull’s Head Inn www.bullsheadinn.co.uk 15 15a 15 5063 tx 5063

Shortly after this, the last 14 14a of the visitors drifted away back to the mainland and I had the place pretty much 14 5063 tx 5063 to myself until morning. Gary Waidson

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here was a time when a women working on gentleman would consider Savile Row now than a visit to his tailor akin to visiting his club or his barber. It would be to enter ever before – in time a distinctly male bastion in which male affairs it won’t be a notable could be addressed, in which the discussion of such private matters as one’s thinning pate or inside leg subject anymore. measurement could be approached with sympathy Kathryn Sargent and without embarrassment. Heaven forfend that a woman should step inside such testosterone- pillared portals. Yet those days are slowly fading away, even on tailoring’s Mecca, Savile Row. The fact is that new generational attitudes in which the younger men now rediscovering bespoke tailoring want to do so in a contemporary environment, not that of their grandfathers, and cultural shifts are forcing change. And at some pace. Kathryn Sargent is, as her name suggests, a woman. And yet she was, before recently setting up an independent business of her own, head cutter at Gieves & Hawkes, one of the most prestigious positions in one of the most prestigious bespoke tailors on London’s Savile Row. “It certainly wasn’t easy to get that job though, because I think tailoring is just one of the last professions that women are still having to break into on that path to it becoming normal,” says Sargent. “I understood that most people on the Row were not used to having a woman put themselves forward to do the job, but they could see I was serious about it. Times were changing: people may have viewed plumbing or carpentry as typically male trades, but when I left college both interest in trades and viewing them as male-only industries already felt over. I’m sure many of the senior gentlemen I worked alongside would have preferred a young man as an apprentice but actually they were inundated by women applying. Some found this shocking, some just didn’t understand it, but others thought it was brilliant all the same.” Indeed, the tide may be turning thanks in large part to Sargent. When she was appointed to head cutter five years ago she was taken aback by the flurry of letters of support she received from members of the public. She said: “It’s really what made me understand how unusual a woman in my position was.” Sargent was not only the first woman to hold such a position on Savile Row, but has proven something of a catalyst, at least for the back-rooms: Huntsman has subsequently employed its first female cutter, Richard Anderson took on a female apprentice, while Anda Rowland, daughter of the Australian industrialist ‘Tiny’ Rowland, became vice chairman of Anderson & Sheppard. “In fact,” says Sargent, “there are more women working Kathryn Sargent on Savile Row now than ever before – in time it won’t Kathryn Sargent Bespoke Tailoring be a notable subject anymore.” www.kathrynsargent.com

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Up until the 1940s there were hundreds of firms operating in the Savile Row vicinity. By 1980 there were 50. Now there are perhaps 20.

does, of course, remain a very male world. If I tell someone I make shoes, there’s the assumption it’s three-inch heels. And that maleness is historic: bespoke shoemaking is hard, physical work, which is not something every woman wants. I have the hands of a navvy now. “But,” Carré adds, “women are increasingly drawn to shoemaking out of an entrepreneurial spirit, because of the appeal of the craft skills involved and because, well, they all love shoes. The industry has been very slow to recognise that welcoming women is going to be very important to sustain itself in the long run – if you’re looking for interested trainees, you can’t dismiss half the population.” Emma Willis, too, has seen attitudes change. The denizens of London’s shirt-making heartland looked askance at her when she launched her business. “People still are interested in the notion of being a woman in what is very much a man’s world and it’s definitely still a surprise for some people,” she says. “But, in fact, if our interns are anything to go by, it seems that more and more young women are interested in going into bespoke and the menswear business now.” That certainly should be welcomed: given a long lack of interest among the young to train in tailoring; the fact that most apprentices Change is afoot in this way off the Row, drop out before completing their training; with and in bespoke fields other than tailoring too: the old masters facing retirement; companies Shoemaking remains a very in shirt-making, for example, there is Jermyn facing the pressures of rental hikes and property Street’s Emma Willis, who, as one of the few developers; with a spell of economic gloom; and male world. If I tell someone remaining genuine English-made bespoke shirt- the gradual collapse of formal dress codes in I make shoes, there’s the makers and the only one run by a woman, has business, Savile Row’s world-class skills have recently expanded her Gloucester atelier and stared into the abyss more than once and for assumption it’s three-inch launched a new by-appointment store; and more than one reason. Up until the 1940s there heels. And that maleness is bespoke shoemaking has seen the success of were hundreds of firms operating in the Savile Carréducker, co-founded by Deborah Carré, ex of Row vicinity. By 1980 there were 50. Now there historic: bespoke shoemaking Lobb’s, maker of shoes under her own company are perhaps 20. Robert Baker would no doubt be name and for the customers of Gieves & Hawkes. dismayed. He was the man who created Piccadilly is hard, physical work, which “That ‘old boy’ feeling the Row once had which is itself derived from pickadil, the name is not something every woman has evidently changed even over the three years given to Elizabethan shirt collars. Baker arrived we’ve been working on it,” says Carré. “There in the area during the late 1500s to set up his first wants. I have the hands is, of course, still that very traditional male tailoring business, one so successful that he was customer, but there is also a new customer with appointed suit-maker to the court of James I. of a navvy now. Deborah Carré a more modern view of the world, who is more Anything that, half a millennium on, now gives Deborah Carré Carréducker Bespoke Shoes style-focused and couldn’t care less whether they this London landmark and globally-acclaimed www.carreducker.com are dealt with by a man or a woman. Shoemaking trade a lift is a good thing.

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But, aside from the welcome shift towards equality that these traditionally male bastions appear to be making, is there any new benefit? Superficially, at least, those independent tailoring businesses with women at the helm especially are tending to move the aesthetics of their premises as far as possible away from the style of the traditional wood-panelled tailoring shop. Sargent opened her new premises this summer, describing them as “more like a luxury hotel suite”. Similarly, while Anderson & Sheppard’s tailoring premises on Savile Row remains on the classic side, its nearby haberdashery shop where the bespoke business sends its customers to be fitted out with all the necessary dapper accoutrements, “clearly has a woman’s touch in place”, as its manager Audie Charles puts it. “That’s especially compared with the dark and dusty, very formal interior of many tailors’ premises, which sometimes feel like they haven’t changed since opening,” Charles adds. “It’s a lighter, warmer, less overtly business- like environment here. And, while I think there’s nothing wrong with tailors remaining very masculine places offering the kind of environment in which men can be men, much as pubs used to offer, it’s certainly good to see that kind of female influence. It’s not about flowers and frilly curtains, but about being more relaxed.”

And, while I think there’s nothing wrong with tailors remaining very masculine places offering the kind of environment in which men can be men, it’s certainly good to see that kind of female influence. It’s not about flowers and frilly curtains, but about being more relaxed. Audie Charles

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Yet the female touch arguably goes deeper. It’s a stereotype perhaps, but I do think When Susannah Hall launched her eponymous tailoring business, located in Clerkenwell, she women have a different view on shape and admits that many of the male customers that colour and a less predictable or hidebound came into her shop were surprised (despite the name over the door) to find a woman there. idea of how to put them together, which “And sometimes they still just don’t expect to especially appeals to older men who have find a woman with a tape measure,” she says. “Perhaps that’s not surprising. After all, Savile long been advised by other older men. Row is such a mannish club and although a few women have been ‘allowed’ in, my goodness Susannah Hall it’s taken a long time. It’s a slow process. Look how long men have been nurses for, but when you think of a nurse you automatically think of a woman.” But, she argues, not only does being a woman in the land of pinstripes, stiff collars and, often, even stiffer attitudes make her a kind of curiosity, it has allowed her to offer new perspectives. “It’s a stereotype perhaps, but I do think women have a different view on shape and colour and a less predictable or hidebound idea of how to put them together, which especially appeals to older men who have long been advised by other older men,” Hall notes. “Trends in tailoring actually change more than might be imagined, especially for the younger customer who doesn’t But what they want out and out classic. We’re making a lot of vintage-inspired suits now, for example. Without get with a woman Savile Row, of course, we wouldn’t be here. But the more women involved in tailoring in tailor is not exactly the capital, the wider its approach and appeal flirtation, but a bit can be.” Indeed, the rise of the woman tailor is not just of banter. about change to the benefit of male customers but Susannah Hall to women too. Perhaps one of the most positive upshots of more women working in the bespoke style trades is that more women are inclined to invest in bespoke themselves. Hall says that, although the number of female customers remain low relative to male customers, it has doubled over the last year alone. Sargent has seen her female client base grow too. According to Hall, more women are finding off-the-peg sizing inconsistent or becoming frustrated by an inability to find a replacement for a favourite designer jacket or trousers just a season later. And then there are those “feminine wiles”, as Hall puts it, with tongue slightly in cheek. Yes, a man can go to his tailor and, while the cutter discreetly notes that he has put on some weight and his shoulders have rounded a little more, talk to him about such dry matters as stock prices or golf clubs. “But what they get with a woman tailor is not exactly flirtation, but a bit of banter,” says Hall. “They have a sense that the woman genuinely wants to improve the way they look in a way other women will appreciate, Susannah Hall which is something men tend to welcome. There Susannah Hall Tailors is a sense that they are being advised, not sold www.susannahhall.com to. And they have some fun.”

22 – Homes & London Homes & London – 23 In an era in which high-tech architecture and modern construction methods point to the future for their inspiration, it is reassuring to see how classical influences are also being re-interpreted to create new residences for contemporary living. Writer Josh Sims

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The Georgian styleʼs vertical form is characteristically more open and natural light-filled while offering flexibility as to how the interior space is arranged. Ian Fenn, Partner, John Thompson & Partners 01 Hurlingham Gate townhouses 02 Hurlingham Walk apartments 03 Hurlingham Walk living room 04 Hurlingham Gate townhouse

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Ian Fenn is a partner with John Thompson & Partners, which designed the scheme comprising

COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER elegant townhouses. He notes how, for example, 01 the Georgian style's “vertical form”, as opposed to he British always talk about the the servant class would once have lived) all carry the more horizontal kind of the Art Deco period weather, or so the national caricature the eye upwards. And now these days work well for example, and due partly to larger windows, might suggest – cast your mind as a living space too. is characteristically more open and naturally back to the London ceremony at the It is something even a property developer of light-filled while offering flexibility as to how closure of the Beijing Olympics for ultra-modern residences might well lose sight of. the interior space is arranged. Facing onto the images of umbrellas in the rain. But St James has made it something of a signature street, the Georgian form also offers a mix of The British weather may also have its part to create buildings that are sympathetic to the private space to the rear and public space to the to play in influencing architectural design. surroundings – even if the style vernacular may front, which foster a sense of community, again Lee Fogarty an architect himself, who be more yesteryear traditional than tomorrow’s a characteristically British architectural touch, was on the team that designed the apartment world. That comes from St James’ appreciation of as our cityʼs rows of terracing suggest. buildings at St James’ Hurlingham Walk and the the fact that the traditional is still with us because “The result of Brewery Gate is a fairly townhouses at the adjacent Hurlingham Gate in it still resonates. traditional form of architecture with updated Fulham, cites the London climate being a factor. Traditional influences shouldn’t compromise elements,” says Fenn. “That, importantly, marries “There's a preference for clean lines and less detail the living experience however. Using Hurlingham well with the local setting, but also chimes in with perhaps because that is what stays clean longest Walk as an example, Fogarty cites the need to put feedback from the local community which drives in conditions of rain and smog,” he says. “It's just balconies on a Georgian-style architecture that consensus for a scheme. Itʼs true that the British a theory...” traditionally never would have had balconies. might typically be seen as a somewhat restrained But it seems to holds true. The architecture of The simple solution was to clad the balconies as and polite people and some architecture London is essentially classical – architects of the one would a classical portico. “This means they reflects that.ˮ Georgian period, and to some extent successive don't just look bolted on,” he explains. “In fact, The adjacent St James’ Brewery Wharf takes architects of the Victorian period, were embracing by working through such aspects the classical another well-known type of London building – the ideals of ancient Roman and Greek ‘orders’ – a form becomes more articulated and you actually the warehouse – and updates it for 21st-century set of rules and principles for designing buildings contribute to its evolution.” living. As Fenn explains, St James’ choice of this each using a different style of column – in London The neighbouring new townhouses at type of building is all the more apt, given the it is that of the Doric and Ionic columns which Hurlingham Gate feature modern interior design association of its location, Twickenham, with the hold great presence. From these ancient design and features within an elegant façade, in keeping water. The buildingʼs name sits proudly at its top, principles proportion and balance, especially with the architecture in Fulham, one of London’s the balconies are aligned like loading bays and the those of the Georgian spin, are also important; quintessential residential areas. overall form suggests heaviness and permanence. the celebration of the entrance at ground level, The Georgian influence is also evident “People respond well to that when looking for a the more grand rooms in the middle and the at Brewery Gate, which St James is developing home,” says Fenn. “There is a sense of heritage COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER smaller windows of the uppermost floor (where in Twickenham. IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER there – one that architects can build on.” 02 04 26 – Homes & London Homes & London – 27 The British issue Modern classics

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Indeed, as much as it can be defined, it’s what creates a sense of the solid that really constitutes British architecture. And this is less to do with shape or form as a respect for materials as Hidden reflected in these latest St James developments. This respect is chiefly for so-called London brick, Attractions traditionally made from the local London clay subsoil since the 19th-century. “That is what creates the local vernacular,” London is a city like says Fogarty, “because there was always the no other, vast and commercial questions of how far you can transport

COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER versatile, with an materials. Itʼs why so many buildings in the city 01 are made from London brick, and the reason amazing and often being, since the 17th-century, only the more grand quirky history that public buildings were made from Portland stone (limestone), which had to be moved from Dorset.” goes back more than And by grand he means prime examples like St 2,000 years. Homes Paulʼs Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. Yes, Fenn notes, many major property & London goes beyond developers tend to like to encase everything the tourist hot spots in steel and glass, but, as St James recognises, sometimes it is a rather more obviously old- to bring you three fashioned material that still works best, that is more unusual and still decidedly modern in their functionality: “They weather well, in the way that rendering or hidden attractions, timber cladding doesnʼt, and home buyers can offering the curious see that,” he says. “You can look at a Victorian building and often itʼs a good as the day it was visitor a truly unique built, which suggests good reason to return to the experience. same materials.” Writer Rebecca Hattersley But are architects – typically excited by Photography Jon Stevens the prospects of designing more obviously progressive, contemporary buildings – less excited by the prospect of having to design within a period-inflected style and substance? Fogarty argues not. Of course, there is something safe in COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER designing within a familiar aesthetic; “and one 02 reason people in the UK tend to like classical architecture is precisely because of its familiarity,” explains Fogarty, “it has developed over centuries and so has this suggestion of quality, because itʼs Many major property developers tend to been around for such a long time. After all, after 300 years this classical form of architecture is like to encase everything in steel and glass, not going anywhere soon.” But the challenge for but, as St James recognises, sometimes it architecture lies in taking those familiar forms The Horniman Museum’s and updating them with touches through which is a rather more obviously old-fashioned Centenary Gallery Indian they become more suitable for contemporary Caste Head collection from living – something St James prides itself on material that still works best. Jaipur, bought by Frederick keeping front of mind. Ian Fenn Horniman in 1984 28 – Homes & London Homes & London – 29 The British issue Hidden attractions 01 Horniman Museum Founded in 1901 is this fascinating and surprising anthropological 02 Guildhall Art Gallery 02 museum, with over & Roman Amphitheatre a quarter of a million specimens on display. Step into the ruins 01 02 In South London’s Forest Hill is a striking Art of London’s Roman Nouveau building designed by Charles Harrison 01 Townsend to house an eclectic collection of amphitheatre, lost curiosities started in the late 1800s by English for centuries. tea merchant Frederick John Horniman. On the 03 ground floor is a balconied natural history gallery In 1988 archaeologists uncovered the remains of stuffed animals, fossils, skulls and bones. The of a Roman amphitheatre dating back to AD70. stages of evolution of man and beast are artfully This amazing underground discovery might documented in wooden cases with pastel blue, never have happened were it not for a fire forty- green and pink backgrounds. Tumbling badgers seven years earlier during the Second World and foraging birds are suspended in undergrowth War, which almost entirely destroyed the and snow-sprinkled moorland. The King Tyrant Guildhall Art Gallery first built in 1855 to display Bird, with its elaborate feather headdress, 03 the City of London Corporation’s growing art is the showstopper in a display of colourful 01 Sir John Everett collection. In 1985 the city decided to redevelop perching birds. Millais, 'My Second 01 The museum building the site and add a new gallery on its lower levels, The Centenary Gallery on the lower ground Sermon', 1864 hence the historical find. The art gallery is now and clock tower 02 Guildhall Art floor tells the story of the Horniman’s collections home to around 250 artworks, including three 02 Victorian Gallery exterior over the last 100 years. Strange and curious of the principal Pre-Raphaelite artists: Holman Conservatory roof 03 Collection of objects brought back to the museum include 03 One of the many artwork inside Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett a death dance mask, exotic butterflies in bell stuffed tropical birds the gallery Millais. There is also a selection of London jars, old English wine bottles dredged up from on display 04 Remains of paintings, documenting the city’s history from the River Thames and a 17th-century torture 04 The Natural History London’s Roman the 17th-century onwards. A free guided tour chair. The Music Gallery houses over 1,300 Gallery amphitheatre is highly recommended, with interesting facts 05 Large carnival mask musical instruments, with trumpets, bugles and on display weaved into the enthusiastic talk, such as how from Cyprus, as part fiddles stretching the back wall and showing the of the Object in Focus Pre-Raphaelite artists often included symbolic technological evolution of European woodwind series (temporary elements in their work, with a honeysuckle and and brass instruments from the 18th-century display) rose, like those seen in Rossetti’s La Ghirlandata, to the present day. In the museum’s basement 06 Horniman’s highly being a symbol of a deep love affair. is also the highly acclaimed Aquarium, with 15 acclaimed Aquarium Below the art gallery is the subterranean exhibits showcasing aquatic environments from 04 amphitheatre, where visitors can stand on the around the globe, from a Fijian reef to a British original ground floor of Roman Londinium, eight rock pool. Sit and wonder at the translucent metres below the tranquil Guildhall Yard where beauty of the moon jellyfish, drifting through city workers eat their lunch. Remains include the water. two chambers, possibly used as shrines, or for Surrounding the museum is 16 acres of holding animals before their release into the landscaped gardens. Highlights include a arena, where 6,000 spectators would be baying charming Dye Garden in the 1936 Arts and for bloodshed. Sprinting gladiators and fallen Crafts style, grouped according to the colour of criminals are brought back to life in a projection the dye produced, a Food Garden explaining the of fluorescent green light. When departing global origins of much of the food we eat in the Guildhall Yard, look out for the outline of the UK today, and a spectacular view of the London arena shown with black inlaid stone in the paving, skyline from inside the restored bandstand. illustrating the extent of the amphitheatre.

Nearest tube, Forest Hill. Nearest tube: Bank, Moorgate. 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ. Guildhall Yard, off Gresham Street, EC2V 5AE. Open daily 10.30am – 5.30pm. Open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Free entry, charge for aquarium. Sunday noon – 4pm. Free entry. 05 06 04 30 – Homes & London Homes & London – 31 The British issue Hidden attractions 03 Royal Courts of Justice Vast, impressive and intriguing, this Grade I listed building is one of the last great works of gothic revival architecture in England. inspiring extraordinary experiences

On the Strand, by Fleet Street, stands the Royal Courts of Justice. Commonly called the Law Courts, these are Britain’s main civil courts, accommodating both the High Court and Court 01 of Appeal. Until around 1840 there were many separate courts spread about London, so it was decided to build a central courthouse to house all the courts under one roof. The site, at the time a slum occupied by more than 4,000 people, was purchased for £1 million, the equivalent of about £55 million in today’s money, and the people subsequently cleared out. George Edmund Street was appointed the sole architect for the custom-built courthouse, competing with 11 other architects, including Sir Charles Barry, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament. The work was 40 years in the planning, but finally, in 1873, building work commenced. The Royal Courts were officially opened in 1882 by Queen Victoria. Street was a deeply religious man, and 02 upon passing through the iron gates and carved porches and into the 80 feet high Great Hall, one might be entering a cathedral, complete with marble mosaic flooring and stained glass windows ornamented with the coats of arms of previous Lord Chancellors. Thirty-five million Portland stone bricks make up the building and more than 3.5 miles of corridor. There is an elegant galleried Gothic room called The Bear Garden, supposedly named by Queen Victoria who remarked that the bickering barristers sounded like a “garden full of bears”. Visitors are permitted to “go to court” and get a glimpse of the wrongdoer in the dock, with all courtrooms open to the public, subject to restrictions depending on the nature of the case. Don’t forget to nod your head towards the judge as a sign of respect. So iconic is the Royal Courts, it is sometimes used in TV dramas as the location of the Central Criminal Court, which actually sits 01 The Royal Courts of at the Old Bailey, half a mile to the east. Justice exterior at night 02 Details of the Temple Nearest tube, Temple. Bar monument outside Strand, WC2A 2LL. the Royal Courts of Open daily 9am – 4.30pm. Justice, a dragon and Free entry, £10 for guided tours. Queen Victoria. FOR RESERVATIONS CONTACT: +44 (0)20 7107 8830 32 – Homes & London OR EMAIL [email protected] MAYBOURNE.COM

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In a world seemingly obsessed by celebrity culture, it’s become easy to ignore the ephemeral product endorsements of those who appear on our TV screens. However, there’s one endorsement with greater lineage and substance that’s hard to overlook – that of the Royal Family. We look at what it takes to earn a crest and what it can mean for a business. Writer Josh Sims – Illustration Georgina Luck

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ou might think of it as one of the biggest brands around. Its CEO is Roberts Radio Ltd one of the longest serving in business. Two warrants held. Suppliers and The deputy chairman of the board is manufacturers of radios and televisions feted as one of the best-dressed men inY town. And the latest person to join the firm has the marketing department in paroxysms of joy with her ability to grace the front pages with her common touch and high street fashion sense. Small wonder then that the company’s striking logos, comprising perhaps dramatic rampant lions or a flourish of By appointment to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II By appointment to H.R.H. Prince of Wales By appointment to H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh feathers – aka Royal Warrants, currently granted by Queen Elizabeth II, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh to businesses who have supplied them China, one of the harder markets to crack, is, in with products or services for at least five successive fact, also where having a warrant plays well for the years – are in hot demand. Look carefully, especially if you happen to be shopping in the likes of Mayfair, and least expected of reasons: the warrant logos are you will see these Buckingham badges on everything from tea to TVs, from tailors to perfumes. recognisable when the western lettering of many So in demand are they, in fact, that Ian brands is often not. McLean spent two weeks writing a 100-page document explaining why his company – knitwear manufacturer John Smedley, one of the world’s oldest – should be granted a warrant by the Queen, who has worn its products for many years. “Though I would have to kill you if I told you exactly what,” says McLean. “There’s a whole book of rules about having a warrant and the key one is that holders are not allowed to reveal what they supply. Some things are quite close and personal to the royal individual. The application was a funny process because it was in parts open and in parts opaque – they retain the right to say yes or no without giving reasons, for example. Then you wait six months and you get a letter.” Last year that letter came and, for the first time in its 230-year history, and despite having been worn by various royals since the 1930s, John Smedley was granted its first warrant. “I don’t know why we didn’t apply for one before really,” says McLean, “but it’s already working out well. It’s been good for internal morale – it’s a pat on the back for everyone who works here, who contributes to the company’s success, and while it’s very hard to say if it adds anything to the bottom line, it’s certainly been great for our export markets. The likes of the US and Japan get very excited about it. They love what royal approval suggests.” Indeed, the Royal Warrant Holders’ Association The John Smedley 2014 Spring/Summer – the trade body for those companies with a warrant, collection for the first time displayed the Queen’s ‘By founded in 1840 – has in recent years made more Waitrose Ltd Appointment To’ crest on its swing-tags, packaging direct efforts to promote British royal warrant Two warrants held. Grocers and wine and letterheads. “But not on our emails,” McLean holders in foreign markets through the creation of & spirit merchants adds. “We’re not allowed to put it there – don’t ask various kinds of trade commissions; China, one of me why.” the harder markets to crack, is, in fact, also where Clearly the Royal Warrant works if you sell your having a warrant plays well for the least expected of merchandise abroad where, perhaps, a less day- reasons: the warrant logos are recognisable when to-day coverage of our monarchy’s highs and lows the western lettering of many brands is often not. has not been allowed to taint its standing. It is, says Certainly the arrangement also works for the Danny Brown, chief operating officer of rival knitwear royal household: while the relationship between company Wolsey – also with a warrant from the warrant bestower and warrant holder is a strictly Queen – “an honour, and one that speaks of quality, non-commercial one, reading between the lines it and most of all of the pride we have in our heritage Hatchards can be assumed that the royals often get a good deal Three warrants held. and Britishness – you don’t get much more of that on price. But does the warrant work for the British Booksellers than in the backing of the royal family.” consumer? Does it have any relevance within the

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Launer London Ltd One warrant held. Manufacturers of UK itself, and in the 21st-century – when kowtowing amount cancelled, normally due to closure of the handbags and to those of merely fortunate birth is much less in business – those that do hold a warrant really want leather goods vogue than was the case with previous generations? to keep it. Indeed, there is the rare if nonetheless Richard Peck, the Royal Warrant Holders’ embarrassing possibility of losing it, as Harrods did, Association’s secretary, concedes that it is an just maybe because its then owner made one too important question. “The vast majority of people many claims of conspiracy surrounding Princess (in the UK), when asked the question, see the Diana’s death. royal warrant as being old-fashioned, as generally Some are less fazed by this possible prospect: being for luxury companies – so suggesting that Jim Walker, of the family behind Walkers the companies that hold a warrant make rather Shortbread, for example, has pointed out that while expensive products – and of no relevance at all,” he it’s “nice” for the maker of the Queen’s oatcake of concedes. “And the public’s standpoint is perfectly choice to have a warrant, the company is so well- understandable – the fact is that we need to get out established that losing it “wouldn’t have much into the public domain more to explain why the impact” – and Walker says this as a recipient of the warrant does have value, especially to the British CBE and three-time winner of the Queen’s Award business infrastructure.” for Export. But others are sufficiently cowed by the Certainly there are, he suggests, misconceptions notion that even discussing holding the warrant is surrounding the warrants. For example, some 80% not something they are prepared to do. Certainly it of them are held by makers of everyday products is hard – nay, impossible, perhaps even treasonable in wide use by everyday people – from cereals – to get a Royal Warrant holder to say a bad thing to electronics. Some are even held by companies about having it. most have probably never heard of, the likes of “A warrant holder has to keep supplying what The royals only want what is best for their Greenfields, for instance, which converts waste is, after all, quite a demanding buyer,” says Peck. business. That encourages innovation, in product, vegetable oil into bio-fuel. “Like the buyer in any business, the royals only want The diversity of companies holding a warrant what is best for their business. That encourages customer service and so on. The warrant is a real is much like the diversity of companies whose innovation, in product, customer service and so incitement for a company to do its best. products and services might be used in any home – on. The warrant is a real incitement for a company Richard Peck, Royal Warrant Holdersʼ Associationʼs secretary from Mr. Steeds (dry cleaners) to Heat Connection to do its best.” Indeed, the criteria set by the royal (ventilation system suppliers), Jaguar (cars) to household are only getting more exacting. Some 15 Rokill (pest control), Roberts (radios) to Staples years ago, for example, Prince Charles applied a new (beds) and Judge’s Choice (pet food), along with raft of sustainability and ethical business standards Tate & Lyle Cadbury’s, Weetabix and Shepherd Neame beer. to any company holding or hoping to hold his Sugars One warrant There are hints of glamour, but much of the current warrant; three years ago these were applied across held. Sugar roster reads like the Windsor family shopping list at all warrants. refiners Waitrose – which also happens to hold a warrant. “That means there is much greater scrutiny of And while there are giants among them – the likes companies’ behaviour now, not just of its products of Sony or Samsung, for example – some 70% of but its processes and supply chains,” explains the companies holding warrants tend to be small to Peck. “That probably makes it much harder to get medium-sized enterprises. “Only a tiny proportion a warrant today than it was just a few years ago, but are in the luxury world,” Peck says. that is good. If a warrant comes with a packet of Furthermore, he argues, the warrant is good cornflakes – and Kellogg’s has a warrant – then it for the businesses that hold them, not least has less credibility.” thanks to projects like the association’s new Keeping a warrant is no easy task either – every apprenticeship scheme, established this year by its year the warrant holder must stump up a small sister organisation, the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship administrative cost and submit figures to prove they Trust, which aims to do much in schools to help continue to supply their grantor with products, and future employees understand the often undersold every five years must apply to have their warrant opportunities in industry. “Of course, at its simplest re-affirmed. Gun maker Purdey, for example, may the warrant is a mark of quality: what it says is, ‘if have been granted its first royal warrant by Queen it’s good enough for the royal family, then it’s good Loake Bros Ltd Victoria, now holding warrants with the Prince of enough for us’,” says Peck. But, more importantly One warrant held. Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, but this month, perhaps, it is a spur to betterment that is ultimately Manufacturer of after careful documenting of its activities over the to all consumers’ advantage. men’s footwear last five years, once again had to put in its application Given that some 40% of companies that apply for for renewal. a warrant don’t get one – with only around 40 new “One always has one’s fingers crossed,” jokes warrants issued each year, with roughly the same Nigel Beaumont, Purdey’s chairman and its warrant

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holder. “It is worth the effort though: it is great to have this endorsement over your door, even if it’s hard to directly measure the commercial benefit. Besides which, one doesn’t use it as a deliberate sales lever and would probably be found out if one did use it that way. But here the warrant is known and accepted as something cherished, at least among our clientele.” Of course, Purdey’s clientele – given the price and purpose of its main product – is a very particular, perhaps rather elite one. But what of the consumerist hoi polloi? Is it ever likely to reappraise its assessment of this royal stamp of approval and pay it any more attention? Ian McLean argues that the future for the warrant could, in fact, prove a bright one for precisely the same reason that the royal family itself is enjoying a period of positive review: the rise of a new generation. “Some markets will always be more interested in the royal warrant than others, but I think we can expect to see more enthusiasm for it in the UK too. Just look at the excitement surrounding Kate and Prince William and, more recently, Prince George – they have engaged the public imagination again. Once William has sufficiently established his own household to be given a warrant to grant himself, we might see a new wave of interest in it from consumers of their generation. The royals don’t court the media in the same way as celebrities do, but clearly they have some aspirational appeal.” Besides which, celebrities come and celebrities go. Few companies with warrants would publicly object to having, say, David Beckham known to buy their products, but then David Beckham will – eventually, perhaps – fade from the limelight. In contrast, the Royal Family – less its warrant- bestowing individuals as its place as an historic British institution – remains as a national focal point and, for some, as a touchstone of timeless taste. That alone might make that special, hard-won logo on your letterhead something to hold dear.

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42 – Homes & London Homes & London – 43 Holding the national collection of British art, with a recently refurbished interior and rehung collection in chronological order, Tate Britain feels like new. Homes & London’s Rebecca Hattersley takes a walk anticlockwise through 500 years of art’s history. Writer Rebecca Hattersley

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By placing works made within a couple Committee to paint an underground bomb of decades of one another together, unlikely store in Staffordshire. Despite being declined Tate Britain has certainly juxtapositions have taken effect. An example for being too innovative, the paintings are now emerged from the shadow of of how quite different things can happen at the considered amongst the finest of his work. It is same time is seen in room 1840. John Martin’s also interesting to follow the developing work n 2013, a shiny new Tate Britain was its playful and energetic sibling vast and apocalyptic ‘The Great Day of His of Lucian Freud who, having achieved artistic unveiled to the public, marking a significant downstream, Tate Modern; Wrath’ hangs nearby the much smaller ‘Going recognition from a young age, appears four times momentI for the Grade II listed Millbank to the Ball (San Martino)’ by JMW Turner, throughout the gallery beginning in 1947 and building, only a short walk from St James’ and it has done so gracefully, sky and water melting in delicate golden light. ending in 1996. I conclude the walk-through in regeneration area on Albert Embankment. The Frederic Leighton’s statue ‘An Athlete Wrestling room 2000, with a four-minute video by Angus makeover began in the spring, with a rehanging enlivened by natural light and with a Python’ is displayed beneath Théodore Fairhurst, ‘Cheap and Ill Fitting Gorilla Suit’. The of the permanent collection in a continuous, Roussel’s painting ‘The Reading Girl’ in an video shows the artist, who committed suicide at 01 fluid coherence. chronological display, replacing the thematic interplay between painting and sculpture – the the age of 41, breaking free from the confines of hang introduced in 2000. Then came the creamy nude reclined with a book in contrast to the costume, with the gorilla as a metaphor for architectural changes by Caruso St John. the gallant bronze male. Philip Wilson Steer’s the ‘everyman’. Adjacent to the video is a display I arrive at the gallery on a Saturday morning ‘The Swiss Alps at the Earl’s Court Exhibition’ of seashells, ‘Forms Without Life’, by Fairhurst’s in early June, having hurried over Vauxhall with its charming surface pattern and nocturnal friend, Damien Hirst. I award Tate Britain a final Bridge in an unexpected downpour. You have hues of blue, green and mauve has been and decisive tick in approval of this poignant to love the perplexities of the British weather. sensitively displayed at eye-level so as not to be pairing, and of the chronology employed. Entry from the original riverside steps leads me overshadowed by John William Waterhouse’s Branching off from the main circuit are the under the heraldic carved lions and unicorns of ‘The Lady of Shalott’. BP Spotlights, a series of regularly changing the neoclassical portico, and into the lobby. The 03 ©Helene Binet The galleries of the 1900s are vocal displays drawn from the permanent collection, ample light is immediate. When visiting high- with colour and shifting cultural priorities. providing more in-depth information on a profile public galleries there is so often a shadowy Mark Gertler’s ‘Merry-Go-Round’ and David specific artist, period or theme. Iconic British welcome, a definite sense of stepping inside. Yet Bomberg’s ‘The Mud Bath’ are highly evocative artists JMW Turner and Henry Moore each have entering the reworked Tate Britain is awakening. of the casualties of the First World War. their own allocated space, befitting their strong The throngs of visitors studying maps, seemingly The rebirth of the UK’s Bomberg’s work is seen again in room 1940, with relationship with Tate Britain. Moore, twice overwhelmed by the endless corridors and where most beautiful and two paintings entitled ‘Bomb Store’. Bomberg a Tate trustee, occupies two galleries on the to begin, are absent. Instead, a pleasing number was an artist who struggled to gain an audience main floor – the only permanent display of the of equally rain-soaked individuals are expelling engaging art gallery. for his work; but finally, during the Second sculptor in the capital. The collection contains waterproof jackets, and a friendly guard smiles World War, and nearing the end of his career, he a number of Moore’s key post-war sculptures, at me in greeting. was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory most notably the plaster for ‘Reclining Figure’, I move through the lobby to where further highlights of the £45 million transformation unfurl: a dramatic domed rotunda, from which Top ten works a sweeping marble staircase leads to the newly from the BP opened Djanogly café. I resist the urge to descend: art first and then refreshments. The Walk through interior is architecturally diverse, but somehow British Art manages to hang together naturally: multiple Corinthian columns that draw the eye up to the glass dome, the surface of monochrome terrazzo that recalls the original floor, the art deco scalloping and the modernist curves of the staircase’s stainless steel frame. Occupying the rotunda’s alcoves are four distinct sculptures, from a flute-playing shepherd to a woman that looks more like a predatory insect. By reconciling old and new, and remodelling and renovating core visitor areas with a better use of light and 1545 c.1620-5 c.1750 1782 1812 space, the gallery has been brought to a 21st A Man in a Black Cap Cookmaid with Still Life An Arch of Westminster Bridge Giovanna Baccelli Lady Macbeth Seizing century standard. This portrait by John Bettes is of Vegetables and Fruit Samuel Scott’s painting is Thomas Gainsborough, the Daggers It feels only right to start my journey at currently the earliest piece in the A colourful market scene of symbolic of the large-scale considered among the greatest Based on a scene from Tate collection, and a significant flowers and fruit is not a usual urban expansion in 18th-century painters of his day, has captured Shakespeare’s tragedy, this oil the beginning, and so I walk to the back of the work in the study of British art. subject for British artists of the London and the development the Italian ballerina’s elegant by Henry Fuseli is as equally building through the Duveen galleries and work The artist’s name and nationality 17th-century. It is thought that of the ‘West End’. This work poise in movement, her slender dark and powerful as the anticlockwise, starting in the 16th century. The are inscribed on the back, a very the artist Sir Nathaniel Bacon celebrates an important event foot extended in its slipper. play, illustrating the corrosive BP Walk through British Art provides a journey rare detail on British paintings may have seen similar work in the history of London. The charming ruffles and bows effects of evil in the pursuit of 02 of this period. Originally the in the Low Countries (coastal of her elaborate costume, and power. Fuseli was drawn to the of Tate Britain’s unparalleled collection from 01 Tate Britain background would have been regions of north western Europe) her alluring smile and soft cruel and erotic elements in 1545 to the present day, with the gallery layout building blue, but long exposure to light and brought the idea back with features, are testament to the Shakespeare’s work, evidenced reconfigured to create a circuit around its outer 02 Lower Level has changed it to brown. him. What is perhaps more dancer’s celebrity status in the in the ghostly figure of the perimeter. Reiterating the permanency of the Rotunda typically British are the ripe male-dominated world of 18th- tyrannical Macbeth clutching melons and bountiful produce redisplay are the large gold dates set into the 03 Principal Level century ballet. the bloody daggers. surrounding the cookmaid, Rotunda floor, already well trodden. echoing her voluptuousness. ©Helene Binet

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commissioned by the Arts Council for the the ambiguities of the creative mind as opposed Festival of Britain in 1951. The abstract bronze to textbook assumptions. was a celebration of Britain’s recovery following A case could be made for more detailed the war. I walk amongst Moore’s recumbent cultural context beside each work. The giants with respect for both their symbolic explanatory labels reveal only the name of By placing works representation and ambitious scale. The Clore the artist, the title of the piece and the year Gallery is dedicated to JMW Turner and houses it was made. But the revived Tate Britain made within a the artist’s bequest to the nation, and includes a is an intelligent space that plays to British couple of decades small room of the artist’s figures – an alternative art’s strength – its eclecticism. Visitors are The to the tumultuous seas and Venetian landscapes encouraged to make their own connections of one another that I would typically associate with the artist. and narratives. What is the significance of the together, unlikely I return to the rotunda satisfied that nothing green skin of the women in Frances Hodgkins’ has been missed, except, that is, for a trip to the ‘Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of juxtapositions have basement café and to reflect on my morning’s Flowers’ – a defiant flounce in the face of war, activity. Tate Britain has certainly emerged or an individualistic and quirky use of colour for taken effect. from the shadow of its playful and energetic art’s sake? The pictures are, as they should be, sibling downstream, Tate Modern; and it has the primary source of data. Diary done so gracefully, enlivened by natural light Subsequent phases of the Tate Britain project and fluid coherence. The walk-through is a will be implemented after 2014 and will continue Our pick of the quiet, contemplative experience: one continuous over the next 20 years, restoring the southwest collection, without division. The chronological quadrant and seeing a major new extension of most anticipated presentation offers a more neutral view of the the adjacent Queen Alexandra Military Hospital events taking range of art produced at any one time. As a site, accommodating a larger proportion of Tate’s visitor you naturally come into contact with less- historic, modern and contemporary collections place across the familiar works, as well as the well-known, with a of art. I will be returning soon to view the next capital this winter. more rounded appreciation for the surprises that instalment of the rebirth of the UK’s most a particular period in art history can throw up: beautiful and engaging art gallery. Elvis Costello BluesFest 26 – 31 Oct Royal Albert Hall

1885-6 1914 1935 1947 1967-8 Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose The Mud Bath 1935 (white relief) Girl with a Kitten Primrose Hill John Singer Sargent was David Bomberg was a Ben Nicholson, along with The portrait of his first The park at Primrose Hill able to work for only a few Jewish artist living in the east his second wife Barbara wife, Kathleen Garman, is in north London has been minutes each evening on his end of London. This scene Hepworth, was a leading characteristic of Lucian one of Frank Auerbach's impressionist-style painting, is based on the steam baths figure in the international Freud’s early style of principal subjects. It was when the mauvish light of of Brick Lane at the time abstract movement. The portraiture, with an painted during a long, dusk was exactly right to of the First World War. The purity and calm composition unsentimental sharpness hot summer, the bright capture the magic of the leaping forms are thought to of his first white relief and washed-out use colours and shadows in softly glowing Chinese represent people. On close provided an aesthetic model of colour. Freud later the foreground suggesting lanterns among the trees inspection of the painting, a for possible social harmony abandoned the controlled sunlight. The park's changing and lilies. The portrait was mottled surface can be seen. in defiance of the growing relationship between artist appearance influenced the painted over two months In 1914, the painting was nationalism engulfing and subject and began development of the painting, of autumn evenings in 1885, hung on the outside of the Europe at the time. to paint in a looser, which was continually and then again in late 1886. Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, and viscous style. scraped back and repainted. subsequently weathered by the elements. 48 – Homes & London Royal Academy ofArts Dennis Hopper Until 19Oct

Paul Newman, 1964. © Dennis Hopper, courtesy The Hopper Art Trust Moscow HouseofPhotography Museum © MultimediaArtMuseum,Moscow/ © DennisHopper, courtesy ofThe HopperArtTrust www.royalacademy.org.uk Dennis Hopper. actor andphotographer by thelensofAmerican some ofthesubjectsframed Harlem street scenes are just Hell’s Angels,hippiesand Royal Academy ofArts Dennis Hopper Until 19Oct www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk of artists. works from adiverse range propaganda andavant-garde photography across Soviet experiments inRussian Chart earlycolour Photographers’ Gallery Colour Photography Primrose: Russian Until 19Oct October Shopping Fashion Museum Events Food &Drink Sport Visual arts P erformance arts

Internal indicative CGI. ©2014 SmiljanRadicStudio Image courtesy oftheSaatchi Gallery, London © Rafael Gómezbarros, 2013. www.tate.org.uk and 1917. Russian revolutions of1905 art anditsrelationship to the the Russian painter’s abstract almost 25years examines of Kazemir Malevich for The first majorretrospective Tate Modern Malevich Until 26Oct www.serpentinegalleries.org Friday nights. performances onselected which housesacaféand the 14thtemporary pavilion Smiljan Radichasdesigned at night,Chileanarchitect Resembling ashellthat glows Kensington Gardens Serpentine Pavilion 2014 Until 19Oct www.saatchigallery.com Latin America. artists from Africa and works by 16contemporary exhibition, whichspans visitors to thiseclectic Gómezbarros welcome by Colombian artist Rafael Sculptures ofoversized ants Saatchi Gallery Africa andLatin America Pangaea: New Artfrom Until 2Nov

www.royalacademy.org.uk of contemporary art”. described as“a colossus German artist whohasbeen of AnselmKiefer, the retrospective ofthework The UK'sfirst major Royal Academy ofArts Anselm Kiefer Until 14Dec www.nationaltrust.org.uk architect ErnöGoldfinger. and designedby, pioneering ground-breaking homeof, of 2Willow Road –the to thefurniture andfittings has beencreated inresponse artist Ryan Gander, which new work from leadingBritish An exhibition that showcases Hampstead 1TH NW3 2 Willow Road, The Artists Have Keys Ryan Gander: Until 2Nov www.oldvictheatre.com devastating Greek tragedy. play theleadinSophocles’ Watch Kristin Scott Thomas The OldVic Electra Until 20Dec

© National MaritimeMuseum,London © The Trustees oftheBritishMuseum www.britishmuseum.org run by theMingdynasty. years when Chinawas in China’s history: the Celebrate agoldenage British Museum Changed China Ming: 50Years that Until 5Jan www.tate.org.uk now inits30thyear. contemporary artprize, UK’s most prestigious artists shortlisted for the Explore work by thefour Tate Britain Turner Prize Until 4Jan www.rmg.co.uk best-known luminaries. inventions by steampunk’s at anexhibition ofeccentric century innovation collide See science fictionand18th- Greenwich Royal Observatory, Longitude Punk’d Until 4Jan Homes & London–51 The Diary

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1 - 4 Oct Grupo Corpo Sadler's Wells Brazil’s internationally acclaimed dance company Grupo Corpo returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells with a show combining the precision of classical ballet and the sensuality and passion of Latin dance rhythms filling the stage © National Portrait Gallery, London with unmatched energy 8 – 27 Oct and excitement. Until 11 Jan London Restaurant Festival Constable: The Making www.danceconsortium.com Various venues Moulène Dane of a Master Embark on a culinary odyssey 15 – 18 Oct Victoria & Albert Museum taking in street food, star Frieze Art Fair Admire paintings, oil sketches 6 – 12 Oct restaurants and the most Regent's Park and engravings by Britain’s London Cocktail Week imaginative menus London's Art enthusiasts, gallerists best-loved landscape painter. Various venues chefs have to offer. and buyers converge at this www.vam.ac.uk impressive contemporary Enjoy tasting sessions, www.londonrestaurantfestival.com 17 – 19 Oct masterclasses and pop-up art fair, installed in a large The Chocolate Show events at more than 100 marquee in Regent's Park. Olympia West Until 25 Jan of the capital's cocktail bars. www.friezelondon.com The world’s largest chocolate Late Turner: www.londoncocktailweek.com show brings together Painting Set Free international chocolatiers Tate Britain and pastry chefs for tastings, 2 Oct – 1 Nov A celebration of JMW demonstrations and more. The Girl of the Turner’s energetic – but www.salonduchocolat.co.uk Golden West often misunderstood – later London Coliseum 9 Oct – 29 Nov work, including exquisite Our Town Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni - The English National Opera's Lucretia Moroni Collection, Bergamo. watercolours of a fire at the Photography: Marco Mazzoleni first production of Puccini's Almeida Theatre Tower of London. "American" opera takes Award-winning American 25 Oct – 25 Jan Image courtesy of the artist and www.tate.org.uk director David Cromer Giovanni Battista Moroni Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles viewers on a trip back in time to California's gold-rush era. rethinks Thornton Wilder's Royal Academy of Arts Until 11 Jan deceptively simple play, © The Trustees of The British Museum A tribute to Bergamo artist www.eno.org Constructing Worlds 8 – 11 Oct set in the fictional small 15 Oct – 18 Jan Giovanni Battista Moroni, Barbican Art Gallery Lord of the Flies town of Grover’s Corners. Rembrandt: a contemporary of Titian 23 Oct This comprehensive Sadler’s Wells www.almeida.co.uk The Late Works best known for his Diwali photographic exhibition casts © Courtesy of Institute for Applied Autonomy Matthew Bourne and his The National Gallery penetrating portraits. Trafalgar Square new light on 20th and 21st- company present an exciting Lose yourself in the soulful, www.royalacademy.org.uk Until 1 Feb Trafalgar Square puts on century architecture, from the new dance production, expressive paintings Disobedient Objects spectacular stage shows and first skyscrapers of New York inspired by William Golding’s Rembrandt created Victoria & Albert Museum community performances to City to Asia’s newest towers. dystopian novel. in his final years. A graffiti-writing robot and celebrate the festival of lights. www.barbican.org.uk giant inflatable cobblestones www.sadlerswells.com www.nationalgallery.org.uk www.diwaliinlondon.com are among the “disobedient objects” on display here. www.vam.ac.uk

3 Oct – 29 Nov © Richard Tuttle. Image courtesy of Stuart Shave © Condé Nast Archive/Corbis Henry IV Modern Art, London and Pace Gallery, New York © National Portrait Gallery, London 26 – 31 Oct Until 18 Jan © Cat Garcia Donmar Warehouse 14 Oct – 14 Dec 16 Oct – 11 Jan 23 Oct – 18 Jan BluesFest Knitwear: Until 4 Feb Phyllida Lloyd, who won 8 – 19 Oct I Don’t Know or The Weave Anarchy & Beauty Egon Schiele: Royal Albert Hall Chanel to Westwood Designers in Residence critical acclaim for her all- BFI London Film Festival of Textile Language National Portrait Gallery The Radical Nude Leading blues and soul Fashion and Textile Museum Design Museum female production of Julius BFI Southbank Whitechapel Gallery “Art for the people” from The Courtauld Gallery singers, including Elvis A showcase of Chanel jersey, Disruption is the theme Caesar two years ago, makes The BFI's wide-ranging A fascinating survey of the Victorian artist William A museum show Costello, Van Morrison woollen swimwear from the of this annual exhibition, a triumphant return to the programme of independent use of fibre, thread and textile Morris, including stylised documenting the vibrant and Sheryl Crow, give 30s and punkish pieces, as which spotlights new and Donmar with a fresh spin films, documentaries and by influential American artist floral patterns and ceramics, drawings and watercolours intimate performances well as the latest knitwear unexpected ideas from on Shakespeare's popular animations has earned a loyal Richard Tuttle, proving the as well as never-before-seen of nudes by Austrian in and around the Royal technologies. emerging design talent. history play. celebrity following. value of the woven canvas. personal items. expressionist Egon Schiele. Albert Hall's main auditorium. www.ftmlondon.org www.designmuseum.org www.donmarwarehouse.com www.bfi.org.uk www.whitechapelgallery.org www.npg.org.uk www.courtauld.ac.uk www.royalalberthall.com

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13 – 24 Dec 2 – 12 Dec Carols by Candlelight 8 Nov Festive Shopping Days 4 – 9 Nov 22 Nov – 4 Jan Royal Albert Hall Lord Mayor's Show Chelsea Physic Garden 6 Dec Spirit of Christmas Fair Mother Goose Carol singers don 18th- Various venues Find jewellery, ceramics and Russian Winter Festival Kensington Olympia Hackney Empire century costumes for a The Square Mile pageant, handmade chocolates at the Olympia National Sample the country’s finest Hackney’s annual pantomime special series of candlelit which dates back to the 16th 14 – 23 Nov Chelsea Physic Garden, as A celebration of Russian produce at the food hall tells the story of a magical performances, held during century, features marching EFG London Jazz Festival well as warming refreshments culture and cuisine in all Image courtesy of The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria within this seasonal fair, goose that lays golden eggs. the Royal Albert Hall's annual bands and a snaking Various venues at the Tangerine Dream Café. its forms, organised by the 1 Nov – 22 Feb which offers a dazzling www.hackneyempire.co.uk Christmas festival. procession of colourful floats. World-class artists and www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk Russian-British Cultural Emily Carr in British array of luxury gifts. www.royalalberthall.com Columbia www.lordmayorsshow.org emerging stars perform in a Association. www.spiritofchristmasfair.co.uk Dulwich Picture Gallery series of jazz concerts in the www.rbca.info The first UK exhibition capital’s churches, pubs and dedicated to Canadian large-scale arts venues. artist Emily Carr highlights www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk sweeping seascapes and brooding forest scenes. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

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© Shomei Tomatsu - interface. Image courtesy Statoil Masters Tennis of Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Royal Albert Hall 2 Nov © Studio Sébert Photographes 26 Nov – 15 Mar Former Grand Slam London to Brighton 11 Nov – 11 Jan 14 Nov – 29 Mar Conflict, Time, Photography champions relive the sport’s Veteran Car Run 5 Nov Ice Rink A Victorian Obsession: Tate Modern great rivalries at the Royal 6 Dec – 1 Jan Hyde Park Corner Bonfire Night Fireworks Somerset House The Pérez Simón Collection Conflict is the focal point of Albert Hall. The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party The world’s longest-running Various locations London’s most glamorous Leighton House Museum this thoughtful photographic www.statoilmasterstennis.com © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Royal Opera House motoring event follows Marvel at the spectacular skating venue is set within the 50 exceptional paintings from exhibition, timed to coincide 13 Dec – 6 Sep A wonderfully wacky take 500 vehicles that were firework displays taking 18th-century courtyard of the the largest Victorian private with the centenary of the Small Stories: At Home on the madcap characters manufactured before 1905 place across the capital former government buildings. art collection outside Great First World War. in a Dolls’ House of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s on a 60-mile trip to the coast. for Bonfire Night. www.somersethouse.org.uk Britain by many of the most www.tate.org.uk V&A Museum of Childhood Adventures in Wonderland – www.veterancarrun.com celebrated Victorian artists, A collection of dolls’ houses one for the whole family. shown for the first time in the from the past 300 years, www.roh.org.uk UK in this opulent setting. DECEMBER ranging from country www.rbkc.gov.uk/buytickets mansions and suburban villas to city high-rises. www.museumofchildhood.org.uk

© Spencer Murphy Illustration by Oliver Jeffers. Image courtesy 13 Nov – 22 Feb 2 Dec of HarperCollins Publishers 3 – 9 Nov © ROH / Johan Persson 2013 Taylor Wessing Photographic 21 Nov – 4 Jan The RAF in Concert 4 – 7 Dec 11 – 23 Dec 13 Dec – 4 Jan Winter Fine Arts 7 – 17 Nov Portrait Prize Winter Wonderland Cadogan Hall East London Design Show The Way Back Home The Little Match Girl & Antiques Fair The Age of Anxiety National Portrait Gallery Hyde Park The Bands of the Royal The Old Truman Brewery The Young Vic Lilian Baylis Studio Olympia Royal Opera House See the winners of this major This popular winter fair Air Force mark the 50th Discover unusual gifts that The English National Opera's Acclaimed choreographer Chippendale chairs, A new narrative ballet, international competition, boasts big top shows, anniversary of the Red would delight even the most first opera for children tells Arthur Pita tackles the Hans farmhouse tables and 18th- created by the Royal which celebrates the best a giant observation wheel Arrows with a flamboyant discerning design aficionado the story of a boy who finds Christian Andersen classic, a century tapestries are among Ballet’s artist in residence, in contemporary portrait and the largest outdoor programme of music at at the 20th edition of the East himself stuck on the moon touching tale of a street girl the antiques on offer here. Liam Scarlett. photography. ice rink in the capital. London’s newest concert hall. London Design Show. with a stranded Martian. who travels to the moon. www.olympia-antiques.com www.roh.org.uk www.taylorwessing.com www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com www.cadoganhall.com www.eastlondondesignshow.co.uk www.youngvic.org www.sadlerswells.com

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20 Jan Denis Matsuev Royal Festival Hall The extraordinarily talented Russian pianist transports the audience from Rachmaninov’s romantic concertos to a hypnotic dance that reflects a scene from Lenau’s Faust. www.southbankcentre.co.uk 13 – 20 Jan 5 Jan London International 22 Jan 31 Dec 9 – 18 Jan Twelfth Night Festival Mime Festival BBC Blue Planet in Concert Mayor of London’s Fireworks London Boat Show Bankside Various venues Royal Festival Hall Southbank ExCeL London See the Bankside Mummers Europe’s leading annual Sink into the depths of the Usher in the new year with A chance to take in the 18 Dec – 17 Jan perform a folk play based on showcase of contemporary ocean with breathtaking a dazzling firework display very latest boats, from Un Ballo in Maschera the story of St George as part visual theatre features footage from the BBC’s Blue 13 Dec – 4 Jan on the banks of the Thames. sailing barges and tugs Royal Opera House of the midwinter festivities. performance art, interactive Planet series, accompanied The Tin Soldier www.london.gov.uk German director Katharina to prestigious powerboats circus and puppetry. by music from the Roundhouse www.thelionspart.co.uk Thoma makes her Royal and naval craft. www.mimelondon.com Philharmonia Orchestra. An enchanting festive Opera debut with this www.londonboatshow.com www.southbankcentre.co.uk production, based on the January new production of Verdi’s Hans Christian Andersen tragedy of illicit love, loyalty classic tale. and betrayal. www.roundhouse.org.uk www.roh.org.uk

20 Jan – 6 Feb Andrea Chénier Royal Opera House David McVicar directs a 1 Jan new production of Umberto New Year’s Day Parade Giordano's passionate drama Various venues of liberty and love in the 23 Jan 15 – 22 Dec More than 10,000 performers French Revolution. Miki Imai London International assemble for the New www.roh.org.uk Cadogan Hall Horse Show Year’s Day Parade, which Miki Imai performs her first 5 Jan 11 Jan Kensington Olympia winds from Piccadilly to solo show outside her native Love Duets Scanner: Tavener 13 – 24 Jan This popular equestrian event Parliament Street. Japan, with award-winning 22 Dec – 21 Jan Barbican Hall Deconstructed/ Orfeo plays host to show jumping, www.londonparade.co.uk composer Simon Hale American opera singers Ailyn Reconstructed Roundhouse dressage competitions, dog Treasure Island on piano. Perez and Stephen Costello Kings Place The Roundhouse and the agility contests and a festive National Theatre www.cadoganhall.com perform a series of show Scanner breathes new life Royal Opera join forces as parade involving hundreds Bryony Lavery’s new tunes and Verdi favourites into the works of English Michael Boyd directs a much of horses. adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson adventure that underline the importance composer John Tavener, anticipated new production www.olympiahorseshow.com February takes viewers on a journey of romance. using electronics and live of Monteverdi's masterpiece to find sunken treasure, www.barbican.org.uk instrumentation. L'Orfeo, the first great opera. punctuated by pirates www.kingsplace.co.uk www.roundhouse.org.uk (and parrots). www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

Photo by Jason Alden Wakefield Permanent Art Collection 4 Jan © Bowness, Hepworth Estate 17 – 18 Dec 25 Dec National Youth Orchestra 9 – 18 Jan 11 – 18 Jan 21 – 25 Jan 4 Feb The Who Peter Pan Cup of Great Britain London Short Film Festival Masters Snooker 15 Jan London Art Fair The Choir of King’s The O2 Hyde Park Barbican Hall Various venues Alexandra Palace NBA Global Games Business Design Centre College, Cambridge Veteran rock band The Watch the Serpentine Conductor John Wilson Now in its 12th year, the Follow the world’s top The O2 The London Art Fair features Kings Place Who take to the stage for a Swimming Club’s bravest leads the UK’s finest young London Short Film Festival snooker players as they The New York Knicks take works by modern British and Listen to the choir sing 50th anniversary show that members take the plunge for musicians for the annual screens the best short films compete for a place in the on the Milwaukee Bucks in contemporary artists, ranging vespers in plainsong – a combines classic anthems its Christmas morning race, winter concert, featuring from the UK’s young creatives final at this elite invitation London as part of the global from experimental film to staple liturgical fare in the and deeper cuts. held every year since 1864. Elgar’s Symphony No. 1. across dozens of venues. tournament. basketball series. large-scale installations. early years of the Chapel. www.theo2.co.uk www.serpentineswimmingclub.com www.barbican.org.uk www.shortfilms.org.uk www.alexandrapalace.com www.theo2.co.uk www.londonartfair.co.uk www.kingsplace.co.uk

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Photo by Dmitry Dubinksy 18 – 21 Feb © Barda Eugene Onegin 5 – 24 Feb Barbican Theatre Der fliegende Holländer The Vakhtangov State Royal Opera House Academic Theatre of Russia, Tim Albery's acclaimed © Mat Hennek EMI Classics one of the country’s most production is a darkly 11 – 12 Feb prestigious companies, 24 Feb – 7 Jun insightful account of Sir Simon Rattle and the presents a theatrical Salt and Silver: Early Wagner's early masterpiece, Berliner Philharmoniker interpretation of Pushkin’s Photography 1840-1860 The Flying Dutchman. Barbican Hall story of unrequited love. Tate Britain www.roh.org.uk Rattle and the Berliner www.barbican.org.uk The first UK exhibition Philharmoniker perform the dedicated to salted paper final three symphonies of prints, an early type of Sibelius, the Finnish master photography that is instantly who was known for his love recognisable for its soft, of nature. dreamlike aesthetic. www.barbican.org.uk www.tate.org.uk

Peter Cox © Marlene Dumas 5 Feb – 10 May 19 Feb Marlene Dumas Chinese New Year Tate Modern Chinatown Trace the contours of Marlene Photo by Johan Persson The biggest Chinese New Dumas' artistic career, which 13 Feb – 21 Mar Year celebrations outside 25 Feb covers subjects as varied as Happy Days Asia, with fireworks, street Rumours of Fleetwood Mac the influence of celebrity and The Young Vic parades and performances. Cadogan Hall the anxieties attached to Olivier Award-winning actress www.chinatownlondon.org The leading tribute to modern life. Juliet Stevenson stars in Fleetwood Mac captures the www.tate.org.uk Samuel Beckett's surreal band's power and subtlety masterpiece. with a dramatic live show. www.youngvic.org www.cadoganhall.com

Christopher James, British Fashion Council 20 – 24 Feb © Teatro Real Javier del Real © ROH/Alice Pennefather, 2012 London Fashion Week 26 Feb – 14 Mar 10 Feb – 9 Apr 14 Feb Somerset House The Indian Queen Swan Lake Six Nations: England vs Italy See Somerset House London Coliseum Royal Opera House Twickenham Stadium transformed into a style hub Renowned director Peter Anthony Dowell’s opulent England take on Italy for London Fashion Week, Sellars is at the helm of this production of the lakeside in the latest round of the which hosts hundreds of exciting new production of ballet is more than a annual international rugby catwalk shows and designer Purcell's final opera, which match for Tchaikovsky’s competition, which began showrooms previewing is set against backdrops by magnificent score. in 1883. autumn's essential looks. LA-based graffiti artist Gronk. www.roh.org.uk www.rbs6nations.com www.somersethouse.org.uk www.eno.org

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Infini represents the next chapter in an facilities await. “The experience of arriving at your exciting legacy for Foster + Partners, which penthouse starts with the arrival lobby, which has already designed a host of iconic buildings, matches that of a boutique five-star hotel,” says including the London headquarters for HSBC Martin Goddard, director of Goddard Littlefair, and Swiss Re, and amassed more than 600 the interior design company behind Infini. “The awards for excellence in the process. “When we design style flows all the way through, so you feel were designing the spaces throughout Infini, we you are part of the overall experience as soon as were looking for opportunities that you would you step through the front door.” not normally find,” explains Brooker. “In the Beyond the lobby, which is decorated penthouses, the height was the opportunity we with statement lighting and backlit onyx, had.” It was this observation that prompted lies an extensive health and wellness suite Foster + Partners to unify two of the floors to – a refined, reassuring oasis of tranquility create a grand, double-height space at the focal that invites residents to relax and unwind point of the building. in sleek surroundings, bathed in natural light

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sensitivity. “Natural light is one of the most important aspects of the design,” says Brooker. “What is unique and unusual about the building is that it’s on the river, but it has a western profile. That means you have direct sunlight moving through the building, giving it a changing reflectivity. The light lifts the space.” “Here, there are no compromises”, adds Goddard, highlighting the huge amount of consideration that has been given to the materials that feature throughout Infini: alongside an array of specialty finishes such as intricate embroidery and beadwork, “the gilded ceilings, contrast in the floor, joinery and panelling all add an extra layer of detail”, he says. Exquisite heavy-grained marbles, imported from Italy, and elegant, highly glossed timber finishes throughout come

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rooms. The jewel in the crown is the 19th-floor club lounge and terrace, affording a spectacular view for an aperitif and the perfect spot to enjoy a wonderful combination of atmosphere, privacy and exuberant hospitality. Each of these experiences will serve as the perfect prelude to actually stepping inside an Infini penthouse. They take in the full sweep of the city in a fleeting glance and from a completely private vantage point, surrounded by a lavish selection of home comforts. The form and shape of the sensuous, organic curves that define the architecture have in turn shaped the interior design. “The helical staircase, which links all three levels of the penthouse, reflects the curves of the building,” says Goddard of his favourite feature. “It creates drama and a connection You are at the centre through all the levels,” he explains. “The spaces of the city and you see flow together: you can go around the entire floor without ever going back on yourself.” it from a completely Curved glazing affords 180-degree views different point of view. from every room. “We tried to capture an almost panoramic feel in the penthouses,” says Brooker. You see all of the life “They have very wide arcs, so each of the rooms and energy of the city is almost 7.5m wide and they become part of the 01 Dining room expression of the building. It’s very unusual to be 01 The museum building and – from the river and 02 Bathroom clockin a living tower space and have so much of London in 03 Hallway 02 Victorianfront of you.” Conservatory roof roads to the light – 04 The Corniche lobby 03 One Eofach the penthouse many stuffed is marked out by elegant 05 The Corniche spa tropicalcomposition birds onand display a lightness of touch that is from a unique place. 06 Bedroom

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Brits are rather good at making fine things. Rachel Jones, Buckitt hen footwear designer Rachel Jones launched her new bag line, Buckitt, last year, she had one condition in mind: it had Wto be made in England. The labour costs, she was aware, would result in a more expensive product. But she was convinced that the bags would have a certain ineffable quality that wouldn’t be achievable even if they were made in, say, Italy. “Although the hand skills are in danger of being 01 lost now, there remains a distinct heritage in 02 the UK for making dependable, unshowy, well- considered, hand-crafted goods,” she says from her east London factory. “Of course, talk of ‘craft’ and ‘heritage’ has become fashionable – it’s as much a factor in beers as in bags now. But behind that faddishness is an essential truth: that Brits 10 are rather good at making fine things.” And not just beers and bags: while the makers to the attention of people who should UK’s industrial manufacturing base may have be buying their products. Many of them at the gone under, or gone east, or is at least widely showcase are quirky in that British way. But perceived as having done so – in fact, far from 01 Buckitt bag it’s not about waving the Union Jack, so much being dominated by service industries, the 02 Buckitt bag in production: as perhaps pointing out that there are a lot of Hammer tab UK remains ranked seventh in the world for great British makers, old and new, and bringing 03 Buckitt bag in production: manufacturing output – not only do a number 09 Rivet press them together.” of historic, household names remain, but a 04 Finishing touches – logo 09 A few of the hundreds Certainly the finer things from British plethora of small, sometimes one-man-band applied to inside pocket of handmade pieces makers can be very fine indeed: Roger Smith designer-makers are coming up to maintain a www.buckitt.myshopify.com that make a watch serves as one example of what might be called buoyant industry in the low-key production of 03 04 10 Series 2 watch extreme craft. A protégé of the late master 11 Inner of an Open everything from clothes to cars, jewellery to hats. George Daniels, Smith might be regarded as Dial watch Suppliers and factories – perhaps as a 05 Best of Britannia (BoB) shop one of the finest watchmakers in the world – he www.rwsmithwatches.com result of the economic downturn – are more 06 View of BoB exhibitions and his small team literally make every single 07 Jack Sheppard display enthusiastic about working with small quantities component of his watches from scratch at his Isle 08 G Plan Vintage display and more challenging projects, which helps these of Man workshop. This means he creates perhaps www.bestofbritannia.com new designer-makers get off the ground; and the just 10 watches a year – “companies tend to post internet has proven a crucial tool in funding, in annual increases in production as if that was reaching sufficient numbers of customers, and some recognition that they’re doing well,” says for customers to find the more esoteric products Smith. “But I don’t see it that way. I’m happy to that suit their personality too. And with new say I’m one of the smallest watchmakers in the ventures out to support such makers – the likes world.” Smith has recently been commissioned of London’s annual Best of Britannia show, or to make a ‘GB Watch’, a one-off that will form the New Craftsmen collective, which has recently part of a government initiative comprising a opened a Mayfair gallery – this is the new market 05 06 promotional world tour of British craft goods. of the global niche. And it’s growing, if you know “The watch is perhaps an unusual way to where to look. demonstrate the British skills in making things “In fact, I was increasingly finding myself – after all, watchmaking doesn’t typically fit in working with people who were very passionate with ideas of Britishness,” Smith adds. “But I about their product, finding that there were like to think the watch could bring recognition more and more of them, but also that not many to a whole British watchmaking tradition that people knew about them,” says brand consultant few people even know exists. Beyond that I think Antony Wallis of why he launched the Best of there is a resurgence of interest among people Britannia show. “In part it’s about protecting in knowing how the things they use in their craftsmanship and underlining a sustainability 11 lives are actually made and seeing that people message – that well-made things are built to still actually use their hands to make them – it’s last. But it’s more simply about bringing these a counter to the frenetic world we live in.” 07 08 70 – Homes & London Homes & London – 71 The British issue Made in Britain

A protégé of the late master George Daniels, Roger Smith might be regarded as one of the finest watchmakers in the world.

Under the meticulous eye of Roger Smith

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They are also, perhaps, opening their minds as to what actually constitutes craft – beyond the somewhat romanticised notion of wizened, gnarly-handed makers whiling away the wee small hours hunched over benches displaying a loving patina. “We’re certainly not working from some stunning atelier. There’s no glamour in it. In fact, it’s mostly hot and dirty,” says Ian Covey, 01 Centenary Red suitcase founder of Vickers Bicycles, makers of bespoke collection bicycles, including, recently, a special edition for 02 Suitcases in the making tailor Richard James. “What we do is really light 02 www.globetrotter1897.com industry, but it’s no less about craft for all that. The product that results is just as special and Of course, not everything need be crafted yes, very much so, and this even with a company all part of the growing desire for lovely, hand- quite to Smith’s level, as a growing groundswell that, although based in the UK since the 1930s, made things.” of demand for all things ‘Made in Britain’ perhaps is originally German – suitcase and latterly “What’s important to note is that British suggests. Small wonder that, when back in 2005 leather-goods manufacturer Globetrotter. She makers are not just about making the more there was EU talk of introducing a voluntary concedes that there is certainly an element of obviously ‘fine’ things,” agrees Nicholas Brooke, code to replace member states’ own ‘made in...’ the good story to the fact that the company takes co-owner of Sunspel, one of the oldest and still labels with a generic ‘Made in Europe’ one, five days just to mould a suitcase’s corner-piece, among the best makers of men’s underwear manufacturers in the UK were among those up or that it has tried to make its cases on modern – clothing is certainly one area in which in neatly-sleeved arms (while those in Eastern machinery but repeatedly finds that it cannot British makers have long excelled: knitwear Europe were, funnily enough, broadly all for measure up to the finesse feasible on its old manufacturer John Smedley, for example, can it). The so-called ‘patriotic purchase’ has, in the Victorian workhorses. lay claim to running the oldest continually- UK as abroad, seen a shift towards an active “But we make the way we do because we’ve operational factory in the world; Italy, the preference for home-grown products – which in found that the cases can’t be rushed, that erstwhile home of fashion, was only unified as the UK tend to be at the higher end of the market. something is lost if we try to change too much,” 03 a state in 1871 – by then, Macintosh had already And it was perhaps for similar reasons, when in she says. “And if we moved it all wholesale been keeping people dry for close to half 2006 the Prada Group bought full control of one abroad, and they weren’t made in the UK a century. of the greatest names in English shoemaking, anymore, I know people wouldn’t be as interested “Luxury is often stereotyped as being about Church’s Shoes, it did not do so purely for the in them. In part that’s because, right or wrong, making something extremely expensive, from name, figuring pattern-makers, clickers and the UK has a certain association with the quality the rarest materials and in the most complex closers in Italy would do the job just as well, of craftsmanship. But it’s just as much because way,” Brooke adds. “But what makes British more profitably and under closer supervision – people want to support the British economy craft distinctive from that of other countries authenticity and integrity were regarded as being and British makers, and to back British working is precisely that it tends to be focused on the a question of geography. conditions. There is a growing awareness of just making of things that are useful, functional and But would anyone have really cared if a how much British craft manufacturing has died so good value. We’re a practical nation, which quintessentially British company had been out, but also people are much better educated is why other aspects of what we make – great relocated, providing the product quality about what they buy now too. They buy better design and engineering, for example – shouldn’t remained unchanged? Katherine Green argues and less frequently.” be overshadowed by this fixed idea of craft.” 04 05 74 – Homes & London Homes & London – 75 The British issue Made in Britain

The UK is expected to make around two million cars next year, accounting for some 10 percent 01 Morgan Roadster 02 Morgan craftsmen of British exports. www.morgan-motor.co.uk 01 That would certainly be the case with, for example, a car. The received wisdom may be that the car industry in the UK is long gone – and since there are only a few survivors from what was once a business with over 100 manufacturers, that is not far from the truth. And yet the UK is expected to make around two million cars next year, accounting for some 10 percent of British exports. “Obviously the top-end UK car industry is going through something of a renaissance at the moment, which is something the government has cottoned on to in its new efforts to push ‘Made in England’,” explains Mark Ledington, sales and marketing director at British company Morgan, the world’s oldest privately-owned car manufacturer. “There may be an assumption that British craft is focused on small scale product, but actually it’s equally applicable to large, extremely complicated products. There is, of course, a style to the cars that is distinctly British, that comes from the history and heritage – but equally British is the ability to meld advanced technology to hand crafts. It’s something people appreciate you have to pay for – you can, after all, go to the high street for your suits, or you can Morgan cars in production go to Savile Row.” 02 76 – Homes & London Homes & London – 77 The British issue Made in Britain

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03 in that way of being beautiful, unflashy But it’s not just in hefty if streamlined chunks things that appeal to the connoisseur, of metal and rubber that a characteristically British combination of craft and engineering but which are modern with it. comes to the fore. It can be in the little things too. Chris Holden, Ajoto It might just be in your pocket. Chris Holden and Tim Higgins of young design company Ajoto, for example, have spent the last two years in their 01 Aluminium New Cross studio working out how to drill a waiting for the V12 VANTAGE S hole through a single block of brass in order to extrusion process create a new, more minimalistic-styled but still 02 Quality control of upscale pen. the Brass pens A FORCE OF NATURE UNLEASHED “The manufacturers said it couldn’t be done, 03 Inspection of a that it would be easier to drill two smaller lengths brass pen V12 Vantage S Roadster awakens every nerve ending, sets the senses alight and has a raw energy that grips 04 Silver Satin-Spun and then weld them together, and that the join at a visceral level. Melding the power of our iconic 6.0-litre V12 engine and the deft control of our compact would be invisible,” says Holden. “But we told aluminium pen 05 Brass pen parts them that we’d know the join was there and that sportscar, V12 Vantage S Roadster puts you at the epicentre of the action. It is a drivers’ car without equal. 06 Minimal Black details like that mattered. What we want to do is Collection take on a market dominated by these big, very www.ajoto.com classic companies that are more about quills and calligraphic writing with something that is about 21st-century craftsmen. It’s about making Of cial government fuel consumption  gures in litres/100km (mpg) for the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S: Urban 22.5 (12.6); Extra- products that are British in that way of being urban 10.2 (27.7); Combined 14.7 (19.2). CO2 emissions 343g/km. The mpg/fuel economy  gures quoted are sourced from of cial beautiful, unflashy things that appeal to the regulated test results obtained through laboratory testing. They are for comparability purposes only and may not re ect your real connoisseur, but which are modern with it.” driving experience, which may vary depending on factors including road conditions, weather, vehicle load, and driving style. And that, it seems, may be as carefully- crafted a summary of why one might want to spend more on our native produce as could be wished for. 04 06 78 – Homes & London The British issue L – R Acacia Dealeata tree, £45. West Six Garden Material difference Centre. www.w6gardencentre.co.uk. Marble & brass Herringbone Table by Bethan Gray for Lapida, £30,000. www.lapida.com. Crassula Argentia succulent plant, Material £25. Crassula Hobbit succulent plant, £18.99, terracotta pots, £7.99 each, all from West Six Garden Centre. Alice Stripy Marble Chopping Board by Bethan Gray, Difference £239. www.bethangray.com. Container Lamp (on table) by Benjamin Hubert, £491. Available from Ligne Roset. www.ligne-roset.co.uk. Ceramic Pinch Pots by Another Country, £16 each. Materials and finishes are, Twentytwentyone. www.twentytwentyone.com. and have always been, two Compton wallpaper by William Morris, £60 per roll, Morris & Co. www.william-morris. of the greatest strengths in co.uk. Slope dining chair by Sebastian Wrong, £408, Wrong for Hay. www.wrongforhay. British design. We bring com. Key Shadow rug by Suzanne Sharp, £610/sqm. The Rug Co. www.therugcompany. together a selection from the com. Port table lamp, £7,200, and floor lamp, £11,400 by Alexander Taylor. David Gill less well-known to the more Galleries. www.davidgillgalleries.com. Reclining Chair in Mohair velvet by Robin Day, £1,875. established British designers. Twentytwentyone Photography Damian Russell Assistant: Nick George Styling Suzanne Stankus Assistant: Ella McCabe-Barton

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Crassula Hobbit, £18.99, terracotta pot, £7.99. West Six Garden Centre. Cacti, £14.99, terracotta pot, £5.99, West Six Garden Centre. Reclining Chair in Mohair velvet by Robin Day, £1,875. Twentytwentyone. Square Davey Compton wallpaper by pendant light, William Morris, £60 per roll, £405. Davey Morris & Co Lighting. www. davey-lighting.co.uk. Paladian serving plate, Acacia Dealeata £53, dinner plate, £36.50. tree, £45. West Six Custhom. www.custhom.co.uk. Garden Centre Patternity striped bread plate, £40. Richard Brendon. www.richardbrendon.com. Small black ceramic pinch pots by Another Country, £16 each. Twentytwentyone. www.twentytwentyone.com. Oval Melon glass plate, £75, Rectangular 'Arctic Waves' glass platter, £85 by John Derian. Liberty. www.liberty.co.uk

Port table lamp, £7,200, and floor lamp, £11,400 by Alexander Taylor. David Gill Galleries. Hydrangea Quercifolia plant, £35. West Six Garden Centre

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In a world full of selfies, smartphones and sushi, some of London’s top establishments are reinventing 19th-century fare for the 21st-century palate. Writer Hayley Ard

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Located in the former East Banking Hall of Pearl Assurance, this grand British brasserie is the jewel in the crown of Rosewood London ondon’s latest crop of restaurants – one of the capital’s newest and most lavish and cocktail bars are reinventing traditional luxury hotels. Here, Des McDonald, a former BritishL fare by giving an entirely fresh slant on head chef at The Ivy, serves seasonal British Victoriana, high tea and well-loved classics – dishes with a twist, including fish finger including the humble fish finger sandwich. sandwiches with pea purée; fried squid, dipped A British food revival is spreading across in gentleman’s relish mayonnaise; and a fruity London, spurring the capital’s leading chefs to Pimm’s jelly. The cocktails are a delicious and take historic recipes in unexpected directions very modern tribute to the rural scenes they and paint fragments of Victorian scenes over allude to: note the Bluebell – a lively mix thoroughly modern settings. School-dinner of myrtle, spiced honey, black walnut bitters puddings, including treacle sponge, rhubarb and sparkling wine – or the Camden Town crumble and bananas and custard, are being Treacle, which comes with a reduction of elevated to new heights. Hawksmoor, the Harviestoun’s Old Engine Oil (a velvety ale, steakhouse that often serves as a backdrop for sourced from Scotland). deal-clinching power lunches, has even managed to transform Rolos from a tuck-shop treat to a Rosewood London delicacy that you’d rather not share with the rest 252 High Holborn of the table. London WC1V 7EN The trend is not limited to restaurants. One +44 (0)20 3747 8633 of its keenest supporters is Charlie Gilkes, co- www.holborndiningroom.com owner and founder of quintessentially British bar Mr Fogg’s. Not only was his venue “designed 1 and decorated to be reminiscent of the Victorian era, with memorabilia and artefacts such as an imposing portrait of its matriarch, Queen Victoria, hanging alongside penny-farthings and William Morris wallpaper”, but its menu also offers “an interpretation of ‘Victorian Cocktailian Culture’”. Gilkes conjured up classics from the era, including gin fizzes, stirrup cups and sazeracs, by sending his bar team to the British Library to conduct extensive research. And the “tipsy” afternoon tea served at Mr Fogg’s – which comes “beautifully presented on traditional three-tiered stands and served on embossed fine bone china, which was of St John course also the fashion in Victorian times”, says Gilkes – forges another link to British culinary This former Smithfield smokehouse (and traditions. It is hosted by an actress who portrays headquarters of Marxism Today) specialises the seventh Duchess of Bedford – the woman in nose-to-tail cooking – the “set of delights, credited with inventing afternoon tea in 1841. textural and flavoursome, which lie beyond the The Worship Street Whistling Shop, fillet”, in chef Fergus Henderson’s words. Roast meanwhile, pays tribute to “the last truly great 2 bone marrow, lamb sweetbreads and pigeon era of drinking in London – the Victorian period with Jerusalem artichokes are among the gutsy, of gin palaces and dram shops”, according to richly traditional dishes you can look forward co-owner Tristan Stephenson. “Our drinks are to here. With a week’s notice, you can order a inspired by that era, whether it’s through our whole roast suckling pig. And in just 15 minutes, fascination with apothecary, how we serve our you can summon a dozen warm madeleines to whisky or what we do with our wide selection of lighten an after-dinner espresso – or a simple gins,” he explains. “We aim to recreate the sights, Eccles cake with Lancashire cheese, should you aromas and tastes of that period in time and take desire a little extra English heritage. people back there when they spend the evening with us.” 26 St John Street Here, Homes & London highlights six of the London best bars and restaurants that transport visitors EC1M 4AY to a whole new world of British food and drink +44 (0)20 7251 0848 – unlike anything even seasoned residents have www.stjohngroup.uk.com tasted before.

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Mr Fogg’s The Wolseley The imagined home of eccentric adventurer The Wolseley describes itself as a “café- Phileas Fogg – the hero of Jules Verne's restaurant in the grand European tradition”. ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ – invites its It should come as no surprise, then, that its guests to return to the colonies that defined the approach to dining and décor straddles two Victorian era with a cleverly curated selection worlds: Viennese elegance and the glamour of of souvenirs: penny-farthings, hunting trophies London in the 1920s (the venue was previously and birdcages, to name but a few. This quirky a prestigious car showroom, designed by Mayfair haunt feels more like a curiosity shop architect William Curtis Green in 1921). After than a cocktail bar, but you can rest assured that a major restoration in 2003 – and a further its concoctions are not mere novelties. The Fish upgrade in January – the restaurant has House Punch – shot through with peach liqueur emerged as a truly opulent setting for afternoon and fresh lime – comes highly recommended, tea or a crispy bacon roll, which you can top as does the Maiden’s Blush (a perky sour made with a fried egg, if you so desire. from Old Tom gin, white absinthe and a thin layer of raspberry jam). 160 Piccadilly London 15 Bruton Lane W1J 9EB London +44 (0)20 7499 6996 W1J 6JD www.thewolseley.com +44 (0)20 7036 0608 3 5 www.mr-foggs.com

Worship Street Whistling Shop Hawksmoor Although the Worship Street Whistling Shop is firmly rooted in the Victorian era, its cocktails Hawksmoor is first and foremost a steak are made using cutting-edge ingredients and restaurant, but it has also made a name for mixology equipment, from enzymes and acids itself for remixing the staples of British cuisine to rotary evaporators and vacuum technology. with wit and flair. Just look at the pudding list, Visitors to its Dram Shop – which has a cast- which features salted caramel Rolos, peanut iron bathtub as its centrepiece – are given a butter shortbread and clotted-cream ice cream. key to a cabinet of gin-based cocktails that The triple-cooked chips are a high point – they have been aged for at least a month in wax- are every bit as fluffy and as crisp as you could sealed glass bottles. Many of the drinks take wish for – but don’t leave without trying the their names from mischievous literary figures Sunday lunch, a veritable feast of roast rump of and side characters that appear in Lewis longhorn beef, complete with all the trimmings. Carroll’s tales: Black Cats and Street Urchins sit It was named the best in the UK by the Observer alongside Malic in Wonderland, a heady swirl Food Monthly. of rum, cider, vermouth and cherry bakewell. 11 Langley Street 4 63 Worship Street London London WC2H 9JG EC2A 2DU +44 (0)20 7420 9390 +44 (0)20 7247 0015 www.thehawksmoor.com www.whistlingshop.com 6 88 – Homes & London Homes & London – 89 a gentle –manʼs view The Brit London has been a source of inspiration for artists for centuries, but for David Gentleman – the British artist- designer behind the platform- length mural at Charing Cross tube station, countless postage stamps, urban prints and watercolours, many of which are in the collections of the British Museum, Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum – the city is far more than that. Writer Hayley Ard Photography Ranald Mackechnie

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Homes & London – 91 The British issue A gentlemanʼs view It’s a place of 01 02 surprising contrasts, raw colour and individuality, a cosmopolitan mish- mash that is always in flux – and, above all, home.

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t’s been nearly 60 years since David Gentleman set up his home and studio in CamdenI Town, but he has no intention of leaving. For a start, the view is too good. 05 06 “Looking out of my studio window, on one The Shard, not the London Eye, is side, I see the 19th-century landscape of Camden Gentleman’s favourite vantage point over the Town, its spires and pyramid roofs. On the other, city. “From the top, you have an astonishing, I look out onto a gentrified, leafy crescent. That map-like view of the river and its bends,” he says. juxtaposition of surprising contrasts is really a “When you are walking along the riverside, you London characteristic,” says Gentleman, adding hardly realise that it is curving at all: it seems that what he loves most about the city is its quite gentle. But when you look down on it, it’s variety: “the mixture it retains – even now – of quite astonishing how wiggly it is.” He points out old and new, smart and shabby, rich and poor”. the tangled and centipede-like railways that curl Throughout his long career, Gentleman has around the “echoes of the streets that were there observed and captured many different facets of before the Great Fire of London” – traced edges the capital. “Some of my early work included in a palimpsest of history. posters for London Transport,” he says. “I then Gentleman's advice to those who are new made quite a lot of wood engravings of London to London is to venture to the far corners of the subjects.” In the 1970s, Gentleman produced a city. “There are surprising places further out,” series of lithographs of Covent Garden – a part he says, suggesting a trip to Greenwich on the of the city that was in danger of being torn down Docklands Light Railway. “There, you can look at the time “simply to make a new route to the 03 across the river to the hospital, to Christopher middle of it”. Gentleman’s response? “I looked Wren’s wonderful, symmetric Royal Hospital,” very hard at the endangered part of London and he says. “It’s lovely. I think it’s London’s most made prints of some of the lovely things in it.” intense formal masterpiece of architecture.” That’s the beauty of having to draw, he says: In addition to these places, there are a “itʼs a very good way of making you look hard number of museums and galleries in the city at things”. that Gentleman continues to draw inspiration Two years ago, Gentleman published 01 Regent’s Canal from. “The obvious ones are the Tate Modern, ‘London, You’re Beautiful: An Artist’s Year’, a with Regent’s Park Tate Britain and National Gallery,” he says, visual and written tribute to the city for which Road bridge recommending visiting each for “short, intense “change is an absolute constant”. “That gave 02 ArcelorMittal Orbit, bursts, rather than desperately trying to see me a reason to look at the city afresh and try to Olymic Park everything”. Best for children is the Wallace identify the things I liked about it – one being its 03 Oxford Circus Collection – “because there are things that would 04 Wood engraving leafiness,” Gentleman explains. “If you compare interest them in the pictures”. Also good is the mural, Charing Cross London with a city like Paris, one is much better Underground Station, Victoria and Albert Museum for its “interest in the off with parks, gardens and squares. We’re very 1978 links between art and design, which are very much lucky in that respect: we have the lovely heath. 05 Royal Mail stamp design, intertwined”, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery for I think it is a miracle that some place like this Abbotsbury Swans its “interesting examples of architecture by Sir stands in the middle of a prosperous and 06 ‘London, You’re John Soane, who is perhaps a greater architect vivacious city.” Beautiful’ book cover than he is acknowledged to be”.

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In particular, Gentleman is fond of the early Florentine work in the National Gallery, including the paintings of Piero della Francesca, an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. “Those I’ve loved since my student days,” he says. But the real reason he returns to galleries time and again is the chance “to see things you donʼt know so well and to go through a process of sorting out what you most like”. And what Gentleman still likes, after all these years, are London’s street markets, from the famous stalls clustered around Brick Lane to one in Deptford that is lesser-known, but equally “wonderful”. In the introduction to ʻLondon, Youʼre Beautifulʼ, Gentleman writes that when he 03 began painting more in London, he was drawn ALT1-C/RG instinctively to the city’s “green, natural subjects: the parks, gardens, lakes, rivers and canals, in which the city is much richer than we tend to assume”. His current work takes on a subject that is greener still. “For a long time, we’ve had a place in Suffolk, where we can go to unwind and I can paint landscapes,” he says. “My new book, ʻIn the Countryʼ is all about that.”

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01 Front elevation Located just minutes from Parsons Green, Hurlingham Walk presents a 02 Bathroom modern interpretation of mansion apartment living with the added benefits 03 Kitchen of a concierge service and gated underground parking. 68 apartments are 04 Bedroom situated over six floors around a private landscaped courtyard in this new 05 Private courtyard landmark building for Fulham. (overleaf) Each of the spacious apartments boasts private outside space and a luxurious specification including underfloor heating, comfort cooling, bespoke- designed kitchens and marble finishes. The Premier Collection fourth-floor apartments and fifth-floor Penthouse Collection, including an impressive 4-bedroom apartment with expansive terrace, define sophisticated apartment living.

Hurlingham Walk Email: [email protected] Carnwath Road, Fulham Website: www.hurlinghamwalk.co.uk London SW6 3HW Telephone: +44 (0)20 8246 4199 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER

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01 Townhouses Scheduled for completion in Q1 2015, these luxury homes are just a stone’s throw from the ever-popular Parsons Green on the peaceful Sulivan Road in South Fulham. Arranged around a private gated courtyard, this superb collection of just 13, 4-bedroom classic townhouses all benefit from private terraces and gardens, a secluded courtyard and off-street gated parking.

Hurlingham Gate Email: [email protected] Sulivan Road, Fulham Website: www.hurlinghamgate.co.uk London SW6 3DX Telephone: +44 (0)20 8246 4199 COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE* GENERATED COMPUTER

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01 Front elevation The Merano Residences offer the rarest of London living experiences. 02 Balcony 03 Apartment kitchen/dining room A collection of just 40 private residences, each occupying at least one 04 Apartment living room whole coloured level, in a landmark building designed by one of the world’s most celebrated architects, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. A truly unique place to live, that combines the highest levels of privacy and comfort with one of the most famous views in the world.

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01 View of apartments and public piazza 02 Living/dining/kitchen area 03 Living room 04 Bedroom Alongside 82 striking 1 and 2-bedroom apartments, the development will provide beautifully landscaped open spaces and a riverside walkway. Two restaurants overlook the public piazza, whilst the new cultural venue At the very heart of Twickenham, located opposite the railway station, will become home to a diverse range of entertainment and activities. Brewery Wharf is an extraordinary new development set to lead the transformation of this key part of town. Central London is easily The contemporary apartments offer the ultimate in 21st-century accessible with trains running every eight minutes to Waterloo station living; with open-plan living areas, private balconies or terraces taking just 25 minutes. Richmond is just four minutes away by train. and a stylish specification.

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01 Exterior view of houses Set within an exclusive gated mews, Brewery Gate presents a collection of 28 elegant 02 Living room 4 and 5-bedroom houses with spacious open-plan accommodation arranged over 03 Kitchen/dining room four floors, secluded gardens and two dedicated off-street parking spaces. 04 Bedroom Nestling behind Brewery Wharf, with its apartments, restaurants, piazza, new cultural venue and riverside walk, Brewery Gate is a stone’s throw from world-class amenities and some of the best schools in the country. The houses at Brewery Gate offer luxury modern living in a private setting with bespoke design and a contemporary specification.

Brewery Wharf Website: www.brewery-wharf.co.uk London Road Telephone: +44 (0)20 3002 9457 Twickenham TW1 1AA

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KEW BRIDGEWEST the stunningviews. apartment featuresopen-planlivingandprivateoutsidespace toenjoy and thepenthouserepresentbestinluxuryliving.Each3-bedroom Located ontheupperfloorsof15-storeyHyperionTower, The Suites underground parkingsetwithinbeautifullylandscapedgrounds. The developmentoffersaconciergeservice,privateresidents’ gym and natural greenenvironmentclosetotheRiverThamesandKewGardens. A collectionofstriking1,2and3-bedroomapartmentssituated ina KEW BRIDGEROAD TW8 Homes & London–117 The British issue The St James collection Riverlight Nine Elms on the south bank SW8

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03 Riverlight is an exciting new residential development, on the riverfront, in There is also an exclusive residents’ clubhouse featuring a state-of-the-art a brand new district right in the heart of central London. World-renowned gymnasium, swimming pool and holistic spa, a digital entertainment suite architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have designed an architectural with private cinema and virtual golf, and spacious lounge and library area. classic of the future; six modern and elegant pavilions specifically designed to maximise the sunlight within and optimise the views out. Landscaped gardens offer riverfront walks, bars and restaurants.

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01 Exterior view of houses A unique, gated development of brand new, luxuriously appointed 01 Courtyard view of apartments A unique collection of studio, 1 and 2-bedroom luxury apartments located 4, 5 and 6-bedroom family homes. The 39 stylish houses will feature in Zone 3, with excellent transport links into the city and nestled between an outstanding specification and all homes benefit from off-street parking. the charming villages of Crouch End and Muswell Hill, Smithfield Square Walking distance from Richmond, these spacious homes are close to a presents the very best of London living. number of exceptional educational facilities. Just south of Old Isleworth The concierge service, fully-equipped gym, gated underground parking and adjacent to the River Thames, this unique gated development features and Sainsbury’s superstore combine to create a new hub for North open parkland and refurbished Grade II Listed buildings located centrally London. Each of the intelligently designed apartments benefit from a high within a historic estate. level of specification featuring superbly equipped kitchens and the luxury of underfloor heating.

Richmond Road Email: [email protected] Smithfield Square Email: [email protected] Isleworth Website: www.isleworthhouse.co.uk Hornsey High Street Website: www.smithfield-square.co.uk TW7 7BP Telephone: +44 (0)20 3326 1233 N8 7QB Telephone: +44 (0)20 3002 9460

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Phase II at Kew Bridge West will sit adjacent to the Grade 1 Listed building that was Kew Bridge Pumping Station and which is now home to the Kew Bridge Steam Museum. The development will comprise 1, 2 and 3-bedroom residential apartments with 500 sq m of private amenity space, off- street parking spaces for residents and a mix of commercial facilities set within a communal courtyard. The development has been designed to reflect the views of the Standpipe Tower and will include landscaped grounds and linear park, providing a link between Phase I and Phase II that also includes a series of artworks especially commissioned by St James for Kew Bridge West.

Southall Gas Works

St James is delighted to have acquired this 80-acre site and is working with the London Borough of Ealing, the Greater London Authority and National Grid to develop what will be one of the capital’s largest and most important regeneration projects. Served by the future Southall Crossrail station, development of 22-29 Albert the brownfield site will provide at Embankment least 3,750 homes, commercial and community floorspace, as well as a This development will sit alongside new primary school and high-quality Merano Residences and The Corniche public realm and open space. and will occupy one of the most The completed development is premium locations on the River currently expected to be delivered Thames. A planning application has over a 30-year period and St James been submitted for a tower designed believes that the location can by David Walker Architects. The become one of the great new places development will comprise apartments to live in London. and penthouses as well as commercial and retail space. Construction is Our first sales launch for residential planned to commence in 2015. property is currently anticipated

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