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06: Estate briefing The inside track on the Marylebone Summer Fayre People 08: Local lives Bruce Fogle, veterinary surgeon Features 12: Hard yards The tale of a restaurateur, a desert and a ridiculous test of body and mind 18: Big interview England cricket star Stuart Broad on playing at Lord’s Culture 22: Austen maestro Simon Reade on adapting Pride and Prejudice for the stage 26: Laroque & roll Christina Laroque, the leader and vocal coach of the Marylebone Rock Choir 28: Book reviews Daunt Books’ offerings read and assessed 18: 30: Culture in brief An exhibition of cricket memorabilia and some late night music 34: 34: Guide Cultural events in June and July Style 38: Let it flow Young Marylebone-based designer Charlotte Simpson 42: Flat earth Jackie Modlinger catches up with French Sole founder Jane Winkworth 44: Style in brief German brand Oska, and a jewellery buyer from Oliver Bonas 46: What’s in? 10 Crosby at KJ’s Laundry Food 48: Petite France Le Vieux Comptoir brings a taste of France to the middle of Marylebone 52: Purl jam The bar at the forefront of London’s recent cocktail renaissance 54: Food & me Michael Dallaway of Dallaways Cherries 52: 56: Food in brief A rib of beef recipe, a new cocktail, and wines with vegetables History 60: At home with the general One of the most glamorous celebrities in Victorian Marylebone Health 64: A word in your ear Audiologist Adam Shulberg on treating hearing loss in the 21st century 66: Health in brief A new wellbeing studio in a Marylebone townhouse Space 68: Care in the community A major refurbishment of the crypt below St Marylebone Parish Church 70: Space in brief An agent profile, a place of interest and a property of the month 74: Property advertising

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STREET SUMMER IN FOOD THE CITY

For years now, the welcome The Marylebone Summer Fayre is coming presence of The Ginger Pig to town—and with your help it can and La Fromagerie on Moxon provide a big windfall for a worthy cause Street has ensured that this little road has developed a The Marylebone Summer Fayre is reputation as something of coming to town again on Sunday a foodie destination. Now 16th June—now firmly established this reputation is set to be as one of the best and most engaging bolstered by the arrival of a community events in London. handful of new but similarly As well as entertaining vast crowds high quality food retailers. of people and showcasing the very The delightful wine merchant best that Marylebone has to offer, and deli Le Vieux Comptoir, one of the main functions of the whose story is told in this fayre has always been to raise money issue’s food section, is already for charity, and this year’s beneficiary in place, and this summer will will again be Kids Company, a charity see the arrival, in the recently that provides practical, emotional reconfigured Shoon unit, of and educational support to many the hugely popular Rococo of London’s most vulnerable inner- chocolate shop, which is city children. The charity runs two moving from the high street, street level centres, a therapy house and Aubaine—a restaurant, in south London, a drop-in provision boulangerie and pâtisserie. in Camden, and therapeutic and Every Sunday, the farmers’ social work services in over 30 schools market adds to the flavour of around the capital. It reaches more the area by setting up in the than 17,000 children, offering bands will keep performing until Moxon Street carpark. 2013 them safety, support and hope for 8pm, meaning even more time for marks the tenth anniversary the future. the music to play and the tills to ring. of the market—a notable Many of the area’s restaurants and As well as funding and organising the achievement and one well retailers are again offering punters event, the Howard de Walden Estate worth celebrating for the the chance to add £1 to their bill for is covering all the costs of the popular wonderful atmosphere that it Kids Company. The retailers have Festival Bar—this means that every has done so much to foster. also come together to provide a penny spent there goes directly to The market will be out in spectacular haul of prizes for a huge Kids Company. There aren’t many force for the summer fayre, fundraising tombola, which is being occasions in life when you can as will the Moxon Street food run on the day by the estate agency sup Pimm’s or beer while feeling retailers. Together with the Sandfords and volunteers from Kids the warm glow of having given to area’s many other restaurants, Company. There are some amazing charity, so this is one fundraising cafes and food stalls, they will prizes on offer—visit the Marylebone opportunity that can be genuinely again ensure that the event, Summer Fayre website for updates on savoured. The bar is being manned like Moxon Street itself, is every the current list of prizes. by staff from The Marylebone pub food lover’s idea of heaven. Paddington Street Gardens, and Waitrose, whose generosity is which hosts the main music stage, much appreciated. Toby Shannon, chief executive, will again be at the centre of the Although the fayre now has a The Howard de Walden Estate fundraising effort, and this year the well-established footprint, there are

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a large infl atable archway (like Wembley Stadium, but softer). Highlights include speed bikes, Spider Mountain and the Knight Frank infl atable football game. Anyone exhausted by the mere thought of such exertion might be better served visiting the Spa Area on Paddington Street, where therapists from local health and beauty companies will be offering a variety of treatments, massages and products to help visitors unwind. This year sees the farmers’ market taking to the streets again, with stalls lining Aybrook Street offering a fantastic selection of British produce. This summer marks the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the regular farmers’ market in Marylebone—an anniversary well worth celebrating with the purchase of some seasonal vegetables or high quality meat. Marylebone will, as ever, be fi lled with extraordinary food and drink. The now familiar cast of dancers will be returning to Devonshire Street to get the streets jumping, the Cabbages & Frocks market will be busily trading in the shadows of the parish some subtle changes to this year’s church, and Moxon Street car park set-up. New Cavendish Street is will again be fi lled with children’s becoming more of a focus than ever activities and fairground rides, before—a result of the recent infl ux including for the fi rst time a kids’ of some fantastic new retailers and maze in which your children can be restaurants. There will be plenty of mislaid just long enough for you to outdoor tables along this stretch, have a good sit down. Marylebone allowing the likes of Fat of the Land, Lane sees the return of the acoustic Galleria, Nordic Bakery, Amanzi Tea stage, providing a mellow soundtrack and the new burger specialists Slabs to a street fi lled with food and al to cater to al fresco diners. Energetic fresco dining. LINKS entertainment will be provided by The Estate will also have its the Salsa Dance Arena while gentler own marketing tent on the high Marylebone Summer Fayre thrills will be on offer thanks to a street, with staff on hand to answer 16 June selection of buskers. Some small your questions. And of course the 10am-5pm (streets) fairground rides, child-friendly Marylebone Journal will be there 10am-6:30pm (fairground) retailers and a good selection of cake as always, providing readers 11am-8pm (Paddington Street Gardens) make this a perfect spot for families. with the opportunity to pick up marylebonesummerfayre.com The Sports Area will return to the back issues and share their thoughts top of the high street, decorated with with us.

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We have been local for coming up to 40 years now. Our kids—Emily, Ben and Tamara—were born in the same obstetricians, on Welbeck Street, and they grew up playing in the gardens in Portland Place. I’d take the paddling pool there and use the community pump to fi ll it—honestly, I really think they thought playing in a pool circumvented by red buses was normal for a while—but when we’d decided, at my wife Julia’s insistence, to settle in London, it was on my condition that we rent a small cottage in the countryside, which we did. We stayed at weekends. I grew up in Canada in a remote place by a lake in the middle of nowhere, and it was important to me that while my kids were growing up they’d wake up to cows outside the window at least once a week. I still think of that lake in Canada as my spiritual home. When I fi nally kick the bucket I want my ashes scattered there. Ben, too, always says — 108 Marylebone Lane — the summers spent with my dad, Neatly nestled in The Marylebone Hotel fi shing and hiking, were the most formative in determining his future 108 Marylebone Lane | London | W1U 2QE career. Now he lives in Scotland with 020 7969 3900 | 108marylebonelane.com

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temporary surgery in a basement he had actually lined up a job for me near to where he used to meet his in virology, which is what I wanted mistress, there weren’t many vets. to do. But I turned it down. For Vets would only set up in wealthy areas: no conceivable reason that I can Marylebone wasn’t, and for the fi rst remember, I announced that I wanted few years I had all of north London, to work in a zoo for a bit and got offered including the City, to attend. My clients a choice between London and San were mainly pub cats and dogs, and Francisco zoos. I chose London simply when I took blood samples from these because I’d never been before and it pets they would have extraordinarily sounded exotic—but I don’t even like For no conceivable reason high liver enzyme levels from the beer zoo animals. I stuck it out four months that I can remember, I they’d drunk. That tradition of pub before moving on to be an assistant in pets has gone now, which is a pity—not the surgery where I met Julie. announced that I wanted to least because if you looked after their Nowadays I divide my time between work in a zoo for a bit and dog as a vet, then they would look after my clinic on York Street, where I got offered a choice between you when you came into the pub— work four days a week, and my work London and San Francisco it’s a lovely way to do business. for charities—Hearing Dogs for There was a lot of old fashioned Deaf People and Humane Society zoos. I chose London simply bartering back then, and when I International—which I do at weekends because I’d never been before worked on Seymour Street we had and evenings. I’ve just got back from and it sounded exotic—but a wonderful relationship with the Cuba, where the situation is dire I don’t even like zoo animals plumber, the electrician and the because it’s such a poor country, with delicatessen that way. Those were the no government support for veterinary days when Marylebone High Street care. The vets there are brilliant, but was the most boring in London. they just don’t have the money or the New Quebec Street was where all equipment. My task this afternoon is to the plumbers and builders were, and make a few calls and try to source old neither Julie nor I could have imagined x-ray machines for them. Most clinics this dull pedestrian area, which you are switching to digital here. went to for convenience, could change When you’re old like me, getting so much. When we treated ourselves involved with things like that, and with working at her career (as an actress) every Sunday to breakfast at the Hearing Dogs (which I co-founded in London far longer than I had. Greenery in the Churchill Hotel it was with another Marylebone resident, It wasn’t fair that just because full of locals and terribly parochial. Lady Babs Wright) is really satisfying— I was a male, we should move back Now the same place is Locanda in part because it’s easier to do. You’re to Canada, so we stayed. Locatelli and has a Michelin star. inherently respected, because you’re We met across an operating table I grew up surrounded by animals— older, and you feel quite happy not in Knightsbridge. She’d brought my dad was always bringing injured beating around the bush, so you can her golden retriever, Honey, in for animals home and leaving my mum get away with more. More importantly, treatment in the surgery I was working to look after them—but when I when you’ve been in this business as at, and, after seeing I was rather slow started veterinary school I didn’t love long as I have (and I’m 70) there’s on the uptake, she asked me out. the subject at all. I’d only signed up bound to be somebody you’ve met over We celebrated our 40th wedding because my best friend had, and when the years who can help you out. anniversary last year. I’ve had a clinic he switched to medicine I failed my The funny thing is, I’m the baby in Marylebone almost all that time: fi rst year. I only reapplied to prove in the partnership—my colleagues fi rst in Seymour Street, where I moved them wrong, really—but in my year are 74 and 75. It makes you wonder because I didn’t want to tread on the out at a virology business I became what it is that makes us still want to go toes of my former employer, then here fascinated by viruses and how they to work each day And the answer, of on York Street. In those days, people travel, and by the time I started again course, is the bundle of fur that has who lived south of the parks would at vet school I was hooked. just hopped up into my lap here. never venture north, so I knew that if I From then on it was easy, because To spend all day with dogs and cats, was based in Marylebone none of his when you’re interested in something and to be able to do something customers would come here. it’s not work at all. The academic for them and the people who want I’d also found that, aside from dean took an interest in me because to take care of them is the most a man in Swiss Cottage who had a I did so well, and when I’d fi nished rewarding thing there is.

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HARD YAR DS The extraordinary tale of a restaurateur, a desert and a ridiculous test of body and mind

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Tony Kitous has been a prominent Day four of the Marathon des When my cousin Nassim was Marylebone restaurateur for 20 years, Sables is the stage that makes you 15, he was diagnosed with a brain having opened his fi rst establishment or breaks you—75.7km, 47 miles, tumour. For the next few years, he in 1993 at the tender age of 22. His in the searing heat of the Sahara, went up and down, sometimes doing burgeoning stable of restaurants, which after three days of intense physical well, sometimes very ill. Then last May have done much to popularise Middle punishment. If you fi nish that day, we heard that the cancer had become Eastern cuisine, includes Levant on you’ll fi nish the race. But plenty of extremely aggressive and he only had Jason Court and the hugely popular people don’t make it. You start at weeks to live. It was a huge shock. He Comptoir Libanais chain. In April this 8am, and it takes at least 12 hours— was very young—just 20 years old. year, driven on by a family tragedy, Tony for some runners it’s 24 hours or He was such a lovely kid, and hadn’t took part in the Marathon des Sables, one more. Your body is punished, but really had a chance to experience life. of the world’s most ridiculously intense it’s your mind that’s really tested— And yet now he was going to die. physical challenges—running 250km in despite the agony, you have to fi nd I left Algeria more than 20 years just six days in the middle of the Sahara ways to keep your legs going. One ago, but we are still a very close-knit desert. It’s the equivalent of running of the top runners counts the whole family. When his parents managed to Dover and back, carrying a heavy way: one, two, three, four, up to 100, to fi nd Nassim a place in a hospital rucksack, while being slow-roasted in a then back to one, on and on and on. in Paris, lots of the family travelled large oven. Most people spend two years Another runner I spoke to said that to France to be with him. When I preparing. Tony had six months. And he imagined someone had taken went out there, I knew that it was was fat. This is the inspiring, moving his daughter away and was keeping going to be a tough experience, but and, quite frankly, completely bonkers her captive at the fi nish line. For me, I wasn’t prepared for just how tough story of a man with absolutely no sense I thought about why I was there— it would be—there he was, drifting of his own limits about my cousin. in and out of consciousness, with a

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tumour the size of a grapefruit, half eating out every night. So I decided the size of his head. The whole family to run the Marathon des Sables. suffered—it was really hard to see. I knew it wouldn’t bring my cousin When the day came that he passed back, but it might raise some money away, I was there in the room. You for Macmillan and for the hospital in can feel it—it’s like a candle going France where he’d passed away. out. There is nothing you can do, Usually you have to book a place nothing you can say. You go numb. two years in advance, but I knew This is life, this is reality. someone I could call. It was the We take life for granted—we really beginning of September, and I had do. If you spend just an hour on that Day two was even tougher, just over six months to prepare. ward, seeing those kids, hearing with steep, steep hills. I had barely done any exercise for fi ve their stories, it makes you realise years. That fi rst day at the gym it was that you have to make the most of Sometimes you had to pull like an elephant on that treadmill. every moment you are given. You get yourself up with a rope. You’re I managed 5km, but only just. sucked into everyday life, dragged grappling along, digging in I was disciplined, driven, eating along by it. You complain about petty with your feet, your knees, properly, in the gym every day. things, you worry about work, you The weight began to fall away, and get upset by the football results— even your hands, with your my fi tness began to return. I was it’s all just so pointless. When I got face up against the rocks. running 5km, then 8km, then 10km. back to London, I knew I had to do It’s loose underfoot, you’re Then in mid-December I picked up something—a tribute to my cousin, worried you’re going to fall a calf injury. When I was told that it but also something that would would take six to eight weeks to heal, change my own life. I had become fat I was heartbroken, but after a week I and complacent. I was almost 100kg, started training again—just cycling

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and rowing. I still had this vague hope that I would be okay. By mid-February, when I was able to start running properly again, I had less than two months left. Every day I was there on the treadmill. The guys at the gym told me that I was pushing it, and I said, “I know, but I have to.” In March alone I lost around 16kg— no exaggeration. By the end I was averaging 32km every day. I would wake up, drink four shots of coffee and go. I wanted to raise £10,000, so I set up a JustGiving page and I emailed everyone I knew. When you see the donations starting to come in, when you read all the messages of support, it really motivates you. In less than four weeks I had £40,000 pledged to me and I felt like I was fl ying. I was running on the treadmill watching the TV, and I heard the manager of Tottenham Hotspur being interviewed, and he said something I’ll never forget. He said: “It’s the mind that controls the body.” At that moment, my body was doing everything I wanted just because I wanted it so much. That day I ran 50km in 5 hours and 5 minutes. And you want to be. You can take a mat, I began suffering almost the next day I got up and did it again. you can take a pillow, you can take a immediately. My back was hurting, When the day came to fl y to hairbrush if you really want. But you because I hadn’t trained enough—all Morocco, I felt awful, like I had fl u. have to carry it all. Some people want to I had done was run on a treadmill— I had no energy at all. I had sleep rough at night and run light the and the weight of my rucksack was completely overdone it, training for next day, others want it the other way giving me trouble. You’ve got to carry six weeks without a day off. After round. I tried to sleep as comfortably so much—distress fl ares, whistle, we arrived, the competitors were as possible and run as comfortably as knife, anti-venom, foil blankets. You driven for fi ve or six hours on nice possible. Somehow I managed to do can’t take any chances—in 1994 one air conditioned buses towards the neither—I slept rough and ran with a of the competitors got lost. He started desert. When the terrain became huge weight on my back. in Morocco and was discovered in a impassable, we were picked up in We started running at 8:30am. hospital in Algeria. He survived by army lorries that drove us into the The fi rst stage was 37.2km. I knew I drinking his own urine. People have wilderness. It felt like going to war— was fi t, but the conditions could not died. If you were in Europe, this race except the conditions were worse! have been further from my gym— would be illegal. No government You think you’re a soldier, fi ghting sand dunes, stones, steep hills, dry would allow it. your way through just to stay alive. rivers, all at temperatures of up to Day two was even tougher, with That night we were allocated our 55C. Blisters are a major problem. steep, steep hills. Sometimes you tents and met the people we’d be And if you run on those blisters, you had to pull yourself up with a rope. sharing with. It was a rough night, get blisters on your blisters. I wrapped You’re grappling along, digging in sleeping on stones. The organisers pick my feet every day, then ran in ski with your feet, your knees, even your up the tents each morning and drive socks, compression tights, gators, and hands, with your face up against the them to the fi nish line of that day’s shoes three or four sizes too big. The rocks. It’s loose underfoot, you’re stage, but everything else you have to heat was extraordinary, but I’d rather worried you’re going to fall. One of carry, so it’s up to you how comfortable be too hot than have blisters. the runners had a prosthetic leg.

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LORD OF THE MANOR This summer, all eyes will turn to Lord’s, the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club, as one of the world’s most intense sporting rivalries resumes. England fast bowler Stuart Broad talks to Viel Richardson about the Ashes, responding to pressure, and playing at the historic home of cricket

His grandfather was a member of what had been a fi nely balanced get on all three boards was Sir Ian the MCC, and his father scored three match with an extraordinary burst of Botham in 1978; I was eight at the half centuries for England at Lord’s. seven wickets in just 11 overs, leaving time. I never dreamt that I would get So you would think that, such is its New Zealand completely shattered. a Test match hundred so to be able familiarity, coming to the ‘home of At Test level, his three best innings to get one at Lord’s was incredible. cricket’ might not hold quite the same with the bat and his two best innings If most people could choose to score magic for Stuart Broad as for someone with the ball have all come at Lord’s. a century anywhere in the world it like me, whose childhood experiences To say that he’s had “a bit” of success would probably be here. I remember were fi ltered solely through the dulcet here is like saying that Mike Gatting just how much it meant to Freddie tones of Test Match Special—but you has had “a bit” of lunch. Flintoff to get a fi ve-for and get onto would be wrong. There is a tradition at this famous two of the boards. So to get on all “When my granddad brought me old ground that every player who three will live with me forever; it is down to the ground for my fi rst visit scores a century, takes fi ve wickets in an something that no one can take away aged about 12, I was so excited about innings or 10 wickets in a match has his from you.” a trip to Lord’s that I was out of bed at name etched onto the Honours Boards He is full of praise for how the 5am,” says the England fast bowler. that hang in the dressing rooms at the MCC turns an appearance at the It is a feeling that has never left Stuart, heart of the historic pavilion. It is one of ground into an even more special even though the ensuing years have the game’s greatest honours to see your occasion. “If you get fi ve-for or a 100 seen him make the trip to the famous name up there, recorded for posterity; here they give you a picture of the ground on many occasions since. an honour many of the world’s greatest board, a picture of you celebrating, “I have been fortunate to play quite a players—Sachin Tendulkar, Muttiah and a scorecard. Also if you win a Test few games here now,” he says, “and it Muralitharan, Brian Lara, Shane match here they give you a score card is an amazingly special place to play. Warne, Ricky Ponting—have been imprinted in gold writing. Lord’s is a My fi rst Test match was here in 2008, denied. Getting onto one of these lists lovely place to come—you are treated and I have been lucky enough to have is impressive— and Stuart Broad’s like cricketing royalty.” a bit of personal success here.” name sits on all three, one of only four But for all its grandeur, Lord’s is at When Stuart says this, it is people ever to achieve this, dating all heart a raw sporting arena—a place with a touch of classic English the way back to 1884. where the wide open spaces leave understatement. In his last visit to the “It is incredibly special,” he says. a cricketer with nowhere to hide. ground, in May this year, he turned “I looked it up and the last person to And it’s not an easy place to play.

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LORD OF THE MANOR

Stuart Broad celebrates a wicket at Lord’s for England against South Africa in 2012

a ground provided the club indemnify him the fi rst game played between the MCC and LORD’S against any fi nancial loss. He leased land Hertfordshire on 22nd June 1814. from the Portman Estate and built a pitch In 1825, at the age of 70, Lord sold the A-LEAPING on Dorset Fields, the area now covered by ground to the cricketer and Bank of England Dorset Square. He named the ground Lord’s director William Ward. Lord’s transformed and erected a high perimeter fence, while over the years with taverns, grandstands, a grazing sheep kept the grass short. The new pavilion and scoreboards. The grazing fi rst match played at Lord’s was between sheep were fi nally evicted and replaced with Middlesex and Essex on 31st May 1787. a mowing machine, and in 1864, the fi rst Jean-Paul Aubin-Parvu on Thomas Lord and The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was groundsman was appointed to push it. the birth of the Marylebone Cricket Club founded that same year. In 1788, the MCC In 1877, the MCC invited Middlesex to played its inaugural game against its ‘parent’, adopt Lord’s as its county ground. Seven The exclusive White Conduit Cricket Club, the White Conduit Club. The MCC laid down years later, in the fi rst Test match played which played its matches on White Conduit a Code of Laws, requiring the wickets to be there, England beat Australia by an innings. Fields in Islington in the 1780s, boasted pitched 22 yards apart and detailing how Lord’s remains the home of the MCC, several members of the aristocracy among players could be given out. These laws were which retains a prominent role in the game, its number. Apparently unhappy at the quickly adopted throughout the game. especially in promoting the laws of cricket watching hoi polloi shamelessly voicing their With land values rising, the ground was and safeguarding its spirit. Lord’s remains opinions, they turned to Thomas Lord, a sold in 1809. Lord dug up the pitch and the world’s foremost cricketing venue. practice bowler and attendant at the club, to relocated to North Bank, Regent’s Park. He Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman fi nd them a new, more private place to play. was on the move again fi ve years later as summed up the special appeal of the place. Lord, a Yorkshireman, was a shrewd the Regent’s Park Canal was about to be “It does not have the best of pitches, it does entrepreneur who traded in booze and cut through the middle of the wicket. The not have the best of playing fi elds but it has dabbled in property. He agreed to develop ground was moved to its present site, with got an atmosphere you can feel.”

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Something that might surprise those terrible watcher, a really nervous one. if you start to think too much about who have only seen those wide open I’m fi ne when I’m on the fi eld and what’s happening in the opposition spaces from afar is that the most can infl uence the game. If there’s team. I have always taken the view that revered cricket ground in the world a particularly tense period going whether I am playing league cricket isn’t level. on, you can fi nd yourself watching on a Saturday for my county or in front “There is a fi ve or six foot slope things unfold on the dressing room of 80,000 people in an Ashes Test, it running from the northwest to the telly because there’s no space on the doesn’t change my routine of how I southeast of the ground,” says Stuart. balcony. There’s always a bit of a delay get the ball down the other end. As a “The slope can make this a diffi cult on the television pictures, so you’ll bowler, I still have to aim for the top place to play. If you are not used to it, hear the roar of the crowd and then of off stump, as a batsman it doesn’t it can put you off your game. So while there’s a short lag before you know change where you are going to play there is an awareness of the special what it’s for. It not a situation designed your shots. When you are out there nature of the place, on game day to keep people like me calm!” in the middle you have to try and not you are concentrating on how you’re A high level of tension is almost let the whole circus surrounding the going to deal with the conditions in certain to be in evidence when it comes event affect your game.” front of you. It is something that can to the main event of this summer— But for all his claims of ignoring really put bowlers off. I had to learn the Ashes series—during which the hoopla and treating every game how to bowl here. A great deal of Australia will visit Lord’s to do battle the same, Stuart is a sportsman who batting and bowling has to do with for the soul of English cricket, the comes to life in the big moments, being well balanced when making a ghost of which resides in a terracotta the big games, the big series—that shot or bowling. As a bowler you are urn fi rst presented in about 1882 in second inning burst against New arriving at speed after a long run-up Melbourne—possibly the world’s Zealand being a case in point. and some bowlers really struggle with smallest and most delicate trophy. “I would say I’m a ‘grab the bull by the slope pushing them off balance The contest is one of the oldest in the horns’ type cricketer. I always in their delivery stride.” international sport, and one of the want the ball, and if I can change The honours board would suggest most fi ercely fought. “You have to tell momentum with the bat I’ll try that the slope suits Stuart, but there yourself that it is just another Test and play a few shots. Changing the has been some serendipity involved series, but the English love beating momentum in cricket can turn a in his affi nity with the conditions. Australia, they have a real passion game. So if we’re on the back foot, He has taken most of his wickets for it and the media attention is I’m the type of cricketer who will running ‘down the hill’, as most off the chart,” Stuart explains. “In throw a few punches to get back on cricketers call it. Initially he struggled, international cricket you get used to the front foot. It is about trying to but had no choice but to persist— facing the highs and lows, but in an get momentum back in your favour, Jimmy Anderson, England’s premier Ashes series because of the increased and then pushing on. I really love it. strike bowler, always gets fi rst choice interest and pressure those highs I thrive when the pressure’s on and of ends, and he prefers running up and lows are much more extreme. you are expected to perform” the hill. Unfortunately for his many If you win, everyone is, ‘Wow it’s So Australians be warned: this victims, Stuart’s perseverance with amazing!’ And if you lose, everyone hugely talented, combative cricketer the slope bore dividends, and now he is, ‘What’s going on?’ So things are will—all being well—be ready wouldn’t have it any other way. just intensifi ed. It is fantastic, and a and waiting to continue one of the The century he scored here—169 great experience to play in.” longest-running rivalries in sport. against Pakistan in 2010—is his only So how does he see things in And when he faces them at the home hundred in Test cricket. “It is a great the Australian camp, where there of their chosen game, he will be place to bat because you get such value has been some very un-Australian doing so in an arena that has so far for your shots,” he tells me. “If you confusion of late, resulting in several been very good to him indeed. play your shots and the ball beats the surprises in the squad chosen to tour “It will always be a place that is very infi eld it is four because the ground England? “I don’t read too much close to me,” he says. “It has a great is so fast. That suits my style of play into any problems the Aussies may feel even when there’s no one in the because I like hitting boundaries.” have at the moment,” he insists. “Any stands. When you walk out there as a When I ask if there is any downsides issues they have had will make them player, there is a general buzz about to this famous old venue, a quick stronger as a team, and they will the ground, with the champagne smile fl ashes across Stuart’s face. arrive fully ready to beat us in our own corks fl ying. I’ve been out fi elding at “The only bad thing I suppose is the backyard. We have held the Ashes for third man kicking champagne corks dressing room balcony, because you a few years now and they want them off the outfi eld. There really is no can only fi t fi ve people on it. I’m a back. Besides it is always dangerous other place like it.”

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Clare Finney meets Simon It is a truth universally acknowledged A freelance writer and producer Reade, the writer who that a single man or woman looking who has adapted numerous novels for took on the daunting task to adapt Pride and Prejudice does so stage and television, the existence of in the shadow of the BBC. Not only Firth’s Darcy proved no more of an of adapting Pride and does the image of Colin Firth in a wet impediment to Simon Reade’s taking Prejudice for the stage—an shirt remain inextricably associated on Jane Austen than the curious fact adaptation that provides the with Mr Darcy, but the possibility that, when he fi rst came across the that anyone could surpass Andrew author’s work in the form of Mansfi eld centrepiece to the Regent’s Davies’s sensitive and intelligent Park, he hated her. “We studied her at Park Open Air Theatre’s handling of one of the best-loved school when I was 17,” he sighs, “and summer schedule books in English seems remote at I was so bored.” Consigning her and best. Yet when the Theatre Royal her “trivial, enclosed world”—or so he Bath asked Simon Reade to adapt thought then—to the shelf, he pursued Jane Austen’s masterpiece, he didn’t his theatre career, fi rst as literary even hesitate. manager at Notting Hill Gate, then

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deeply political, with class war and get teeth round Austen’s language,” as interfamilial crises,” he laughs. Partly, Simon calls it—and to project. In fact, he attributes this to him not being the protagonists of Pride and Prejudice “an arrogant 17-year-old boy”. While are pretty young—nearer school- by no means averse to the teaching leaving age than the comparatively of Austen to schoolchildren (“the ancient 35 that Colin Firth was when more familiar you are, the more he pulled on those famous breeches. there is to rediscover”) he thinks it Their coming-of-age is one of the main shouldn’t be done without heed for fi lters through which Simon distilled Austen’s political and social vision. the 350-odd page novel into a two There is always an His school’s choice of text didn’t hour play. “Elizabeth Bennet, and to expectation when you are help: Mansfi eld Park might be a a certain extent Darcy too, are young worthy piece of fi ction, but a heroine people discovering the adult world working with familiar referred to by Austen as “my Fanny” and bringing their childhood zeal and material, but it’s about was “guaranteed to raise titters among imagination to bear on it.” Together, reinventing it, telling 17-year-old boys”. they embark on a learning experience a familiar story in an Though wary of putting too encompassing everything from sexual personal a stamp on his work, as the attraction to the chopped logic and unfamiliar way father of three daughters Simon coded formalities of monsters like couldn’t help but bring his own Catherine de Burgh, and it is through experiences to bear in adapting Pride this lens that the audience will see and Prejudice. “There’s a lot about them in Simon’s play. Mr Bennet and his relationship with The second key fi lter for Simon his daughters in the play,” he says, was Austen’s political awareness—so “particularly Elizabeth.” You’ll fi nd deeply embedded in her glittering a more sympathetic interpretation sentences it has often been overlooked. of Mrs Bennet than you’re perhaps “Looking back, I think it was mainly used to, too. While the prospect of this political part I didn’t appreciate,” being left destitute if her daughters Simon says. “The criticism at the time aren’t all married off is not one that was quite dismissive—it was generally Simon will ever face, having care of believed that her society and politics four children means he is conscious of were only to do with inter-parish issues how distressing that must have been— and that she wrote in a bubble—but and, together with director Deborah there were many clues to the contrary Bruce, he is determined to do justice which have only come to light in the at the Royal Shakespeare Company, to a lady who, for all her faults, was past 30 years.” Revisiting the novel with where he adapted his fi rst book, Tales “pretty tenacious, and had a big task the benefi t of maturity, he was able to from Ovid by Ted Hughes. Not once on her hands”. identify these nuggets and bring them, did Austen touch him. Then, in 2009, Casting for Regent’s Park will be quite literally, into the spotlight Theatre Royal Bath wanted him to everything. When I speak to Simon, One of these clues in particular bring Pride and Prejudice to the stage. only the roles of Mr Darcy and a few stood out for Simon: a comment from Before he knew it, Simon was sisters have been assigned, but he writing out Austen’s tome by hand— has a pretty good idea of what they’re LINKS his tried and trusted approach to looking for. “One of the things that’s adapting books for stage—and important with this play, particularly Pride and Prejudice discovering for the fi rst time that the Open Air Theatre version, is that it 20 June – 20 July this “trivial” melee of marriage needs good classical actors with welly Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre concerns contained more than he in their voice.” This doesn’t necessarily openairtheatre.com realised. “Suddenly, I was looking at mean older performers, but it does it again and thinking, gosh, this is mean a good ability to enunciate—“to

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Mr Darcy about the importance of keeping up family libraries “in such days as these”. “He is an aristocrat of old family who, up until recently, were the only ones educated and rich enough to own and read books,” Simon explains. “Austen wrote this just after the French Revolution— a time when the middle class had been rousing the rabble and looking to cut off the heads of aristocrats a The criticism of Jane Austen few years previously. That phrase was quite dismissive—it was ‘in such days as these’ gives away Darcy’s belief that it is his duty as an generally believed that her aristocrat to hoard culture lest the society and politics were only middle classes get a hold.” to do with inter-parish issues This throwaway remark offers a vital and that she wrote in a clue to Darcy’s brand of snobbery and Austen’s knowledge of contemporary bubble—but there are many affairs, and such clues are everywhere. clues to the contrary Far from leaving the Napoleonic wars out of her writing (as she is often accused) the troops are brought right into the heart of Longbourne— and indeed the Bennet girls—in the deceptively attractive shape of their involvement.” In the case of “Novels were written to be a shared Wickham, a young offi cer who has Michael Morpurgo, whose books experience, as well as a personal one,” been stationed in Meryton, a nearby Simon has adapted, this involves Simon says, “and that’s inherent in the garrison town. It was, says Simon, the chatting on the phone and visiting his text.” Austen would almost certainly 17th century equivalent of Wooten home in Devon; in the case of Austen, have been in the reading seat: doing Bassett. “If you set a story today in a it was reading as much as possible the voices, acting and bringing to garrison town and you talked about about her life and work. life the text in a way that, according meeting these soldiers in a pub and She was a prolifi c letter writer, and to Simon, can still be heard in the them having affairs, you wouldn’t need a number of lines in Simon’s version rhythm of her letters and novels. to explain about Iraq or Afghanistan,” of Pride and Prejudice come not from For the man charged with adapting it he continues, “because we’d know the novel, but from her epistles to for stage, this seems a blessing. But I about it. It’s only because we don’t Cassandra. “I have been enabled to still fi nd myself wondering how much know the history that we don’t realise give a considerable improvement of the BBC’s totemic version has turned how specifi c she’s being.” dignity to my cap, which was before this otherwise hallowed challenge The lure of the Redcoats for middle too nidgetty to please me,” she writes into a curse. class ladies and the revolutionary in one. This line is resurrected in the Simon smiles patiently. “There is fears among landed gentry were the play in Lydia’s mouth—an endearing always an expectation when you are backdrop for a novel which, while tribute to the young author and working with familiar material,” he not published until 1813, was actually the bright, sparkling manner in shrugs, “but it’s about reinventing written 16 years earlier. Austen’s which she communicated on paper. it, telling a familiar story in an brother was an active member of the Novelist she may be to the core, but unfamiliar way.” While our favourite militia at that time and, as Simon “it’s a dramatist’s punctuation and lines and your favourite characters knew from reading the author’s dialogue” that Simon sees, and brings will be there, he reassures me, “the manuscripts, letters and other trivia, to life in his version for the stage. hope is that you’ll hear it as if for the wrote home often. Such immersion Looking back, this is not very fi r s t t i m e ” . in Austen’s life was vital in informing surprising. Going to the theatre was Colin Firth in a white shirt it Simon’s adaptation. “I know other a major pastime in the pre-screen won’t be, but with such intelligence, people try to keep their distance, era, and this and the practice of sensitivity and insight as Simon but I’m the opposite,” he tells me. “I reading aloud in the evening would patently possesses, that won’t respect my writers, and I love having have inevitably infl uenced writers. necessarily be such a bad thing.

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OPEN SEASON

Timothy Sheader, artistic director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, on the pleasures and challenges of staging plays

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How does weather affect your job? Pinter. For me it’s about big casts, big stories, so cold they had to come off at the interval My job is to select and then plan the shows big plots, shows that have an epic quality. and be wrapped in silver foil blankets. from the artistic side of things, so the weather comes into play from the very What’s the best weather for performance? How do the actors cope with the extremes? beginning of that process. What show We don’t just say we perform in good Unfortunately you can’t design costumes are you going to put on? How might it be weather, we perform in most weather—and around the weather. In Into the Woods the affected by different types of weather? It’s weather affects your live experience. Theatre set was mulch and wood chip barks on the no good doing a sun-bleached version of is about being live and present in that space fl oor and it rained a lot, so the stepsisters some Shakespearean comedy. When I fi rst and that time—something being uniquely wore brogues instead of high heels which started I directed Twelfth Night and set it created for that evening. It’s even more were slipping into bog. But when we did Lord in Brazil, with pirates throwing their heads the case in outdoor theatre because the of the Flies the second half opened with an under fountains and throwing melons around performance is affected by the quality of eight-year-old standing in his y-fronts and a stage. It was great when the weather was light and the weather. If it’s been raining all life belt—and even if it was 10pm and wet great, but it didn’t really work when shivering day and the rain stops 10 minutes before the and cold he was there in his pants to do the under blankets. You have to pick things show starts there’s an electricity in the air. scene. We take care of them as much as that will benefi t from being exposed to the The acoustics are amazing and the quality possible—you have someone waiting off elements rather than relying on a particular of light is amazing and everything is just that stage with blankets and a hot water bottle one. You want something organic and much sharper. So rain doesn’t put us off. and all the rest of it—but getting cold and wet visceral, so that whatever the weather it adds and sunburnt is just part of the gig. an intensity. It’s basically picking plays that Any particularly memorable weather events? aren’t going to fall apart from being outside The weather in this country changes so fast. Any advice for the audience? and that are going to reach out into this big I remember on a production of the Crucible Most of our audiences do their research— auditorium of shared light and benefi t from I had 20 girls sat on tree stumps throughout follow the weather, check what’s going to the audience seeing the nightfall together. most of the play. They just had to stare and happen, work out what to wear and how make small and very specifi c movements for many blankets to bring. Sun hats and sun Anything you would absolutely avoid? almost three hours. And in one performance cream can be important. Basically you have I try to avoid naturalism. I don’t think it’s good one of the girls couldn’t go back on after the to think you are sitting for two and half hours to do a kitchen sink drama, or something set interval because she was getting sunstroke, in any weather, and you will have a better in a drawing room. I wouldn’t choose to do and then that very same night they were all experience by being prepared.

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You may never have met her, but pop, gospel and motown—and meet LAROQUE the chances are you’ve heard her. every Thursday during term times Marylebone resident Christina at St Cyprian’s on Glentworth Street. AND ROLL Laroque, a talented singer, pianist The church has lovely acoustics, so you and performer, is the leader and really get to hear how good we sound.” Christina Laroque is the leader and vocal vocal coach of the Marylebone Christina is now set to make sonic coach of the Marylebone Rock Choir. This Rock Choir. For the past four waves as a solo artist. “I’ve started year sees her release her fi rst solo single and years this hip-swinging choir has working with a new manager, who’s perform with the choir at the O2 Arena. performed melodious marvels at also an excellent songwriter in the Jean-Paul Aubin-Parvu hears her story the Marylebone Christmas Lights. R&B, pop genre. He wrote a song “That’s always one of our favourite for me which he believes is going to performances,” says Christina. “We break me into the industry. So when absolutely love it, especially the snow this single is released, which should coming on when we sing Let It Snow.” be sometime in May, we’re going to Marylebone Rock Choir is open fi nd out how people react to me as to everyone and currently has 150 Christina Laroque.” members. “You don’t need any The single is called Fade Away. previous singing experience or be able “The song is about not letting to read music,” says Christina. “And your dreams fade away,” explains there’s no audition. People fi nd that Christina. “It actually goes quite their voices improve within the fi rst well with my story. The lyrics are: few months, so my role is to ensure ‘No matter what religion you are, everyone has a great time while also or where you come from, believe in teaching them about music and vocal yourself and don’t let your dreams technique. We sing feel good songs— fade away.’”

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So is Christina looking forward little town in Ukraine to the capital to the single’s release? “I can’t wait,” of England, Europe, the world. she beams. There’s a lot happening The fi rst year was really hard because right now.” Such as making the I didn’t speak any English.” promotional video: “Just a simple It was through music that Christina, video to show how I look and to the daughter of classical musicians, show the song,” says Christina. This would fi nd her confi dence. She had won’t be her fi rst time in front of given her fi rst performance at the age the camera. “I have also done a few of six and started piano and music promotional videos at Paul Weller’s lessons aged nine, as well as singing in Black Barn Studios. He offered me a children’s choirs. “And when we moved Laroque has the word rock day in his studio where I recorded two to London the fi rst thing my mum in it, but because of the rock songs with a full-on band—an did was put me into a music school,” amazing experience. But they were remembers Christina. “She looked for spelling it’s also quite jazzy, cover versions of other people’s songs, a music school even before she looked which is perfect, because which on You Tube is very useful to for an academic school.” I love all styles of music. have. Hopefully people like those Christina attended Trinity College My real name is Dmytryk, versions and then start following you.” of Music (then in Marylebone), Christina came up with her stage before joining the Junior Academy which is not quite as name—Laroque—while on holiday ranks at the Royal Academy of Music musical sounding in the south of France. “I was driving to study voice and piano. “It was a real through the mountains with my inspiration to be surrounded by the brother and his friend. We were trying older musicians,” says Christina. “You to come up with a good stage name, could hear all sorts of music in the thinking along the lines of Florence rooms. It’s such a lovely building and and the Machine, Marina and the there is also the museum.” Diamonds. One of the guys suggested Aged 18, Christina left the sixth Christina on the Rocks, which I form at St Marylebone School intent thought sounded like a cocktail, and on doing a classical singing degree at then we drove through a little village the Royal Academy of Music, but was called Laroque des Alberes. And I told she wasn’t yet ready for the physical These 16,000 singers know how to said: ‘Oh my goodness! How about demands required in classical singing. rock. “A few years ago we managed Christina Laroque?’ It has the word ‘You have all the potential but you’re to fi ll Wembley Arena with choir rock in it, but because of the spelling just a little too young,’ they said. ‘Come members,” says Christina. “You have it’s also quite jazzy, which is perfect, back in three years. We’ll take you on. the whole arena singing and moving because I love all styles of music. So go off and do something else.’” and it’s just such a huge buzz. Then My real name is Dmytryk, which is Christina did exactly that, we got invited to Wembley Stadium not as musical sounding.” graduating with a BMus in Popular in September 2012, to support the Ah yes, for though Christina is Music Performance from Vocal Tech Saracens match. We sang three songs now Marylebone to the core, she hails in 2008. “Switching from classical to at half time. There were 3,000 of us from the Ukraine. When Christina pop singing has led to some fantastic and it was an amazing sound.” arrived in London with her mum and opportunities in the pop world. One Rock Choir is preparing to fi ll brother at the age of 12, the extent of the best decisions made for me.” the O2 Arena later this summer. of her English amounted to saying Christina joined Rock Choir “I will be taking centre stage in the thank you, hello and goodbye. “It was in February 2009. Started in 2005 opening of the show, singing live and a real culture shock, coming from a by musician and singer Caroline performing specially choreographed Redman Lusher, Rock Choir now dance routines,” says Christine. LINKS boasts upwards of 16,000 members But not even Wembley and the in 240 towns nationwide. Christina O2 Arena can compete with the Christina Laroque looks after Marylebone, Ealing, Marylebone Christmas Lights in christinalaroque.com Hampstead and Woodford and terms of sheer spectacle. So does Rock Choir Wanstead—just under 500 members. the Marylebone Rock Choir hope rockchoir.com “I’m very happy with Rock Choir. For to perform for a fi fth time this a musician to fi nd a paid job and a job November? “Yes,” replies Christina. that you love is really diffi cult.” “We have the date in our diaries.”

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BY SASHA GARWOOD

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate, £20

Americanah is glorious—part This is far more than polemic, love story, part social comedy, part though. It’s a romance, and a pitch-perfect discussion of racism sensitive exploration of identity in contemporary culture, and part and belonging, written with wisdom meditation on home, identity and and grace. Adichie has empathy returning. It is the story of two young and perspicacity as well as wit: Nigerians: Ifemelu, high-fl ying student Ifemelu is complex and clever and turned notorious race blogger, and multi-dimensional and Obinze and Obinze, her fi rst love, lost after the the supporting cast are drawn traumatic demands of survival in the with an acute, compassionate eye. US shatter their long-distance bond. The culture clash, too, is there in I genuinely felt educated by all it glorious complexity. Ifemelu’s this novel: Adichie does much to friend points out, “I didn’t know undermine Western assumptions I was supposed to HAVE issues until about ‘third world’ countries, and I came to America”, while her aunt pays keen attention to the politics laments of her son’s inner confl ict, of privilege—evident both in some “That is the kind of thing they teach wince-inducingly believable scenes them here. Everybody is confl icted, (the white woman who calls all black identity this, identity that.” women beautiful, the roommate who As Ifemelu writes in her blog, expects Ifemelu to “kill her dog with geography profoundly changes The truth that “the voodoo”, or the college receptionist identity: “in America, you’re black, manifestation of racism has who responds to Ifemelu’s assertion baby”, not Jamaican, Ghanian, that “I speak English…” with “I bet Nigerian or anything else. changed but the language you do, I just don’t know how well”) All that, and she can write. Her style hasn’t” is demonstrated and through Ifemelu’s blog, which is engaging and almost conversational, repeatedly through discusses everything from solidarity but with a directness and intellectual relationships, professional with Michelle Obama to the hazards acumen that brings her characters of “travelling whilst black”. The truth and their thought processes vividly to encounters, education, that “the manifestation of racism has life. Her ear for dialogue and comic and continual meaningless changed but the language hasn’t” is timing are pin-sharp, and she manages gestures toward inclusivity demonstrated repeatedly through the neat trick of combining criticism, relationships, professional encounters, humour and insight. education, and continual meaningless Adichie has written about being gestures toward inclusivity: “The point criticised for the “implausibility” of of diversity talks was not to inspire various world-colliding scenes in the ALL REVIEWED TITLES real change, but to make people feel book, and come back tartly with the AVAILABLE FROM DAUNT good about themselves.” For a reader assertion that, basically, life is stranger suffi ciently mired in white privilege than fi ction. Certainly, the fl uency of Daunt Books to never have considered the politics Americanah is such that even the odd 83 Marylebone High Street of hair, for example, or the fi ner stretch of credulity—a blog fi nancially 020 7224 2295 implications of gradations in skin lucrative enough to fund an assistant dauntbooks.co.uk colour (“And now, he’s with a sister, and as well as a real estate purchase?—fails a chocolate sister at that!”) it borders to detract from its intelligence, insight on revelatory. and sheer human warmth.

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Blood & Beauty affectionate sweetness and regrettable by Sarah Dunant subjectivity to family whim, is easily the Virago, £16.99 most sympathetic, Alexander’s energy and generosity render him likable despite his A new Sarah Dunant novel is always a cruelties and insensitivities, and Cesare joy, but a Sarah Dunant novel about the is as perilously compelling as he must Borgias is on a whole other level. Blood have been in life. The closeness between the & Beauty follows the family of Rodrigo siblings is both touching and bordering on Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, as he enters the sinister. Lucrezia’s hard-won maturity the Vatican and embarks on a campaign and Giulia’s skilful use of sexuality and of powerbroking and nepotism that will feminine wiles to navigate a patriarchal see his children rise to positions of power society profoundly uninterested in their all over Renaissance Europe. As the novel needs or desires are intricately and opens, Alexander’s mistress Giulia Farnese, realistically woven into the circumstances possessed of an improbable mass of golden of their lives and the social realities of hair and a husband (in)conveniently Renaissance European aristocracy. secreted in the country, is living with Dunant’s research is meticulous. Battles, his daughter Lucrezia, a pretty, good- household routine, early modern bathing natured and generous girl on the brink of practices or the rituals of papal elections womanhood, and her two brothers, cocky are all described in precise and (sometimes Juan and troublesome Jofre. His eldest son, uncomfortably) sensual detail, and the the beautiful and dangerous Cesare Borgia, whole Borgia family spring fully formed is the new Pope’s sounding board and secret off the page. There’s humour too; Cesare weapon. Currently Cardinal of Valencia, in particular maintains an ironic and his enforced vocation by no means limits his often bitter detachment amid his theatrical indulgence in the pleasures of the fl esh. fl ourishes that’s both disquieting and blackly Dunant’s skill is to bring both funny. As both period piece and engaging this variant and melodramatic cast human melodrama, Blood & Beauty of characters to vivid and infi nitely is superlative: immersive, atmospheric, believable life. While Lucrezia, with her exciting and infi nitely believable.

City of Blood an elderly woman being stabbed. by MD Villiers Alone of the spectators, he rushes to help, Harvill Secker, £12.99 and fi nds himself drawn into a shadowy underworld of murder and coercion. My family come from Johannesburg, MD Villiers writes with a deceptive South Africa, and I have the kind of strange simplicity, fl uid and direct, his evocation of relationship with the city that anyone might Siphiwe’s thoughts no less compelling than with a place that both represents safety the gangsters’ assumptions of violence and happiness (I loved my South African and greed. Conversations between family), and one of the most dangerous Siphiwe and his adopted little brother environments in the world. Anyway, when Msizi are moving precisely because of City of Blood arrived on my desk, complete their candour; their child-adult dynamic with cover featuring what looked like the is perfect. Siphiwe spends quite a lot of view from my grandmother’s retirement the book being coerced in various ways, fl at, I fell on it with both joy and trepidation. and his openness in response serves only Apart from anything else, this wasn’t my to heighten the tension. When he turns Jo’burg, full of long low white villas and the tables with Msizi’s help, it’s hard not bougainvillea, high walls and electric to cheer. Add that to the atmosphere of fences. It was another world entirely—one Joburg, all heat and car parks and fruit of gangsters and violence and poverty and stalls and the smell of sunlight on tarmac, pain. Siphiwe, an orphan still grieving for and City of Blood is as evocative as it the violent death of his brother, witnesses is engaging.

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“I started by dealing in antique part of the urban townscape. A NOBLE prints but my main interest was always The fi nal price for that worked out ART in sport,” says Nick. “With cricket being at just under £1,000,000. There was my main love I started specialising in another Lowry with cricket being that area.” Dealing in original sporting played which went for even more, engravings is more challenging than but I didn’t get my hands on that!” you might think. The popularity of His favourite item was a set of fi ve cricket images meant that they were lithographs of cricketing strokes by a always being reprinted, and it takes great Victorian artist called TS Watts, a long time to learn to differentiate who was very closely connected Nick Potter, brother of Marylebone between a fi rst impression of an 1820 with the Pre-Raphaelites. “These map dealer Jonathan Potter, has print and one made in 1880 or 1950 lithographs are extremely rare, two great loves: antiques and using the same plate. “You are looking and to have had a complete set was cricket. Havng been a member of at things like the nature of the paper, wonderful,” says Nick. “They are the MCC since that far off era when tracing the provenance,” says Nick. actually one of the few things that membership didn’t mean a decades’ Nick picks up many of his pieces I regret selling, because they were long wait, Nick spent 20 years on from auctions, and as he has a trusted just so beautifully drawn.” the Arts and Libraries committee reputation in the business, people will With the Ashes still seen by many at Lord’s which is charged with approach him if they have something as the pinnacle of Test cricket, there caring for the MCC’s extraordinary to sell. “I have people throughout the is a little extra cache to anything collections of photographs, pictures, country who know the kind of thing with an Ashes association. And lithographs and ephemera—a role that I am looking for and let me know with Lord’s being known as the that sat perfectly with his day job as a if they see something they know I home of cricket, memorabilia with a dealer in antique sports memorabilia. might like,” he says. connection to the ground can extend This summer, to coincide with the The most valuable item Nick beyond those with a deep interest in Ashes Lord’s Test match, Nick along has sold directly was a portrait of the game. Both elements will feature with book collector Mike Down is WG Grace which went for somewhere heavily in the exhibition, The Noble taking over Jonathan’s George Street in the region of £150,000. “But I did Game of Cricket, just a hefty slog gallery for an exhibition of cricket- help acquire for a client a painting by away from where the summer’s main themed rarities. Lowry with cricket being played as action will be taking place.

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On most occasions at Wigmore Hall, First up is Miloš Karadaglic, one THE LATE, if you leave at 9:30pm it’s a bit of a of the ﬁ nest young ambassadors late one. Come Friday nights in the for classical guitar and an exclusive LATE SHOW summer, however, and you’ll ﬁ nd Deutsche Grammophon recording 10pm is the hour when people, far artist. He opens the series on 31st from leaving, start arriving—with May at 10pm, followed downstairs by eyes open and ears itching to hear a cool stroll through the swing era the latest the Wigmore Lates @36 courtesy of clarinettist Julian Bliss and programme has in store. his band. On 7th June, countertenor Established in 2011, these nights Yaniv d’Or and Ensemble NAYA have helped to capture an audience for celebrate the strong connections whom the hall, or chamber music in between early western music and general, was once a no-go. Throughout works from other musical traditions. the summer hour-long concerts at The winners of the 2011 MOBO 10pm are followed by free musical Award for Best Jazz Act, Kairos 4tet, soirees in the Wigmore bar from will then accompany the audience to 11:15pm until the small hours. Director the bar area for a set once described John Gilhooly says: “There is a real by the Evening Standard as “cerebral, buzz and sense of excitement in the air peaceful and yet still swing”. as we start the weekend in style.” Much more can be found in the American art songs, an intimate Guide, and on the Marylebone evening of storytelling, a dynamic Journal website nearer the time. reed quintet and some buskers are just a few of the highlights Wigmore Lates @36 Registered Charity No. 1068298 demanding to be heard. wigmore-hall.org.uk

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The Royal Academy of Music MUSIC Marylebone Road 020 7873 7300 Wigmore Hall ram.ac.uk/events 36 Wigmore Street 020 7935 2141 The Royal Academy of Music has wigmore-hall.org.uk a large and varied programme of public concerts, including many that are free The world famous concert venue of charge. Here are some highlights has a packed schedule of the very from the coming months.Visit the fi nest chamber music. Here are some Royal Academy website for more highlights from the coming months. detailed listings. Visit the Wigmore Hall website for more detailed listings. 13 June Joe Locke (vibraphone); Academy 14 June Percussion Ensemble; Academy Big Patricia Routledge (reciter); Piers Band: Joe Locke Lane (piano): Admission, One The Academy’s percussion and jazz Shilling departments, under the direction Award-winning actress Patricia of Neil Percy and Nick Smart, Routledge and pianist Piers welcome international visiting Lane tell the extraordinary story professor of vibraphone Joe Locke of Myra Hess and her famous for a celebration of Joe’s substantial wartime National Gallery contribution to jazz music. concerts. In Dame Myra’s own 7:30pm words with piano music by Bach, Tickets £7 Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Chopin. 20 June 10pm Lucas Jordan (fl ute); Fabricio Mattos Tickets £12 (guitar); Serge Vuille (percussion): 01 Pixinguinha, Ernesto Nazareth and 21 June Chiquinha Gonzaga 02 Classic Buskers The Brazilian choro genre is The Classic Buskers’ secret traditionally played in a bar: weapon is to convey their passion musicians sit around a table while for classical music in two of the the audience gathers around best ways possible—virtuosity dancing, singing and drinking— and laughter. Michael Copley and while Academy students plays more than 40 woodwind may not be able to recreate the instruments at incredible Brazilian bar (or indeed weather) speeds, ranging from recorders, the lively, upbeat atmosphere will fl utes, panpipes, crumhorns be there in force. and ocarinas to a pico pipe 8pm and a rubber trout. Ian Moore Free accompanies on a small but perfectly-formed accordion, either pink or yellow. It doesn’t EVENTS matter how much you know about classical music—you just need a Asia House sense of humour, and ears. 63 New Cavendish Street 11:15pm 020 7307 5454 Free, no ticket required asiahouse.org

5 July 19 June Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor); Xuefei Yang Performance Thomas Dunford (lute); Jonathan Born following the Cultural Manson (viol): Robert Johnson, John Revolution, an era where Dowland, John Danyel, Thomas western music and instruments Campion, Nico Muhly were banned, Yang was the ﬁ rst Iestyn Davies closes his Wigmore guitarist in China to enter a music Hall residency with a voyage school, and the ﬁ rst to launch an around the thrilling world of late international professional career. Tudor and Stuart lute songs and a Here she plays pieces by both new work by Nico Muhly. Western and Eastern composers. 7pm 6:45pm Tickets from £18 Tickets £15

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Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Inner Circle, Regent’s Park 0844 826 4242 openairtheatre.com

20 June – 20 July Pride and Prejudice Simon Reade’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s ultimate rom-com, now in its 200th year. Tickets from £25

29 June – 20 July The Winter’s Tale Shakespeare’s classic story of a lost princess raised by a shepherd and of her secret romance with a prince, re-imagined for everyone aged six and over. Tickets £15

Royal Society of Medicine 1 Wimpole Street 020 7290 2900 rsm.ac.uk

8 June Medical Innovations Summit RSM’s seventh medical 27 June Cape Farewell, an artist-run innovations summit will offer 03 01 Joe Locke, Royal Contemporary Arab Fiction organisation that promotes a Academy of Music a range of presentations by 02 Classic Buskers, Authors Jana Elhassan and cultural response to climate speakers from the UK and Wigmore Hall Mohammed Hassan Alwan change. His photographic series overseas, including Professor 03 Error, Ishinomaki, discuss their work and the advances that aim, incorporating Simon Kay, who led the surgical 2012 by Chris contemporary literary scene. an illuminated version of the team that undertook the UK’s Wainwright, Daiwa 6:45pm semaphore symbol for ‘Error’ fi rst ever hand transplant, Anglo-Japanese Tickets £10 within places where there have Professor Paul Anderson of Foundation been natural disasters or sites of Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Daiwa Anglo-Japanese environmental fragility caused by Design Studio, who will be Foundation human exploitation: in thiscase, speaking about his computerised 13-14 Cornwall Terrace the Tohoku region in Japan before model of the human anatomy, 020 7486 4348 and after the 2011 tsunami. and Professor Peter Friend and dajf.org.uk Professor Constantin Coussios, Mon-Fri 9:30am-5pm who will be talking about their 25 June work in developing the technology Cross Cultural Partnerships and Hellenic Centre that allowed British surgeons to Environmental Engagement 16–18 Paddington Street transplant ‘live’ livers. Engaging with other cultures 020 7487 5060 9am is centered on recognising helleniccentre.org Free, but booking essential differences, and the mutual benefi ts of dialogue and 19 June 6 July innovation that come from better A Princess, Two Books and an Icon: Medicine & Me: Cleft lip & palate understanding those differences. Another Byzantine Puzzle? Organised in association with the Focusing on the role of artists, this A lecture by Professor Elizabeth Cleft Lip and Palate Association, talk will explore existing models Jeffreys on illustrated manuscripts this meeting invites patients to talk of cultural cooperation between from 12th century Byzantium. about their experiences of living the UK and Japan, and the need 7pm with cleft lip and palate. There will to fi nd new ones to deal with be advice from plastic surgeons, environmental issues. 29 June a speech and language therapist, 6pm Julietta Demetriades (soprano) and psychologist, orthodontist and Free, but booking essential Alla Sirenko (composer, pianist) audiologist on the diagnosis and A celebration of Greek and management of the condition. Until 10 July Ukrainian culture through songs 12.30pm A Catalogue of Errors and poetry. Free, but booking essential Professor Chris Wainwright 7:30pm is the chair of the trustees of Free, but confi rm attendance

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ART A&D Gallery 51 Chiltern Street 020 7486 0534 aanddgallery.com

July John Piper John Piper is one of the best known artists working in Cornwall today. His paintings of the carns, cliffs, farm buildings and moors of West Penwith have been exhibited throughout the UK and abroad. Featuring a large body of recent work, this is John’s ﬁ rst solo show for several years.

Mieko Meguro Mieko Meguro returns to the A&D Gallery with new sculptures, entitled Icy Hearts, and portraits of her husband, the artist, Dan. 01

Mon-Fri 10:30am-7pm 02 Sat 10:30am-6pm

Atlas Gallery 49 Dorset Street 020 7224 4192 atlasgallery.com

6 June – 6 July The War Photographs of Robert Capa A selection of images from the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. Together with shots from Spain, Cambodia and D-Day, the exhibition will include the Leica camera that launched Capa’s career and saw some of the most momentous reportage photographs.

Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Sat 11am-5pm

Graham Hunter Gallery 81 Baker Street 020 7935 7794 grahamhuntergallery.co.uk

Until 30 June Spirited Three series from ﬁ ne artist Anna Loveday Minshall, exploring real and imagined journeys, in colour and form, where ﬁ gurative elements rise to produce symbol and story.

Mon-Fri 9:30am-6pm Sat 10am-5pm Sun 11am-4pm

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Heartbreak Gallery and conceptual scenarios. 17 Bulstrode Street The show includes new works that 020 3219 5710 give his photography a cinematic heart-break.co.uk and sculptural presence.

6 – 31 July Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Massimo Poello and Ros Rixon Sat-Sun 11am-5pm Massimo Poello and Ros Rixon explore the written word—the RIBA former, a master calligraphist, uses 66 Portland Place, W1 text to create stunning paintings, 020 7580 5533 the latter uses antique texts and architecture.com hand-blown glass spheres. Until 14 September Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Charles Correa Sun 11am-4pm The fi rst major UK exhibition showcasing the work of this Imitate Modern renowned Indian architect. Rooted 27a Devonshire Street both in modernism and the rich 020 7486 9927 traditions of people, place and imitatemodern.com climate, Correa has designed some of the most outstanding buildings 3 June – 31 July in India and has deservedly The Inner Outsider received many an award for them. Rich Simmons is used to seeing things differently. An artist Mon-Sat 10am-5pm whose career was born not of (Tues 10am-9pm) formal training but of autism and self-discovery, he has always Thompson’s Gallery felt himself outside the art world. 15 New Cavendish Street His exhibition refl ects that: 020 7935 3595 from its ripped billboards, to its thompsonsgallery.co.uk juxtaposition of sketches and mass-produced images, it asks the 19 June – 5 July viewer to see beauty in all things. Edward Haslam, Charles Rowbotham and Emma Green Mon-Sat 10am-6pm An exciting exhibition featuring three emerging artists tackling jaggedart different traditions. Each artist is 03 28a Devonshire Street new to Thompson’s Gallery. 020 7486 7374 jaggedart.com Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10am-6pm 04 Wed 10am-7pm Until 15 June Sat 10:30am-5:30pm 01 Robert Capa, Atlas Re-found Sun 11am-5pm Gallery Collage, a variety of printmaking 02 Ros Rixon, techniques, intricate paper cuts Wallace Collection Heartbreak and ceramics allow Sara J Beazley, Manchester Square 03 Rich Simmons, Charlotte Hodes and María 020 7563 9500 Imitate Modern Noël to respond to art, history wallacecollection.org 04 Charlotte Hodes, jaggedart and landscapes and textiles in strikingly different ways. 20 June – 15 September Discovery of Paris Wed-Fri 11am-6pm Turner, Girtin, Bonington and Sat 11am-2pm many more offer views of Paris from a time before ours. They Lisson Gallery chart the remarkable contribution 29 & 52-54 Bell Street of the British to the iconography 020 7724 2739 of the city as it became a major lissongallery.com tourist destination, and while varying hugely in style, they are Until 29 June widely considered to be some of Rodney Graham the most beautiful depictions of Canadian artist Rodney Graham Paris ever put to paper. is renowned for his photographic recreations of historical, fi ctional Daily 10am-5pm

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Shannon Denny meets Charlotte Simpson, the young Marylebone-based designer whose elegant, ﬂ owing designs have marked her out in the fashion world as a serious talent to watch out for LET IT FLOW

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When you were fi ve years old, what Her current collection hangs on a did you want to be? An astronaut, rail within view, catching the sunlight a policeman, a popstar? I wanted and drawing our attention. There are to work as a nurse by day and as a fl uid-to-the-fl oor silk dresses in a pastel tightrope walker by night. As you can colour palette of ivory, pistachio, pale probably extrapolate, those particular yellow and powdered blue. Hemlines dreams did not come true for me. But are dipped in sequins, while short, Charlotte Simpson was altogether simple shift dresses in an ivory wool more realistic—not to mention and silk mix appear to soak up colour focused. At fi ve she was wandering the through a scattering of citrus sequins shops behind her mother entranced around waistlines and hems. My mum always said, by the clothes, and by 13 she’d There’s a relaxed feel to the ‘There are good, basic rules designed her fi rst collection. tailored separates, which include “My mum taught me to sew,” ivory silk suit jackets and silk trousers for dressing: always keep it she reveals as we sit down in her designed to be worn high on the simple, the more simple the Marylebone home that doubles as a waist. Tailored city short suits in better.’ That rings in my studio. “When I was at school we had pastel and soft citrus shades feature a head when I’m designing a fashion show once a year. When I contrast bronze silk slip. Meanwhile, was 13 I came home and said, ‘Mum I the collection’s scene-stealers include want to make all these things!’ At the a citrus jumpsuit with beaded sleeves time I was just learning, so she was and a fully embroidered fl oor-length like, ‘Oh my goodness, she’s got such gown drenched in all-over sequins. grand ideas, how are we ever going The enduring effect is elegant, to do this?’” But Charlotte managed understated chic—an unusual blend it, and the result was the fl edgling of the contemporary with classic. fashion designer’s debut on the “It’s supposed to be quite an Repton School catwalk. effortless way of dressing. How I dress After fi nishing a BA in fashion and myself is with things you can really winning the Zandra Rhodes Catwalk just throw on but look like you’ve put Textiles award at Graduate Fashion a lot more effort in than you really Week, she went on to complete an MA have,” she laughs. “That’s what I apply at London College of Fashion. Her to my designs as well.” graduate collection won her a spot on It’s fi rst thing in the morning, but the shortlist for the Womenswear of Charlotte looks immaculate in smart the Year Award at the college’s famed trousers, killer heels and a silk blouse. V&A show, after which she was named “I tend to wear a mixture of high among Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Ones street with designer, which normally To Watch for spring/summer 2013 at includes a piece from Joseph—their London Fashion Week. basics are great. Sandro is another It clearly pays to get started on your label which features heavily in my professional path early, but in this wardrobe. I have quite a few of their line of work you also need a unique tailored jackets.” aesthetic and a fairly tireless work This is what she calls her “standard ethic. Charlotte it seems has a bounty uniform”, and it hints at her in both areas. As for the aesthetic, disciplined approach to work. For this is how the designer herself sums most of us, having a studio and offi ce it up: “It’s a minimalist look but with in our home would be license to wear quite heavy embroidery in places—an a dressing gown around the clock— unusual combination. It’s sleek and but that’s not Charlotte’s style at all. simple, but with the added draw.” “I’m quite strict with my starting

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BUY NOW time,” she says. “I never just think, scientifi c imagery—quite random!” PAY IN 12 ** ‘Oh, I’m just going to stay in bed a bit she reveals. “All this is based on sense MONTHS longer.’ On an evening it depends on mapping of your tongue and the how much I’ve got to do. If I’ve got a tastebuds.” She’s currently sketching lot, then I might be in there till the her next collection, and the basis early hours of the morning. If not, for that is equally mysterious and then I try to keep a balance so that abstract—all she’ll say is that it has I don’t totally lose my mind. But it something to do with photography. doesn’t always go that way!” She keeps a lengthening list on The world of fashion is often her iPhone of ideas and themes for considered frivolous, but Charlotte’s future collections. love of hard work turns this notion on Which part of the long process its head. Before starting her company of creating a collection does she last year, Charlotte gained experience like best? “The design bit really, the with heavyweight designers in both sketching—which sadly is kind of the New York and London, and I imagine shortest,” she says. “You don’t really they must have been very happy to get a huge amount of time to do it. have her. Her postings included DKNY You have a few weeks where you sketch (admired for minimalist silhouettes), everything through, then you have to Julien Macdonald (known for his start on the toileing process and the attention to beading and embroidery) patterns. But yeah—those few weeks and Amanda Wakeley (a favourite of are great! The ideas part is the best.” the Duchess of Cambridge for both day When it comes to switching and eveningwear). off from the demands of the job, While these stints honed her skills Charlotte’s a keen baker. While in the business of clothes, it was a I munch on a muffi n she made fi gure closer to home whom Charlotte earlier in the morning, she tells me cites as her real inspiration—her she buys her supplies at Waitrose, mum. “She’s always said, ‘There are specialises in chocolate cake, and good, basic rules for dressing: always can even make macaroons. “I get keep it simple, the more simple the quite carried away,” she laughs. “I like better.’ It always rings in my head really fussy things—anything that when I’m designing.” takes a lot of precision.” Outside of SUMMER SALE Charlotte’s MA tutor also had a the kitchen, she’ll head to Regent’s huge infl uence on her approach. “Our Park to unwind. Other local haunts * tutor was really strong on the process of include Bricole for Italian cuisine, SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS ON ALL OUR BESPOKE HANDCRAFTED FURNITURE design,” she explains. “We spent a lot of the Conran Shop and Matches. time researching and developing large As for the fashion designers she STUDIES LOUNGES BEDROOMS LIBRARIES CINEMA DINING projects rather than just designing admires most, she says, “I love the C

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There is nothing new about the fl at ballerina as a fashion accessory—it’s a style that has been with us since Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn fi rst embraced its simple charms. But under the auspices of Jane Winkworth, the founder of French Sole, this most humble of styles has become a genuine phenomenon. The secret of her success, comfort factor aside, is that Jane is constantly innovating, updating, expanding and evolving, lending a new twist to a well-trodden classic, introducing fresh colour palettes and adding new styles to the collection. Jane bought her very fi rst pairs of brightly coloured ballet fl ats as a teenager on holiday in St Tropez. “I fi rst fell in love with them when I was 17 in the south of France, where I bought three pairs—in black, emerald green and white—and I was hooked,” she recalls. During the sixties and seventies, Jane sought out this often elusive style from the classical dance shoemakers of the day such as Anello & Davide, Freed and Gamba. Michael Gamba would customise some shoes for Jane, and Anello then followed, creating a capsule range for the teenager with little teddy-bear eye buttons fastening the ankle straps. After leaving school, Jane went to art college, and a series of jobs followed, including a stint selling feather boas at the legendary Biba on Kensington Church Street. The 1980s saw Jane working at the V&A as a fi ne porcelain and china restorer, How did the balletic inspiration come about? but then another holiday, this time FLAT I have always loved ballet—everything to Marbella in 1988, would bring her about it. It makes me cry. As a little girl, closer to her vision. Here, she bought EARTH I did ballet at The Kate Walker School up the entire stock of a shoe boutique in Temple Market, Weybridge, Surrey. that was closing down, resulting in Jackie Modlinger catches up Those were the gentle days of the her arriving home with a suitcase with French Sole founder angora bolero and hairband. I loved full of shoes, none of which were my childhood and my schooldays at St her size. From a table-top business Jane Winkworth Christopher in Hertfordshire, where in a Chelsea basement in 1989, Jane all I did was art, pottery, painting and would go on to build a global empire. sculpture—it was the happiest time “I have made the ballet pump a of my life. I have always worn ballet true fashion classic,” she says, “and I shoes, fi rst when I was dancing, then as have achieved this single-mindedly regular footwear. I loved ballet pumps without too much hard work.” and other eclectic fl at footwear, like

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work with me and my eight-year- Are fl ats eclipsing heels in the style stakes? old granddaughter is longing to Our sales have steadily increased and start working in the stores! Loyalty, we’ve seen a huge shift away from heels. honesty and trust are the key words Tamara Mellon got out just in time! which spring to mind—I know that I can completely trust my family and You could have hung up your ballet pumps that their support never wavers. a while ago, yet you continue expanding the brand. Are you just irrepressible? What inspires your designs? I would love to retire and spend time Most of my creativity comes from with my grandchildren or at my spending so much time at my LA wonderful new home in California, home, as all my team there are highly but there is always a new challenge creative. When I am at my home or new direction I want to go in, and in Portugal, it is a time to spend on as the creative concept is still my colour and new ideas, as I go there for responsibility, I just have to see new peace and tranquillity, not the mad, projects through. hectic life I lead in California. What are you most grateful for? Businesswoman, designer, wife, mother, My children, my grandchildren, my grandmother—how do you manage to husband, my family, friends and my juggle all these roles? temperament—I am always happy, I I juggle everything with ease, because always see the best in every situation I love what I do. I love dipping in and and my glass is permanently half full! out of my different lives—I have a lot God made me a happy person and of staff and am lucky enough to have nothing dims my pleasure when I a huge amount of help both at work wake up every morning. I am longing and in my homes. I also get bored to retire, but until I fi nd the right extremely quickly and so rushing people to take over from me, I will around from one place to another continue for as long as I am able to. suits me fi ne. I never get bored, although I do get quite tired. What does Marylebone mean to you? I have always loved Marylebone Village As the undisputed queen of ballet fl ats, for the remarkable diversity of cultures how many do you have in your wardrobe? that seem to co-exist so happily. I have over 400 pairs of ballet fl ats Marylebone is a great melting pot of and about 20 pairs of heels, all of artists, writers and media people and which are French Sole heels made has some of the best restaurants in especially for me. I wear our Cocktail London. It has become a destination style, mainly in snake and black. shopping area now, as a result of the long term plan put in place by gold monogrammed velvet smoking How would you defi ne your style? the Howard de Walden Estate. As slippers. And I have always loved I am classic with a twist. I used to love landlords they are truly visionary— fashion—I remember wanting to work Chanel and still have a wardrobe they inspire and encourage new for Biba as a Saturday girl at her fi rst of jackets, but about a year ago I business ventures that start up in the shop in Abingdon Road. I didn’t get discovered Zara and there has been area, which has made it possible for the job because I was still at boarding no looking back. I buy everything some great retailing names to exist side school, but she did give me a dress with I can from Zara and Haute Hippie by side with small entrepreneurs. a zip from neck to hem, with little puff and mix them up. Zara is great value, shoulders and a skirt so short that I had great style and super-cheap. If I hate a LINKS to wear two pairs of knickers! jacket after a couple of outings, I give it away and what have I lost? Seventy French Sole French Sole is very much a family affair— pounds, whereas if you’re bored 61 Marylebone Lane is that part of its success? with a Chanel jacket and are waving 020 7486 0021 I love working with my family. My goodbye to £5,000. It is ridiculous— frenchsole.com two sons and my husband John all those days are over for me.

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Oska, the German brand which ﬁ rst made an appearance in Marylebone in a concession in Shoon, is back—and this time there’s a whole shopful to choose from

The appeal of German womenswear silhouettes. Indeed one of its facilities, brand Oska, which has been open a dye factory, is located just up the on New Cavendish Street for several road from its Munich headquarters, months now, is pretty apparent. creating the brand’s unique colour For one thing, it is consistent: in palettes. This is just one of the things quality, in sourcing, and in its design that sets Oska apart from other labels. philosophy, which is based on The second is the shape of the clothes, continuity and remains “true to its designed by Stefanie Schmitz, which line” as well as inspired by trends. are ﬂ exible, forgiving and often “Clear simple shapes and choice Asian-inspired. Intricate details such materials stand for an unostentatious as buttons and collars set accents; but unique look,” stipulates the Oska colours bring them to life. brand statement. More importantly, in these days of collapsing factories LINKS and dodgy supply chains, all Oska suppliers are carefully overseen by the Oska company’s staff and ﬁ t the European 27 New Cavendish Street Life Cycle Assessment requirements. 020 7224 0676 For Oska and its customers, it means oska-london.co.uk a conscience as clean as their sharp

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Who do you love most at the moment? TREASURE I love the jewellery collections by Lulu Frost: big, bold, colourful statement HUNT pieces. At the other end of the spectrum, I love the cute vintage style of the jewellery in CatbirdNYC.

Do you make your own jewellery? I still make a few bits and pieces in my spare time—mainly presents for Rebecca Jones is the jewellery buyer for friends and family, though over the Oliver Bonas, the eclectic new boutique past few years I have made a few hair selling clothing, accessories, homeware— pieces for friends for their weddings. and the odd item that resists categorising I am currently working on a ﬂ oral head piece for a friend for her Is being a professional jewellery buyer as wedding later this year. much fun as it sounds? It is actually—I love my job! The Where do you shop, other than Oliver role is fairly varied, from travelling Bonas? to the Far East to source beautiful I love anything vintage so I love designs, to working with suppliers exploring Alﬁ e’s Antique Market. on development, working with new I also love Kabiri! It is one of my trends for collections, analysing sales, favourite jewellery shops and have negotiating prices and planning been pawing over their jewellery quantities. No two days are the same! collections for many years.

How did you get into it? Do you wear a lot of jewellery yourself? I did a degree in jewellery design and What are you wearing now? silversmithing and came down to You should see my jewellery boxes! the bright lights of London. I worked Jewellery is my weakness (this helps in the industry for various fashion with my job) and I love buying new jewellery designers, and joined the jewels, from vintage treasures to the buying team here six years ago when latest statement piece. I am loving our Oliver Bonas was starting to expand. Atlantic Resin and Wood necklaces— I’m wearing them now. I have one What do you look for when you’re sourcing in violet and one in green, and wear jewellery for Oliver Bonas? them both together—a girl can never I’m an Oliver Bonas customer, so that wear too many necklaces! helps, and of course in six years of working here I have been able to see Any countries or people which particularly what people love. When looking for inspired you to go into fashion? styles and developing collections, My mum! Mum has always been so it is important that I select amazing stylish, and has inspired me from gifts for customers to buy as well a young age. I always knew that as things they’ll want to treat I wanted to work in the creative themselves with. industry. My focus and passion turned to jewellery and metal work at How do you ﬁ nd new suppliers? school. I am very lucky in my job that I I source my suppliers from all over get to travel and see the world, which the world. There are big fairs in is a great way to get inspiration! Hong Kong three times a year, where suppliers from all over the world are Oliver Bonas gathered under one roof. The whole 63-65 Marylebone Lane process involves a lot of walking so 020 7487 3779 high heels are a no-no! oliverbonas.com

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THE GUIDE TO WHAT’S HOT ON What’s in? THE HIGH STREET. THIS MONTH, 10 CROSBY AT KJ’S LAUNDRY

Described by the designer as “the collection to take you through every aspect of modern life” and by certain members of the press as “like pyjamas”, the only way to really know 10 Crosby by Derek Lam is to wear it yourself. So it is just as well that it is one of the labels which KJ’s Laundry will only make available in store, rather than online. After all, anyone venturing out in shorts such as those shown here (left), should really try them ﬁ rst—not everyone will rock them quite like this lady. But if leather shorts are what you’re after, there’s no better pair than these. In fact everything from 10 Crosby is quality, from the Lace Up dress (bottom right, £450) to the Stripe Shirt (top left, £340), which ﬁ ts effortlessly and whispers sexiness and chic. Pair with the Print trousers (£360) or with jeans. As Lam points out, this is his main brand’s “little sister”: free spirited, sometimes slouchy, but always “super stylish”. “Crosby Street is so unique—it’s one of my favourite streets in New York,” he says. With his studio based at number 10, and his cigarette breaks spent “blowing smoke out of the window”, it seemed only natural that the label take its inspiration from the place. The result is a distinct departure from his eponymous label, in which he could never have such vivid colours as those on the Embroidery Blouse (left, £340) or such graphic shapes as adorn the Snake Print trousered legs (top right, £340). Designed to “skim the body in a subtle, sensual way” they demand to be tried on immedaitely. Head to KJ’s before we buy them all.

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Since opening in December Le Vieux Comptoir has brought an authentic taste of France to the middle of Marylebone. Glyn Brown meets owner Laurent Faure and hears how a mid-life crisis spawned this hidden haven of culinary and vinous delights

I’m late for the interview at Le Vieux At the time, there was mention of a “Why? Because when you wake Comptoir, which is a very poor show. downstairs café or breakfast area, but up in the morning and you are not At 10am on a warm spring morning, it wasn’t quite completed. I expected that happy, you have to ask the big I huff toward the door of this tiny a cramped, dark room, since it was question—am I ready to do this, the hideaway, squirreled at the very end a basement. Now, however, Laurent same thing, for the next 25 years? And of Moxon Street just where it meets leads the way down an airy staircase you think, if I don’t make the change Paddington Street Gardens. Someone and… crikey. A huge other world now, it’ll be too late.” is outside, looking at their watch reveals itself: a wine cellar, a cheese and He sips his water. “I mean, we had and texting—possibly texting me. grocery area and, leading off these, a good life—good money, a nice It’s Laurent Faure, the owner, but he a coffee room with a glass ceiling— townhouse in Montparnasse. Every dismisses my excuses with a wave of the cream wooden chairs, chaise longue, morning, I crossed the Seine on hand. “Relax, relax,” he says, twinkling think rustic Versailles—plus two rangy my moped, looking at probably the with Gallic charm. And adds: “Come dining rooms and a low-lit mahogany most exciting town in the world— and see a brand-new secret.” bar. What is this, the Tardis? Laurent architecture, monuments... And I It was back in February that I is clearly delighted. “It’s been open thought, pfft, I’m just not happy. noticed a little wine merchant had just four days, and already we have We had to do something. So we left.” materialised here. You step inside, breakfast regulars.” With gourmet You even sold your home, instead of past the wooden cask hanging above coffee, and a breakfast menu including renting it out? Laurent shrugs. “Selling the shop sign, and it feels as if you’ve melt-in-the-mouth croissants, farm everything—that’s a way to give you stumbled on some intimate boîte in eggs and French honeys, I see why. courage; to say, ‘There is no return.’” the Marais. Amid shelves of wines, Laurent is not your regular patron. You have to respect such a radical beers and spirits, a smiling and With swept-back grey streaks in his solution to a mid-life crisis, but Laurent knowledgable chap was helping an hair, he has the look of a handsome had a good idea of what the next step American couple choose a wine for but businesslike badger. It’s no surprise could be. As a lawyer, he’d travelled diner à deux—and, in French, a Swiss to fi nd that, after growing up in the widely. “And in America, Asia, Africa, family picked something perfect for a French Alps, he moved to Paris and for people would say, I love France, I often big deal Sunday lunch. It was bespoke 20 years was a successful barrister. But go, but when I come home I can never service, like being in an intimate fi ve years ago he quit law and moved fi nd the fantastic products I used to eat jeweller’s with carefully selected, with his barrister wife Sally and their or buy there. I thought, why’s that? But beloved items to sell. young daughter Baya to New York. once you look at the distribution, you

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At wine tastings, I say, don’t be too technical. The important thing is pleasure, so keep it simple —your eyes, your nose, the palate. And the only question: do you like it or not?

understand exactly why people can’t now in Islington. But he soon The Howard de Walden Estate get, say, a really nice piece of cheese— began to think about a retail outlet. impressed him by minutely the same quality, the same artisan He was selling to the Dorchester and researching his background. item you’d have every day on your trip L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon in West “They came back and said, to Provence or wherever. It’s because Street, “and the clients of my clients ‘We believe in you.’” Laurent was things are imported for supermarkets wanted to buy the wines, and they told about a tucked-away space on and big stores in bulk—and local couldn’t fi nd them”. Moxon Street. farmers and winemakers don’t The UK retail market is, he says, “And it’s perfect. It’s hidden, it’s produce in those quantities.” “quite closed” when it comes to wines. a little gem, a chez-soi, as we say in The family bought a fl at in “The UK has such massive duties on France—so you can step inside Le Manhattan. It was a place Laurent alcohol, and buyers don’t want to Vieux Comptoir and feel that you’re knew well. “And we knew that we could lower their margins, so the quality of at home.” Not any home I’ve ever have the time we needed—to think, the wine has to drop. It’s impossible to had, mate. He signed the lease in to breathe again, to smell and taste, get a quality bottle of wine for £10.” December and opened the upstairs and to really decide what to do.” So how can Laurent help? “By cutting 17 days later. Laurent settled on a wine business, out the middleman. By importing from And why the name? “Because importing artisan wines, beers and the areas I know so well and small, ‘comptoir’ means so many things. champagnes from France and selling devoted producers; by selling them It can be a bar, or a spot where you to hotels and restaurants. It went myself; and by dealing with all the can buy everything you want. And well—but after 18 months, the family paperwork myself.” There are benefi ts that’s the idea. As you see, we have knew they couldn’t stay. There were to having been a lawyer. He nods. more than wines. There are lovely problems sourcing and supplying over “So now, I can show you it’s possible to things from the Atlantic coast, soupe the distance, but more importantly, get a very good wine for £10 to £15.” de poissons, terrines, French teas. relatives at home were missing Baya, Excited about a shop, Laurent We’ll have spices, jams, honeys—all then 12. “I couldn’t go back to France considered Chelsea and Hampstead, known by the French but unknown and admit defeat. So we came to but chose Marylebone “because it’s the in London. You know, I see so many London, where you can simply jump only place in London with a French ‘French’ things in the UK, but on Eurostar. And it was so much easier.” feel, a French attitude—concerning they’re not authentic.” He gives me At the start, Laurent again ran the design of the streets, the feeling in a name or two of well-known French a wine merchant’s from his home, the air. A French ambience.” purveyors and rolls his eyes.

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Supplies are still arriving—from pastries, tartes and big hay-fi lled bowls Some of the winemakers will Corsica, Alsace, Savoie and other areas of farm eggs. attend, “totally dedicated people, you might not expect. On shelves by But it’s the wines I’m most interested who every day wake up at 5am, one of the big wooden dining tables in, and that’s also the case for Laurent. go into the vineyard, check each I fi nd delicacies from l’Isle d’Yeu, “I know all our suppliers personally, vine. You can’t do these things a tiny island off the Vendée—king and I visit the vineyards three or four mechanically, though some crab with seaweed soup, lobster and times a year. To taste the grape, to winemakers try. You need someone cognac terrine, thonaïade, a kind of crush it, to pick the perfect thing for who cares, who will crush the grapes tuna pesto, and one with squid. In your palate—not mine, but for yours.” slowly to avoid too much pressure, the tea area, pretty tins of every kind How does he know what I like? who will cherish them. And in your of tea and tisane—thé noir, menthe After taking a four-year diploma at glass, you taste the difference.” poivre—jostle with bold-looking London’s Institute of Masters of Wine, Laurent tells me about the brandies coffees produced by Parisian family he believes that “the American palate and cognacs, about the artisan beers, fi rm Terres de Café. doesn’t like acidity, but in general the particularly from Brasserie du Mont Laurent by now is gazing with love English like crisp minerality for white Blanc, high in the Savoie mountains at the cheeses, from the Alps, the wines—and for red, chablis.” near Chamonix, where the beers are Loire, Alsace, and I glimpse a comté, The plan is to set up a wine academy brewed with glacial water and blended some crumbly goats’ cheeses and a at the store, but Laurent already runs with alpine fl ora, herbs, violets. ripe, resplendent Roquefort before informal tastings. “I say, don’t be too He tells me about his ciders, one of we move to the bakery area. technical. The important thing is which is aged in calvados barrels. “Every morning, we get our special pleasure, so keep it simple—your eyes, By now the breakfast folk are delivery of Poilâne bread.” He hauls your nose, the palate. And the only leaving, and the café is preparing up a vast warm paper sack, full of question: do you like it or not?” for lunch. Dragging myself away, aromatic loaves, and picks out a walnut I just have time to see what’s being bread. “For every three kilos of bread, LINKS chalked on the blackboard—croque you add a kilo of walnuts.” He breaks monsieurs, gazpacho, a raspberry off a chunk. The scent is intoxicating. Le Vieux Comptoir and apple tarte in all its golden glory. “Would you like to share a croissant? 26-28 Moxon Street Go for brunch. Go for an early Baked for us this morning.” It melts in levieuxcomptoir.co.uk evening (it’s open until 8pm). your mouth. There’s also charcuterie, But you know, you really should go.

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Purl bar. As a name, it could not Emanuele Genovese, “cheffy”. “It’s not PURL be more apposite. Not that the a science, it’s an art. It’s hard to cook, surrounding Marylebone Village and it’s hard to make a cocktail.” Yet JAM should be compared to a gnarly during the 1970s and the 80s it seemed grey oyster shell, but there are a the quality of cocktails paled into Marylebone’s Purl bar—named after an wealth of similarities between this insignifi cance next to demands that old English drink consisting of warm ale, subterranean speakeasy and a they be colorful and strong. gin, wormwood and spices—has been at pearl. Hard to fi nd and delightful to “Cosmopolitan, pina colada, sex on the forefront of London’s recent cocktail discover, it nestles beneath the placid the beach—big, bright, showy cocktails renaissance. Clare Finney meets general pavement of Blandford Street. that looked impressive and got you manager Emanuele Genovese Purl does cocktails. Serious drunk,” says Emanuele, grimacing. cocktails, of the type that make you Needless to say, you won’t fi nd such suspect all the other cocktails you’ve travesties here. These guys know their had were merely imposters. These are history, their liquors, what makes a the forgotten cocktails, cooked up marriage in mixology—and how and in the 19th century and prohibition where to serve it. era by men who wore white tie, had worked behind bars in posh hotels How did you come into making cocktails? for 40 years, and who knew their My dad in Italy used to run a whisky from their whiskey. restaurant bar, and I always said, ‘I will Then came the 1970s, and the never work in that business.’ But then “bastardisation of our industry”, to use come the summer holidays I would operation manager Keiran Cusker’s always be there helping. After school term. Before the 1970s, bartending I worked for my dad for two years was, explains general manager before moving to London. I went to

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the UKBG bartender school for four cosy bar, which is well hidden but months, then started working in bars. accessible, and secondly because we One day, a cocktail consultant from do good cocktails, presented well. Fluid Movement was brought into the Notting Hill bar I was working The cocktail renaissance seems to have in—and that was it for me. He showed proved immune to the recession. Why? us how to think about cocktails, be People will always gamble, people will creative, make theatrical drinks. From always drink. We’re in England—one then on working for Fluid Movement of the countries that drinks the most was the dream. After opening my own in the world. What you don’t see, since bar in Italy with my brother, I moved the recession, is people coming out to The Gilbert Scott and worked and whacking loads on the company alongside Marcus Wareing—and card. They’re out as frequently, but it was while I was there that Fluid they don’t spend as big because it’s Movement asked me to help with Purl. their money. We used to get suits coming in and it was all, ‘Champagne! What makes a good bartender? Champagne!’ Now it’s a bit different, The thing is to basically be a chef. because of the fi nancial constraints. Instead of cooking food, we cook spirits. There are two types of Do you work much behind the bar these days? bartender: the one who just does his Not really. It’s a shame, but I do like job—shaking, with no expression to focus on the fl oor and delivering or heart in it—and then there’s the cocktails—because if a good cocktail bartender that gives an experience to is delivered poorly, it’s only 50 per the customer, who creates a show. cent complete. If I bring you this amazing cocktail, with fog billowing Surely you can just follow a recipe? out of it, in an amazing vessel, then You can. But never forget, it’s a guide— walk off without telling you what it is if you are an artist you will slightly or what to do with it, it’s half fi nished. change it and make it your own. It could be the best thing ever, but you won’t be impressed. It’s the Passers-by could drop a coin in the I always think that’s true of mojitos—the same if you go for a Michelin starred cat’s mouth. The proprietor would recipe is simple, but hard to pull off… restaurant and the waitress doesn’t then dispense a shot of gin from A mojito is a simple drink made badly tell you what’s on the plate. a tube under the paws. It’s slightly by a lot of people. Essentially it is a sweeter than London dry gin. We peasant’s drink from Cuba, shaken How do you develop new cocktail recipes? can’t wait to use it. quickly and served on ice, but most All new ideas come from old ideas. people these days monkey around with Sometimes it’s a new spirit, sometimes What’s your poison? muddling lime wedges and mint, when it’s reading a book and seeing an Depends on how I feel. I quite like a all that does is makes it bitter, and then old recipe, sometimes it’s just seeing Manhattan, but I also like wine, beer, add far too much sugar to compensate. how someone serves me a coffee. negroni, martini—I’m pretty moody. It’s a symptom of the bastardisation Bartenders work methodically, like It often depends on the weather. of our industry. The 1980s destroyed chefs, trying different combinations the cocktail scene. It wasn’t really to bring out a fl avour or mask another. How did growing up in Italy infl uence your until the early part of this century that We recently acquired Old Tom gin, approach to cocktails? bartending had a bit of a renaissance. a popular drink in gin palaces in the It’s had a lot of infl uence. For a start, 1880s, which would be served under I know the drinks from there— And is Purl part of this renaissance? a cat-shaped plaque hung outside. vermouth, prosecco—so tend to use Purl was the second prohibition-style them. Also, we are the people who love bar to open in London, after Milk LINKS food. In Italy I developed this passion. & Honey in Soho. The idea was to I like smell, I like fl avour, I like the feel. reintroduce the forgotten cocktails of Purl Being a bartender and being a chef go the 1880s and 90s, when bartending 50-54 Blandford Street hand in hand, because both are about was in its golden age. We have been purl-london matching fl avours. Working here is the successful fi rstly because it’s a really dream because they understand that.

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to them. Our season usually starts FOOD & ME in late June with a variety called Merchant, followed by Vanda and MICHAEL DALLAWAY OF Samba, both big, fi rm, dark cherries. DALLAWAYS CHERRIES We have a white cherry called Vega. We didn’t have any last year, because they got frosted, but the year before we had a great crop and people were falling over themselves to get them. White cherries are quite rare these How long has your family been in the or phosphorus, and then spray the days, you don’t sort of see that many. cherry business? orchards every week to feed them And for the generation over 50, In 1985 my dad bought land in those missing nutrients. And that white cherries remind them of their Sandhurst, Kent, and planted a goes right through until harvest time. childhood, so they get very excited cherry orchard. We also had apple when they see them. trees back then. Though I helped How long does harvest last? dad throughout my teens I didn’t Five to six weeks, and as soon as harvest When can we expect to see you at the actually intend to go into farming. is over we have to prune the trees, farmers’ market? He was letting the orchards come which takes another six weeks. We then The cherry season lasts six weeks to the end of their commercial life feed the trees again, so they have the and I think we’ll be there from the before winding things down. But dad food ready in the bud for when they last Sunday in June. As well as fresh passed away in 2000, so I inherited the burst the following spring, and we put cherries we’ll also have our 100 per farm—at the time I was temping up in another fertiliser on. So it’s pretty full cent pure cherry juice, which has the City. I didn’t want the farm to be on. It’s properly hectic six days a week proved very popular at Marylebone. sold and decided I was plenty young for most of that time and seven days This will be our fi fth summer there, enough to give it a go. There was loads a week during harvest. And we start which also happens to be the 10th of replanting and other things to be playing around with our cherry brandy anniversary of the market. done and I couldn’t have managed and cherry vodka over the quieter without my mum’s help. We now have winter months. How does it feel to base your entire another two orchards in Kent, which livelihood on just six weeks? I rent off neighbouring farmers. Our What factors result in great cherries? Your question answers itself—utter fourth orchard is at Cooks Yard Farm, Our climate. We tend to get a bit insanity, some people would suggest, where I’m actually based, just across of everything, without too many especially when you get a year like the border into Sussex. extremes, and that lends itself to 2012. I don’t think we’ve ever worked them having a great fl avour. But it’s so hard for what turned out to be such Do cherry trees take much looking after? really just looking after the trees and a poor crop, just because the weather Yes, and it’s all year round, pretty making sure they have all the nutrients was against us. There wasn’t a day much. January and February are our they need, and then we only pick the where it didn’t rain during picking—it quiet months, so we use that time cherries when they’re actually ready, was ridiculous. You need to be able to to repair the nets to keep the birds because it’s all about the taste when accept that everything is geared up for off and to repair the supporting people buy at farmers’ markets. Most those six weeks. You can make what framework. From March we start cherries are picked probably a week some people would consider a fortune putting on a bit of weed control before they should be, so their sugar in six weeks, but obviously you don’t and fertilisers. We also do tree levels aren’t really up and are quite take any more money for the next 46 manipulation at that time of year bland. And the difference that extra weeks. And you need some discipline, when the sap is starting to rise, week makes—a cherry being probably so you don’t get overexcited and run bending branches down so they grow 10 to 15 per cent bigger and twice as out of money in January—six months horizontally rather than straight up sweet, just a world apart quite frankly. before the next lot comes in. into the sky. This eases picking and also makes the tree crops heavier, How many varieties do you grow? LINKS because it forces the sap to grow Around 30. Each has a slightly through the tree rather than up the different fl avour, as my regulars at Dallaways Cherries tree. We also send off leaf samples the Marylebone Farmers’ Market Marylebone Farmers’ Market to fi nd out if the trees are lacking have come to discover. They are all rentacherrytree.co.uk any nutrients, for example, nitrogen sweet, but some have a bit of tartness

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RIB OF BEEF WITH A WARM Look for a good butcher selling best Chris King’s recipe SUMMER TOMATO AND quality, dry-aged beef with a good amount GRILLED COS SALAD of marbling. Remember, also, that rib of beef shouldn’t be served too rare—it needs Chris King, chef de cuisine, time on the grill to let the fat render and Roux at The Landau work its magic. Also known as a ‘côte de boeuf’ in France, a rib of beef is a perfect cut to grill or barbecue. Serves 4 Thanks to the generous amount of marbling, as the beef cooks the fat renders to keep Ingredients the meat beautifully tender—plus there’s a 2 ribs of dry-aged best quality beef, bone to gnaw on too! A fresh, tangy tomato bone in and grilled lettuce salad is all that’s needed Sea salt to accompany the beef to make a lovely Cracked black pepper summer lunch, hopefully outdoors! 1 head of cos lettuce Tomatoes are at their very best in 2kg mixed ripe heritage tomatoes the summer months and for this salad 1 bunch large spring onions, thinly sliced you need them perfectly ripe. Choose ½ small loaf sourdough bread tomatoes that are just yielding to the 1 clove garlic touch. Often the best tomatoes are the Extra virgin olive oil ugly, misshapen ones and a little light Sherry vinegar bruising is nothing to be afraid of. 1 tbsp fennel seeds, lightly toasted and The single most important thing to crushed make this dish work is great quality beef. Basil leaves

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Method A few hours before you intend to cook the Top tipple beef, remove it from the fridge and allow to come up to room temperature—this will help to cook the meat evenly. Remove the tomatoes from the fridge to take the chill off.

Heat your grill or barbecue until very hot—you want to get a nice char on your beef. Season the rib generously with cracked black pepper and sea-salt. Lightly oil the beef—not too much or it will ﬂ ame on the grill and end up with an acrid taste. Place on the grill.

After a few minutes turn the beef 90 degrees to achieve that classic crosshatched look. Cook for about 8 minutes on one side. Remove the rib to a tray and allow the grill to come back up to temperature—you might need to drain off some of the excess fat. Return the rib to the grill and repeat on the second side. The beef is cooked when it feels just springy to the touch in the centre.

Remove the beef, cover with tin foil and leave to rest in a warm place for at least 15 minutes—the rule is to rest the meat for as long as it has cooked.

Cut the cos lettuce lengthways into quarters, oil, season and char on the grill for a few Malacca Malacca gin from Tanqueray, which uses the minutes. Remove the cos and cut widthways Aprés London fi nest botanicals. We chose the Aperol, into wide strips and place in a large bowl. which is an Italian sweet liqueur, as the —40ml Tanqueray Malacca Gin herbs and roots used in the liquor, such Roughly dice the sourdough then toast in (Limited Edition) as bitter and sweet oranges, are ones a hot frying pan with a little olive oil and —10ml Aperol that suggest summer. The Peychaud a clove of crushed garlic. When golden —25ml lemon juice bitters and the bitter oranges keeps brown, add the croutons to the lettuce. —10ml passion fruit syrup the balance right and stop the cocktail —1 dash of peychaud bitters becoming too sweet.” The result is a Rinse and roughly dice the tomatoes, pips —10ml sugar syrup light fl owery easy to drink cocktail and all, and again add to the bowl along —A little orange zest with a long fi nish. Perfect for those with the thinly sliced spring onions. long Marylebone summer evenings. This is a cocktail that has its origins Combine all the ingredients in Season generously with salt, sherry right here in Marylebone, created by the base of a Boston shaker and dry vinegar and plenty of olive oil. Sprinkle on a Aprés mixologists Jez Jewitt and Dani shake without ice to make it extra few crushed fennel seeds and ripped basil Sanchez. According to Dani the pair fl uffy. Then fi ll the shaker with ice leaves and mix everything gently. wanted to create something summery, and shake hard. Double strain the that would be launched as a Cocktail cocktail into a frozen glass, sprinkle Serve the beef carved into generous slices of the Month and then move on to some orange zest over the light foam with a little more olive oil and sea-salt. become a staple on the Après menu on top and serve. through the summer. Roux at The Landau “We called it Malacca Malacca Aprés London 1C Portland Place because we wanted to call attention to 31 Duke Street rouxatthelandau.com the limited edition gin we were using,” 020 7224 3452 says Dani. “Malacca gin is a very fl oral apres-london.com

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World of Wine

WINE CONSULTANT ROBERT GIORGIONE ON THE SOMETIMES TRICKY TASK OF MATCHING WINES WITH VEGETARIAN FOOD

Looking for harmony and balance Turkey, Israel and Lebanon have a the region is also known for its ﬁ ne between food and wine can at times wine heritage that goes back centuries red wines. Pinot Noir, St Laurent and be quite a challenge, particularly and their quality has improved Zweigelt thrive here. The following when it comes to certain vegetables. considerably, especially since the two Austrian reds would work really

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For me, fresh, crisp and elegant German Rieslings, with their apple Artinger Blaufrankisch, with its CM white wines, sparkling, lightly-fortiﬁ ed and citrus-scented aromas and lovely savoury quality and good acid or aromatic, are perfect for drinking mouth-watering acidity, and the on the ﬁ nish. MY with vegetables and salads. Most of all, peppery and aromatic Gruner Don’t overlook the English 2010 CY

I’m looking for freshness and texture Veltliners that are native to its Bolney Estate “Dark Harvest” either. CMY in the wine that comes from having neighbour, Austria. For me, Gruner At £9.49, not only should this home- good acidity (normally on the fi nish) Veltliner, with its hallmark notes grown, approachable red grab your K and being made in a fruit-driven style, of white pepper, especially on the attention, but also provide you with an not over-laden with too much oak nose, leading to spicy aromas of interesting discovery. It is a medium- or alcohol. A good example would fresh ginger and ripe stone fruits, is a bodied wine with wonderful red-fruit be the 2011 Three Choirs “Annum” no-brainer for challenging vegetable fl avours and a slightly smoky fi nish, (£8.99), an aromatic blend of four or dishes. Waitrose has an excellent made from a blend of Dornfelder and fi ve grape varieties, which is perfect selection, ranging from the easy and Rondo grapes. A complex set of aromas alongside English asparagus or Thai approachable 2011 Domaine Wachau including red berry fruits and spicy green curries. The 2011 Hatzidakis (£9.99) or the 2011 “Moosbrgrn” oak are balanced by a gentle freshness. Assyrtiko Santorini, Greece (£10.99) (£11.99) from the Felsner Perhaps lightly-chilled, this would work is a fresh, fl oral, minerally white, family estate to a couple of more well with a plate of roasted vegetables, produced from old Assyrtiko vines sophisticated examples. For the more ‘meaty’ aubergine and mushroom grown on the steep volcanic slopes adventurous among you, I suggest dishes or even a classic ratatouille. of Santorini. The Assyrtiko grape you try the 2010 Rotgipfl er from contributes to a pristine and spicy Heinrich Hartl in Thermenregion, LINKS palate, with fantastic acidity. The just south of Vienna. At £16.99 it’s white wines of Greece are of course quite pricey, but trust me, not only Robert’s blog excellent with Mediterranean will you fi nd this traditional Austrian robertgiorgione.com dishes—try this with fresh seasonal grape variety interesting, but also its twitter.com/robertgiorgione salads, grilled halloumi and a richer, fuller fl avour on the palate Consultancy, advice and bespoke tastings selection of marinated vegetables. should combine well with spicy [email protected] Other wines from the Eastern dishes and exotic vegetable curries. Mediterranean—a region blessed Zierfandler and Rotgipfl er grape Robert’s book, An Epicurean Odyssey: with fantastic vegetarian cuisine—are varieties fl ourish in Thermenregion Sommelier Stories, is out now. Visit his also worth a look. Countries such as despite rarely growing elsewhere, and website or Lulu.com

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AT HOME WITH THE GENERAL IN VICTORIAN MARYLEBONE, ONE OF THE AREA’S MOST GLAMOROUS CELEBRITIES WAS THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL BY TOM HUGHES

We have, with some very good reasons, the best way to advance his military wife purchased 23 Portman Square, lost the taste for venerating our career was to try to get himself killed. at the northwest corner of the square. military leaders, present and past. He put in the effort. When a teenage It was one of the most aristocratic The great commanders of yore, the subaltern out in Burma, in his fi rst purlieus in the capital. The Hyatt generals and admirals of the fl eet, may military action, a formidable gingall Churchill Hotel occupies the entire still strike a determined pose from ball passed through his leg and he block today. The Wolseleys were a atop their various plinths around the nearly bled to death. In the Crimea, remarkable couple. He was strikingly city but the civilian population often at Sebastopol, an exploding Russian slight—in his youth, he was even scuttles by without a thought or look, shell destroyed his right eye. His thought to be “girlish”. But, of course, let alone a silent salute. But it was so greatest campaign came in 1874; he had the requisite bearing. He different in the simpler days of Nelson though struck down by fever, he spoke in a strong voice, “its tones quite and Wellington and Wolseley. led his forces against the rebellious suave and courteous, but tinged with Wait a second, I hear the cry, Ashantees in West Africa. From the decisive authoritative utterance of Wolseley? I have never heard of the Kumasi (Coomassie), he returned to the soldier accustomed to command man. Tell me more. London to a reception worthy of and to be unhesitatingly obeyed”. General Sir Garnet Wolseley was a national hero. Disraeli called him Lady Wolseley, the former Miss Louisa ever at the ready for his imperial “our only soldier”. Victoria knighted Erskine, from a military family herself, Queen. “With portmanteaus packed him and the expression “all Sir was a renowned beauty. She once and warpaint always fresh,” he was Garnet” was coined to mean that boasted that she had the exact fi gure prepared to serve. Whether it was on everything was ready and correct, of the Venus de Milo. To be sure, the wild western plains of Canada bang on. He was, as Gilbert wrote to some of the neighbours thought the or the steaming tropics of Africa, Sullivan’s score, “the very model of a Wolseleys were arrogant and snobbish. Sir Garnet sallied forth to crush any modern major-general”. But Henry James, the novelist (and resistance to the spread of British red Soon after the conquering hero’s snob), who became a regular visitor across the map. Wolseley believed that return to London, Wolseley and his to “exquisite” Portman Square, found

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AT HOME WITH THE GENERAL The world of EFG sponsorship EFG Private Bank is part of the global family of private banking businesses of EFG International. We are active across a broad range of sporting and cultural sponsorships, designed to reflect the diversity of a refi ned lady’s governing hand.” new fancies”, she grumbled. But rather than the tapestries and She was delighted when he was sent of clients and our people. Chippendale chairs, the high point out to run Cyprus, a place he loathed. for Yates was the general’s gracious But Wolseley was soon recalled from invitation to enter his private the Mediterranean. Hicks-Beach, sanctum, a room festooned with the colonial secretary and neighbour the trophies of war. Alas, most of at 40 Portman Square, needed the Wolseley’s collection of loot had gone general to hasten out to crush the up in fl ames when the Pantechnicon, Zulus who had recently thrashed the a massive Victorian self-storage pile British army at Isandlwhana. Wolseley The reporter praised the in Belgravia, burned to the ground returned in triumph escorting the elegant style of the home in 1874. Nevertheless, the visitor captured king, Cetawayo, who—if to Portman Square was begged to anything—was the greater celebrity that her ladyship had made. admire “the quaintly-carved wooden of the season. But rather than the tapestries stools of African kings, trophies of The Wolseleys sold 23 Portman and Chippendale chairs, the arms, Kaffi r assegais, and cowhide Square in 1879, making something high point was the general’s shields. Many other memories of the like a 25 per cent profi t. They moved stirring scenes through which to Mayfair and we shan‘t follow them gracious invitation to enter Sir Garnet has passed are to be found there. In truth, the general was rarely his private sanctum, a room scattered here and there up and down at home. Lady Wolseley tired of festooned with the trophies the house.” socialising without him: “I really of war Though the general was happy felt as if every Jill had her Jack, and amid his uxorious comforts at home, I belonged to nobody.” While he was smoking and pouring over his maps, away, they corresponded daily, his he freely admitted, that “without a letters to “beloved Loo” reaching moment’s hesitation”, he would leave London from cantonments afar. for service if called. Yates thought the Wolseley went on to command empire was in good hands: “It would be a victory at the great battle of Tel- diffi cult to fi nd a man more absolutely el-Kebir in Egypt, for which the free from what is commonly called Queen, however reluctantly, made them delightful company. “Sir Garnet ‘nerves’. This faculty of high courage, him a viscount. But his greatest is a very handsome, well-mannered combined with a perfectly cool head at disappointment came when he was and fascinating little man with moments of great emergency, augurs too tardily given command of the rosy dimples and an eye of steel; an most strongly Sir Garnet’s probable expedition to march up the Nile to excellent specimen of the cultivated success as a commanding general in save General Gordon, besieged by British soldier.” Lady Wolseley, James the days to come.” the Mahdi’s army in the Sudan. They wrote to his brother, “is pretty, and His rivals thought the article was arrived too late, of course. Wolseley has the air, the manners, the toilets typical toady puffery and slated had quite fancied the idea of being and the taste of an American”. Wolseley as a self-promoter. While at someday the Duke of Khartoum. 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A WORD IN YOUR EAR AUDIOLOGIST ADAM SHULBERG ON TREATING HEARING LOSS IN THE 21ST CENTURY BY VIEL RICHARDSON

“The biggest misconception people upon communication rather than have about hearing impairment is just hearing. that the hearing aid is the solution,” “The fi rst time a patient comes says Adam Shulberg, managing to see us we spend a good hour to director of Cubex. “The important 90 minutes interviewing them, and thing to understand with hearing loss if possible a relative or a signifi cant is that it is a communication disorder. other as well,” explains Adam. And as such it doesn’t just affect the “We really explore from the outset person, but their friends, family and the way their communication everybody surrounding them. So disorder impacts on them and those we believe it is vital to involve those around them—how it makes them people at the outset.” feel, how it makes the family feel.” This approach sums up the way Hearing impairment can often that Cubex has been approaching lead to people disengaging, such the task of helping people with is the stress involved in trying to hearing issues since it was set up by communicate. They might begin Adam’s father Monty over 40 years to say things like, “I’m not going to ago. While the word ‘audiologist’ will go down to the social club this week not be familiar to many people, the because people don’t speak clearly,” services they offer most defi nitely or “I’m not going to go to church will be. this Sunday, because the vicar “Audiology is a very broad fi eld doesn’t speak properly anymore.” covering diagnostics, treatment and As their lives become narrower and rehabilitation of hearing impairment narrower, they become increasingly issues,” Adam explains. “The kind socially isolated. of audiology people will be familiar Cubex sets out to break this with is the high street private hearing downward spiral. “We build a plan aid audiologist. They can examine that we think will increase their ears in a fairly rudimentary way, and ability to communicate,” says Adam. prescribe and fi t hearing aids, and “One of the ways this approach provide a certain amount of follow- manifests itself is in the fact that we up service.” use speech audiometry in making By contrast, the way that Cubex our assessments. Most audiologists works is fi rmly based around this test using pure tones—asking people central belief that its focus should be to press a button when they hear

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the beep. That test has been around and measure what is happening at The important thing for 100 years. In my view, using it in the eardrum level. This gives us a to understand with the 21st century is wrong when the very accurate measure of what the technology has moved on so much. system is delivering to correlate with hearing loss is that it is a People don’t go to an audiologist what the patient tells us they are communication disorder. because they can’t hear beeps hearing. When they leave we will And as such it doesn’t and tones, they go because they get them to keep a diary, or fi ll in a just affect the person, but can’t communicate, and the most structured questionnaire about when important part of communication they are hearing well or not so well. their friends, family and is speech.” We may ask them to pay particular everybody surrounding them Speech audiometry tests a attention to those problem areas they patient’s facility for identifying identifi ed when they fi rst came in.” words. “Initially the patient is asked Adam also points out the to repeat monosyllabic words like importance of managing the cat, sat, sit, which are short and out expectations of both the patient of context, so there are no clues. and their family. “It is important to catch any potential issues early. What the patient repeats is normally recognise that we don’t hear with our It’s possible to conduct tests with exactly what they hear, so it is a very ears, but with our brains, and this sound frequencies beyond those used accurate test. We also check the could be the fi rst time in a decade in speech. If we spot a developing physical condition of the middle ear or more that the brain is getting this problem at those frequencies the during initial consultations and use level of sound information. Like only thing we might have to prescribe microscopes to examine the area very any other under-used muscle, it will is a change in behaviour to alleviate carefully. We need to make sure that be a bit rusty. It will take a while to the issue.” nothing is wrong that we might need reconnect with the improved signal But for those people whose to refer onwards, as there are some and translate that into improved hearing is not at particular risk, medical conditions that manifest understanding.” the question is, what signs should themselves in the ears.” In many cases, prevention can be they look for, and what should we Although not the whole story, better than cure. “I would say that for do when we fi nd them? “There are hearing aids are often an important anybody who works in a job which signs—they might begin feeling part of the solution to hearing could put their hearing at risk, it is more fatigued or comment that impairment. But fi tting a hearing important to have a test in order to people around them are not aid is not as straightforward as fi tting establish a baseline,” says Adam. speaking clearly. They might start a pair of glasses. “If the solution “It means that if they develop to avoid certain situations. And if involves some kind of hearing concerns they have a reference any of this is happening, they need system, we will fi t one, but it won’t point to check their hearing against. to be quite honest with themselves be a case of simply putting on the Musicians are a good example. and it is probably a good idea to hearing aid and saying, ‘How does They can get very worried and have a hearing test. If you recognise that sound?’” Adam explains. “We upset if there is a hearing issue to these traits in others, you have to be know the environments that they be addressed. Some feel their career very careful about how you broach have had problems with, be it in is on the line, while others might the subject, because often if you tell the theatre, the offi ce, a restaurant, worry about a loss of confi dence from people they have a hearing loss they chatting with friends, and we re- their peers. An annual check would tend to immediately go onto the create those environments here defensive. Maybe suggest that you using speakers and sound fi les. We LINKS know someone else who was having then do independent verifi cation similar issues and that they had a of what the hearing system is doing. Cubex hearing test. Either way it is better We will place tiny microphones in 25 New Cavendish Street to do something—we can now do the ear before fi tting the system and 020 7935 5511 much more than many people realise then introduce a series of set sounds, cubex.co.uk to improve their communication be they speech or background noise, abilities after some hearing loss.”

MJ Jun 13 Health 64-65.indd 2 29/05/2013 13:35:52 66—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL HEALTH: IN BRIEF SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Angela Anastassopoulos of MV Fitness talks to Viel Richardson about setting up a boutique wellbeing studio A hearing aid that can do it all...

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When in July 1987 the Prince of Wales opened the newly refurbished crypt at St Marylebone Parish Church it was the CARE IN THE culmination of a two year programme designed to create a community space based around the tenets of physical COMMUNITY and spiritual healing. Now, over two decades later, the passage of time and Preparations are underway for a major refurbishment of the changing needs of the community the crypt below St Marylebone Parish Church—a space mean that the nature and function dedicated to healthcare and community activities. Reverend of the crypt are being looked at once again. This time it is Reverend Stephen Evans talks to Viel Richardson about the plans Stephen Evans who faces the task of shepherding this new project through to completion.

What is the project in hand? In 1987 the church was able to offer a brand new space beneath the church, which contained a doctors’ surgery and a psychotherapy centre, along with a series of other organisations dealing with the whole question of wellness and healing. But 25 years on people’s needs have changed and the space needs looking at again, both to bring about a coherence to its use and turn it into a 21st century space as opposed to a modiﬁ cation of a 19th century space.

Where did the idea come from? I came to the church two and a half years ago, and a change of leadership is a good time to look at how the church delivers its privileges. We are in an enormously privileged position to serve an area with such a diverse number of communities and institutions. We set up a review group to see how we use this extraordinary building and to understand how the various stakeholders who use the crypt relate to each other and the wider community. We discovered a belief that one of the things preventing activities from taking place was a space that was tired and compromised. Over the years various stakeholders had shifted their spaces and were now using the crypt in a different way to that initially envisioned.

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Who are the stakeholders here? surgery because the changes that are is the church equivalent of planning We have a great many. There’s happening in primary health care consent, and also applications for the Marylebone Health Centre mean that a lot more services are to planning consents from Westminster with about 10,000 patients; the St be delivered on the premises. for aspects affecting the appearance Marylebone Healing and Counselling Hospitality is another area in need of the building and for working in a Centre, alongside which we have of a rethink. For many years we had a conservation area. If all of those are a group of spiritual directors who café, but it closed last year because of successful, we will move forwards with meet with people to discuss their a suspected structural issue. We would the project with Caroe Architects. spiritual journey; the St Marylebone like to go back to having some way of School—they use the church as their providing a refreshment space. Is the Howard de Walden Estate involved? school chapel among other things. Also the access created in the 1980s The Estate has always been supportive A stakeholder that must not be doesn’t meet any of the present access of the work of the parish church— overlooked is the congregation that legislation. The lift is very small and we are actually about to begin some worships here. We have a very large needs replacing, and the only access work in the main church space which Young Church, and a junior choir staircase is a very small spiral staircase is partly funded by the Estate. They which needs space to meet. We are which was never designed to take the have also been represented at the also home to the Guild of Health—an huge numbers that use it at present. presentation of the feasibility study, ecumenical body dealing with issues We also wanted to reconnect with so they are taking an interest. of illness and healing in people’s Marylebone High Street. Unusually lives. Our organ is the main practise this church is not orientated east-west How will the funding work? instrument for the Royal Academy but north-south. This was to do with That is still all to be discovered. I think of Music and their students are here the design of Regent’s Park and York we will seek some grant aid, and we daily. We have a close involvement Gate, but it means we turn our back will revisit some of the individuals with the hospitals in the area. Part onto the high street. We wanted a way and agencies that helped 25 years of the driving force for this project of connecting the new space to the ago. We have some funds available is to provide a more accessible and high street and the church garden, but it will hopefully be a joint venture pleasant space that will give us much which is a very popular area with locals. with as many stakeholders as possible. more fl exibility in accommodating Not least because it is a space for the a large number of people in a very What’s the next step? community, and the community confi ned 19th century building. The feasibility report will be worked needs to get involved rather than up into a set of plans and alongside simply sitting outside the process. What stage are you at now? that process there will be a range We have employed Caroe Architecture of public consultations. While This will be diffi cult and time-consuming. to carry out a feasibility study. Oliver churches have something called Why undertake it at all? Caroe is the surveyor to the fabric of an Ecclesiastical Exemption and If churches are going to retain a place St Paul’s Cathedral, and worked for have their own planning controls at the centre of their community, me on a project in my previous parish. and authority, we still have to go to which they have had in this country He is very good at using some quite Westminster council. We also have to for 1,500 years, then they have to keep awkward spaces very creatively. go to people like the Georgian Group, on engaging with those communities. He headed up the feasibility study and the Victorian Society and other It is extraordinary how people that has now been produced. We have groups who have a right to comment connect with this space. They see it as since had the fi rst public meeting to on what we do with the building. sacred, but also as welcoming, and we share what he has suggested. These consultations will result in want to retain this while giving access the application for a Faculty, which to even more people. If the church is What was his brief? to have a place within any community, Oliver’s task was to increase the space LINKS then I believe it has to be seen to be where possible but really to come up proactively engaging with those who with a more coherent space within St Marylebone Parish Church see themselves as part of the church the limits. We wanted to increase the stmarylebone.org community, and extend that welcome space available to the Marylebone to the wider community as a whole.

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Tim Fairweather is one of Park. All in all, Marylebone is just an and one dedicated to property the directors of independent easy place to live. I have been here for management. The way the company nearly 20 years and fundamentally it is is structured means that each offi ce estate agency Sandfords a very happy place to be. markets every property, which no other agent seems to do. Another How long has Sandfords been here? What do you like about working in difference is our dedicated offi ce We have been in the local market Marylebone? for dealing with management for over 25 years. We were originally This is a very easy area in which to services. Setting that up was quite set up dealing in the Regent’s Park be an estate agent because you can a bold move, but we wanted to take market and have expanded to walk everywhere. I walk to all my complete control of the process have two offi ces in the Marylebone appointments, you meet people as so that we could guarantee the area, one covering south of the you go along who you would miss if quality of service, and it is now Marylebone Road and the other you were in a car. paying dividends. covering the north. I joined in 2006 as a partner and a director. What makes Sandfords stand out? What is your personal specialism? Sandfords has four offi ces in total: I specialise in the Marylebone What makes Marylebone a good place three residential sales and lettings, market. This is where I have built to live? a lot of relationships. I deal with So many things. Marylebone is quite LINKS everything from studio fl ats to big compact so everything is within houses. I know people who started in easy reach. The high street is very Sandfords the area with studio fl ats and are now condensed, but has all the necessary 6 Paddington Street in fi ve bedroom houses. amenities. You are surrounded by 020 7224 4994 There is a lot of technical great food and culture, and you’re half sandfords.com knowledge you need to do this way between Regent’s Park and Hyde job well, and I have honed my

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knowledge in these areas in relation to the Marylebone area. Places of Interest Does working here present challenges? THE JOURNAL’S REGULAR GUIDE TO THE BEST HOMES AND OFFICES One of the main challenges of working AVAILABLE TO RENT FROM THE HOWARD DE WALDEN ESTATE in this area is that you have to take your due diligence very seriously. A lot of the properties sold here are cash sales, so there is no mortgage involved. This means that a lot of responsibility falls to the estate agents, and it is not always easy. More than once we have had old clients come to us saying things they were told during sale negotiations that turned out not to be the case, and asking us to take on the sale.

Anything else? Then there’s the whole range of things like enfranchisement. This is about your rights in relation to extending a lease. We know the way the law works, we can recommend you to good local lawyers, we know the freeholders in the area. I think it is vital to know the local market and to know other people who specialise in working here. I know when to roll out the right lawyers, I know when to role out the right surveyors. I have built up relationships, which I like to share with people. But I also know when to give advice from in-house.

What has been your favourite sale? It was a mews house on Devonshire Place. It was a complete mews property with both the large house and the mews house behind. It was just a lovely property and a nice sale process to go through—all parties 23-25 Weymouth Street were nice people, and I happen to This bright, spacious apartment is situated know it has made a lovely family home. on the ﬁ rst ﬂ oor of an Edwardian mansion block, complete with distinctive period How is the market now? features and a lift. Beautifully refurbished, The Marylebone market has become it has three bedrooms, two bathrooms a lot more global now. London is and a large reception room. It is perfectly attracting more people as a place situated—close to the amenities of to live and they are homing in on Marylebone High Street, and just a stone’s Marylebone. Quite frankly I think it throw from the entrance to Regent’s Park. should have happened a long time ago. It is a fabulous place. My advice Howard de Walden Estate is if you have the means then move 020 7290 0912 quickly, because I think things are hdwe.co.uk only going to keep going up.

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Park Crescent, Marylebone W1 A beautiful three bedroom lateral apartment A three bedroom lateral apartment located on the third floor (with lift) of an elegant KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone Nash designed crescent. Comprising master bedroom suite, 2 further bedroom suites, [email protected] spacious reception room and interconnecting dining room, kitchen / breakfast room, 020 3641 7937 guest cloakroom. Energy rating E. Approximately 229 sq m (2,465 sq ft) Leasehold Guide price: £4,750,000

(MRY100087)

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Montagu Square, Marylebone W1 Luxurious apartment

A beautifully presented duplex apartment, refurbished to a high specification. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, shower room, reception room, dining room, kitchen, cloakroom, garage. Energy rating C. Approximately 205 sq m (2,203 sq ft)

Furnished

£2,500 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone [email protected] 020 3544 2485

(MRQ176976)

Hallam Street, Fitzrovia W1 Choice of apartments

A selection of contemporary apartments in a well-maintained period building with lift. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception room, fully integrated kitchens. Energy rating D-G. Approximately 83-96 sq m (900 - 1,044 sq ft)

Unfurnished

From £750 - £895 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone [email protected] 020 3544 2485

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