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08: Estate briefing Community spirit and the Marylebone Fayre People 10: Local lives The two lives of Bob Kidby Features 12: Hearts & crafts Clare Finney discovers a passion for needles and thread 16: Big interview Baroness , senior and self-confessed workaholic Culture 20: The man with the golden touch Dr Kevin Coates takes inspiration from the Wallace Collection 24: Water music American painter Danielle Eubank on her epic adventure 28: Culture in brief Art in Marylebone, Hare Styling and Stephen B Whatley 30: 32: Book reviews Daunt Books’ offerings read and assessed 20: 36: Guide Cultural events in June and July Style 40: Northern soul Skandium founder and design messiah, Chrystina Schmidt 43: Style in brief Bespoke furniture, tailored clothes and fresh new womenswear design 44: New beginnings Fenn Wright Manson’s CEO Louise Barnes on her visions for the future 46: Cape crusaders Mark Riddaway meets Jane Buckley and uncovers Muralto’s provenance Food 48: Rogan’s run Chef Simon Rogan and his pop-up restaurant in Marylebone 52: Food & me Tom McNeile, MD of L’atelier des Chefs 54: World of wine Robert Giorgione takes a look at the wines from our doorstep 48: History 56: The Duke and the dancer The Earl of Orkney, the showgirl and a notorious duke Health 60: Face the future The complex challenges of craniofacial surgery 62: Health in brief John Denoris on golfing, and Baker Street therapist Miki Hildebrand 64: The third way Viel Richardson visits Marylebone’s spectacular new gym Space 66: Spatial awareness Gavin Eyles and his challenging space in Marylebone Mews 70: Space in brief Open Gardens Weekend and a Savills dream home 72: Property advertising 04—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL EDITOR’S LETTER DiSaSTRouS SPELL Mark Riddaway

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Every year, i take a great deal of The Marylebone Summer Fayre is coming pleasure from the Marylebone to town again, bigger and better than ever summer fayre. this is partly because i have such a skilled, the Marylebone summer fayre has well-organised team of always provided an opportunity for people working through the the local community to come together year to ensure that this large in creating a genuinely special day. and complex event goes off although it is organised and run by without a hitch, so i can wander the Howard de Walden Estate, the around the stalls and take in success of the fayre depends upon the atmosphere content in hundreds of retailers, institutions and the knowledge that they have individuals offering their time, skills, everything under control. facilities and enthusiasm to turn the but more than that, it’s because area into an explosion of colour, sound of what the fayre tells me and activity that attracts thousands about Marylebone. of people. this year, the level of Each year, i leave the fayre community involvement in the fayre impressed by the quality, has rocketed, with more people than energy and diversity of the ever contributing to the day’s activities. organisations and individuals the result will be by far the largest and who come together to make most diverse Marylebone summer this event so much fun and fayre in the event’s eight year history. such a lucrative fundraiser for as well as entertaining vast crowds teenage Cancer trust. this of people and showcasing what year many of our restaurants Marylebone has to offer, one of the and retailers have been raising main functions of the fayre will be – hopefully this year will be the most money by asking customers to to raise money for teenage Cancer lucrative yet and will add to this add a pound to the bill, while trust – a charity that provides special impressive tally. Many of the area’s dozens more have provided hospital units for young people with restaurants and retailers have already prizes for our tombola. cancer. these units offer modern, started their fundraising efforts by Hundreds of people offer their specialised medical facilities, and offering punters the chance to add time, resources or expertise, to are designed to meet the social and £1 to their bill. Le relais de Venise raise money or help make the educational needs of young people. L’Entrecote, Electric Hairdressing, fayre such a festival of culture, Most importantly, they provide a place galleria restaurant, the Providores, food, entertainment and family where teenagers with cancer can meet by Marlene birger, Patisserie Valerie, fun, and for that support, i am others in a similar situation, allowing Cafe Luc and the real greek are very grateful. Every year, i see them to build friendships and develop among those who are collecting those an entire community coming mechanisms for coping with their extra quids. together in the name of a good illness. the charity’s aim is to build the area’s retailers have also come time and a good cause, and we sufficient units so that no young person together to provide a spectacular at the Estate are delighted to with cancer in the UK is out of reach. haul of prizes for a huge fundraising help make this happen. these units cost a lot of money, tombola, which is being run by the so fundraising is vital to the charity’s estate agency sandfords. the value Toby Shannon, chief executive, success. the fayre has raised more of the prizes on offer runs to many The Howard de Walden Estate than £100,000 over the last six years thousands of pounds, with highlights 09—MarYLEbOnE JOUrnaL tHE HOWarD DE WaLDEn EstatE

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the gunmakers pub, Waitrose and Diageo. it is thanks to this support that all the money spent at the bar will go directly to teenage Cancer trust. it is not often that buying a drink can count as a selfless act of charity – make sure you seize that opportunity. although the fayre now has a well-established footprint, there are some notable changes to this year’s set-up. the farmers’ market is moving into the Moxon street car park, opening up the high street for many more retailer-run activities, such as by Marlene birger’s t-shirt printing stall, Kabiri’s jewellery-making classes and Deploy’s hat-making stall. the acoustic stage area in the Purple Zone at the top of the high street will be even more of a feature this year, with a superb line up of musicians on the bill, spider Mountain for the kids and an increased number and range of food stalls and seating. at the other end of the site, the road closures will be extended onto blandford street for the first time, where the many restaurants will provide a whole new range of alfresco eating opportunities, accompanied by a brass band and opera singers. a further addition is including a cookery course at La the arrival on Paddington street of Cucina Caldesi, a one-night stay at the a spa area, allowing fayre-goers the royal society of Medicine’s historic opportunity to escape from the hustle Chandos House, meals at numerous and bustle for some quality relaxation. local restaurants, and gifts from no it’s not all change, though. end of beautiful Marylebone Village Marylebone will, as ever, be filled with retailers such as by Marlene birger, extraordinary food and drink. the fresh, Cath Kidston, trilogy and now familiar cast of dancers will be Ortigia. tickets will be on sale on the returning to the red Zone and the day of the fayre from a stall outside brown Zone to get the streets street the sandfords office on Paddington jumping, the Cabbages & frocks street. see the Marylebone summer market will be buzzing away in the LINKS fayre website for a full list of prizes. shadows of the parish church, and the blue Zone in Paddington the Orange Zone in Moxon street car Marylebone Summer Fayre street gardens, will once again host park will again be filled with children’s 19 June a fantastic programme of live music. activities and fairground rides. and 10am-4pm the festival bar, which faces the the Marylebone Journal will be there marylebonesummerfayre.com stage, is again generously sponsored as always, providing readers with the by the Druce and Kay & Co estate opportunity to pick up back issues and agencies and staffed and supplied by share their thoughts with us. 10—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL PEOPLE LOCAL LIVES BOB KIDBY

By day Bob Kidby is an executive director I’ve been in heavy metal bands, for Welbeck Land. By night he sings and country bands, soul, funk, folk, jazz – plays guitar with his band Clarence King all different kinds. and The Regents, who appear once a Clarence King and The Regents month at the Apollo on Paddington Street formed about 10 years ago. We play a mixture of jazz, blues, swing, pop, I was a solicitor for 33 years, and rock and ska. I wanted a band name for the last 16 of those was head that sounded bluesey – somebody of real estate with one of the large and the somethings – and quite international firms in the City. It was liked the idea of using royalty. I then great fun, but 33 years of anything remembered that my grandfather’s Royal, Grosvenor House and a is probably enough, so I decided to Christian name was Clarence. couple more. We had a terrible time change tack and do something else. Clarence King just sounded like a at Claridge’s once. We were told to I became an executive director man who knew how to play blues turn the music down while they made of Welbeck Land in May 2010. The guitar, so Clarence King and The announcements, then turn it back company was created in 1994 to Regents it became. I later found out up again as if we were some kind of expand the Howard de Walden that the most celebrated geologist record player. It was a very difficult set. Estate’s property development in American history is a bloke called We’ve always enjoyed playing the activities outside the estate. Clarence King, who has a mountain National Conker Championships, Welbeck Land has two sides – one is named after him. which is held in the City and is really commercial development, primarily For the last 10 years we’ve been good fun. It’s sponsored by Taylor’s central London offices, but also involved with Party in the Park, Port, so everybody ends up legless. student housing, medical premises which was the idea of Alistair Watson, Once a month we play The Apollo and some residential; the other is the managing director of Welbeck on Paddington Street, and because what’s called strategic land, which is Land. It’s a charitable fundraiser, the Welbeck Land owns the pub, the basically assisting landowners around concept being that the captains of manager has to put up with us. the country to obtain planning the property industry would get up to Do we lead the rock and roll consents for residential development. sing in front of 1,500 people, backed lifestyle? I’ll take my tie off. That’s I’m also a musician – or I play an by my band, with dry ice, television about as rock and roll as it gets, I’m instrument, put it that way. I sing cameras, a proper stage and real afraid. We don’t smash up hotel and also play guitar and harmonica. lighting, having been choreographed rooms – we’re generally trying to Being a product of the early 60s, and trained and all the rest of it. This build them instead – and we don’t I wanted to get a guitar as soon as year, which will be the last one, we’re throw televisions through windows I heard bands like The Beatles, hoping to have raised £1 million. because we like to watch Countdown. Rolling Stones and particularly Some of the stars of the property I’m really looking forward to the The Kinks. I got a guitar at the age industry are not necessarily stars on Marylebone Summer Fayre this year. of 11, and have played ever since. stage, but some are very good, and it’s It’s a great big street party really, and My first real gig at the end of always a great night. it’s lovely to see the coming together Shanklin Pier on the Isle of Wight We’ve done all manner of different of all the people who are associated when I was 14. It wasn’t a difficult gig gigs. Trips to the south of France with Marylebone. It is a wonderful to get, because the drummer’s father to play at MIPIM, the international local event. Marylebone has real owned the pier. There were probably property conference in Cannes, character and is a great place to two or three people there. and last year we played Ascot. We wander around. And it doesn’t smack I suppose what I like is rhythmic had a spate of playing at various you in the eye. It just sidles up to you music made with real instruments. London hotels – Claridge’s, Café and takes you by the arm. 11—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL ADVERTISING

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Clare Finney, distressed by her disturbing lack of basic practical skills, joins a sewing class in Marylebone and discovers a brand new passion among the old-fashioned needles and thread

Of all the disappointments that come when I realised how frustrating the woman who greets us for our with leaving home these days – the knitting could be. In the process Introduction to Patchwork class flies cost of putting the heating on, or I became more convinced than ever in the face of almost every craft-based the pain of Ikea – perhaps the most that such tiresome occupations expectation going. She is young. crushing is the realisation that for were far better left to Mrs Marks, She is vivacious. And she is wearing all your education and so-called Mrs Spencer and my grandma. the most covetable skirt. ‘experience’ you have absolutely no Initially I saw little reason to “Is that homemade?” I blurt, practical skills. Oh you’ve degrees change. Clothes and blankets are disbelievingly, before we have alright, and internships and piano available two a penny these days, and even sat down. Jane’s answer comes grades. You’ve even helped some even so-called handmade looking as a welcome surprise. “God, no. African children build a school. items can be bought at a price. I’m not that patient! Making dresses But cleaning? DIY? Cooking Yet as the pile of unwanted gloves and skirts is really hard. It’s a very anything more complicated than and scarves in my wardrobe mounted skilled job and it demands you use a pizza? Only now you’ve flown the and the ‘things to be mended’ box sewing machine” – something which comfort of the nest do you realise began to overflow, I realised it wasn’t Jane tries to avoid when dealing such things are important – and that just the skills we lost when they took with novices like myself. Instead mastering them has passed you by. needlework off the curriculum. Jane tends to focus on the simple For me it was sewing that It was our appreciation of them, too. stuff: purses, small toys, gloves, bits precipitated this crisis of self. Born During my Google search for and bobs which can be constructed into a generation two steps removed enlightenment I come across Tea & without the need for technology. from school sewing classes, by the Crafting, a series of workshops based “There’s definitely a fear factor. time I was 18 my knowledge of in Marylebone and run by a lady People who are never taught how to needlework was confined to one named Jane. In my mind Jane will be hand sew think it all involves a sewing scarf, originally intended for mother a quiet, greying matron with knitting machine – something they either dear and rapidly downsized to teddy needles as hair pins. In reality, don’t want to use or don’t have the 13—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES 14—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES

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money to obtain.” So saying she takes lectures to answer emails. And sleep.” expectant mothers looking to shower us through to our ‘workshop’ for the Ultimately she loved teaching their babies with patchwork quilts. evening: a warm, comforting lounge craft so much she quit her day job to “At the end everyone stitches their that’s been transformed by means support it – having first persuaded piece of quilt together to make one of sewing kits, a Cath Kidston table herself of her ability by teaching her big one for the baby,” she smiles. cloth, and what look suspiciously boyfriend to knit. “I thought if I was “It’s lovely.” like homemade muffins. suddenly teaching eight people it With that heart warming thought For a moment I’m thrown, could be overwhelming, so I tested I return to my own mini patchwork convinced once more I’m in the my lessons on Gavin. He made a quilt, a rough and ready affair which presence of an all-baking, all-making scarf, so I thought I could definitely – with its odd ends of sellotape, domestic goddess. It’s with some give lessons to just about anyone.” scraps of paper and fabric – looks relief that I’m told they came fresh Even so Jane still has to work not unlike the inside of my oldest from the supermarket, not Jane’s two days a week and live cheaply to coat pocket. The method behind the oven. She might be a dab hand at support herself – a feat which, with paper template madness, I’m told, making and mending, but she’s as a wedding and a house move to plan is that it is actually much easier than pushed for time as you and me. as well, makes for a very mortal tacking. This I can believe, having A secretary by day, Jane set up 21st century juggler. once tacked my dress to my knickers Tea & Crafting at almost exactly Fast forward a year and it is this while trying to shorten it – yet I’m the same time as embarking on a very normalness that makes Jane’s frustrated to find that even paper can Human Resources evening course. Tea & Crafting so popular. Her prove problematic for my patchwork. “I was studying for my masters as well clients include everyone from Conde “Does it matter if you’ve sewn as running this, so I ended up using Nast teams on away days (“I’m still the sellotape to the material?” I ask, holding out for them to put me in when I’ve finally managed to lace LINKS Vogue”) to the lovely old lady who is two squares together. Jane smiles going into hospital for a long time and shakes her head. “It will come Tea & Crafting and wants a hobby to occupy her off eventually. Besides, that bit of the 07734 660 565 while she’s there. Jane’s classes are quilt is the back” she assures me as teaandcrafting.co.uk a popular choice among brides to I pick up my needle once more. be who want more from their hen It’s tempting to assume Jane comes parties than hangovers, and among from a long line of seamstresses – I tend 15—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES

to blame my mother for my lack of craft more about the satisfaction than skills - yet a glance at the craft-manual anything else.” lined bookshelves tell a different story. Part of that satisfaction lies in Jane is entirely self-taught. the fruits of your labour – after all, “I taught myself how to crochet nothing gets through like a gift and knit when I was eight. Then you’ve made yourself. Yet for Jane I fancied jewellery making when I and the rest of her industrious got older. I don’t have a natural ability clients, the rewards run much deeper to do netball, say, but I do seem to than homemade glove puppets. One be able to pick up crafts quite easily”. lady Jane tells us about was referred ‘Does it matter if you’ve sewn It’s been an expensive occupation: by her psychologist to try knitting for the sellotape to the material?’ good materials don’t come cheap, relaxation. Another came with her and craft fairs and markets are like daughter when she asked for help I ask, when I’ve finally honey traps to one so minded. While with a school sewing project, and managed to lace two squares these days Jane can look up patterns she realised she didn’t know where together. Jane smiles and and instructions online, she is at the to start. Yet while there are as many shakes her head. ‘It will come same time painfully aware that make reasons to try Tea & Crafting as there do and mend doesn’t always add up are classes to choose from (and I off eventually. And besides, to a saving. “Before you know it you’re counted six on the knitting section that bit of the quilt is the back’ spending £200 on jewellery making alone), it’s only as I tie the final knot equipment – then with patchwork in my patchwork ‘quilt’ that I discover there’s all the material you end up the common thread. buying,” she confesses. “Sometimes It’s only two squares by two I struggle to tell myself to stop.” squares, it wouldn’t cover a mouse, The secret, she says, is to see and it’s like a badly wrapped present crafting as a means of enjoyment and at the back. But as I reflect on the fun relaxation first, and any savings you and the skills I’ve picked up in the make as a bonus. “I always say in my past two hours, I find I don’t much class, it’s all very well to say DIY saves mind about the end result. It’s the money, but this stuff isn’t cheap. It’s doing it myself that counts. 16—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL BIG INTERvIEW

jewry service Jackie Modlinger meets the human dynamo that is Baroness Julia Neuberger, the charismatic senior rabbi who has recently returned to her spiritual home at the

Dame, baroness, senior rabbi, public at the University of Warwick. She paternal grandmother, Anna, who servant, teacher, writer, wife, mother will, however, continue to sit on the chaired the welfare committee of the and philanthropist – despite the crossbenches in the Lords. God Refugee Council. Her British-born absence of a cape, I think I may have forbid she have a rest. father was a civil servant, her mother finally met Superwoman. For Julia, her recent appointment a refugee who arrived in Britain Julia Neuberger is just back from as the synagogue’s senior rabbi marks from Nazi Germany in 1937, aged 22, a weekend in Israel, where she has something of a homecoming. “My and who, as Julia puts it, “felt solidly, been celebrating her aunt’s 90th parents, my father’s elder brother and ethnically Jewish, but very rarely birthday, when I catch up with her sister-in-law were all members here,” came to synagogue”. for a precious one-hour slot in her she says. “It is the congregation that I Julia’s father became an ardent hectic schedule. Our interview is grew up in and it feels like home. My Zionist in the 1930s. “He went to sandwiched between a morning father was a warden here and taught Israel, was involved in Habonim at her office at the West London at the religion school. Monty Moss, [a Zionist youth movement], Synagogue in Marylebone and an of Moss Bros, equipped him with his became a Reform Jew in Palestine. afternoon at The , morning dress for 30 quid. I teased He went with Abba Eban, Walter where she acts as a Liberal Democrat Monty with that in my first sermon.” Ettinghausen, Teddy Kollek whip, a position she will relinquish Julia grew up in Belsize Park, [erstwhile Mayor of New York]. He in September, when her husband north London, the only child of didn’t get his degree at Cambridge Anthony also steps down as head of Walter and Liesel (Alice) Schwab. because, as an ardent Zionist, he left department and professor of finance The couple met through Julia’s before he finished, returning to help 17—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES 18—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES

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his mother Anna with refugees.” Walter would make sure that his daughter finished her degree. At home, the family’s German roots remained apparent. “There was a lot of German spoken,” says Julia. “They spoke it when they didn’t want me to understand. I learned a bit, though. My maternal grandmother, who lived in Wimbledon, never learned very good English and we saw a lot of her, went to Wimbledon for lunch with her nearly every Sunday and to the Schwab grandmother on a Friday night.” Did Julia’s family history shape her future to some degree? “I think it must have done,” she concedes. “I certainly think that I have been more allied to refugee and asylum issues as a result of my childhood. We have a small family charity, The Schwab Trust, which helps young refugees and asylum seekers with education, which is what people did for my mum.” There were other more physical manifestations of her mother’s erstwhile refugee status. “After my mother died aged 86, it took forever to clear their home. Being a refugee in some cases makes you cling on to your belongings. My mother never threw anything away between 1938

and 2001 – there were 1,200 works Images: Ben Coster of art and 12,000 books, Schiller and Goethe in Gothic script that you I remember going to Dickins & Jones – I think about becoming a rabbi. couldn’t give away. The next owners I had to have a new blazer and it was a He asked me to come to had to replace the floor!” major, major expenditure.” College, Europe’s largest Jewish Family finances were tight when Julia read Assyriology (Babylonian Progressive University and Rabbinic Julia was a child, studying at South and Hebrew) at Newnham College, one day a week for my last Hampstead High. “My father did College Cambridge (“I am a failed year at university. I came as a student about four jobs in order to pay for archaeologist,” she says with a grin), and spent four years there.” my education, which was part of his and it was here that she met her She insists that she wasn’t actually very considerable ambition,” she future husband, Anthony Neuberger. particularly religious – “It was much remembers. “Until 1960, there was very “I was 21, he must have been 20; more an academic interest,” she says little money about, then compensation we married at 23 and 21 and we – and at first she was concerned about came from Germany and my father have been married for 37 years,” whether being a rabbi would prove was promoted in the Civil Service, and she says proudly. The couple have sufficiently academically rigorous things became noticeably easier. My two children – daughter Harriet, for her. At Leo Baeck, she found a father stopped worrying and doing a psychiatric social worker and son mentor in , a familiar the pools on Saturday night. I got new Matthew, a civil servant like his fixture on Radio 4’s Moral Maze clothes, whereas when I was little, it was grandfather. who would himself serve for just hand-me-downs from the cousins. Becoming a rabbi was almost 32 years as senior rabbi of the West I was always wearing school uniform entirely accidental. “I think that it was London Synagogue before his death two patterns out of date. It still rankles. who suggested in 1996. “I knew him well and he had 19—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FEATURES

work harder to prove herself? positive. It is quite fashionable to “I really can’t tell,” she says. “I am be Jewish.” by nature a workaholic. My paternal While Judaism can be something grandmother was quite a tough nut. of a an awesome religion in its All my grandparents were German discipline, one of the key elements Jews, and they were all and that Neuberger brings to her bankers. One generation made it congregation is a wonderful, natural and one generation spent it.” sense of humour. And then there’s At the South London Liberal that workaholic drive and energy, Synagogue, where she served between that commitment to making things I couldn’t give a stuff about 1977 and 1989, Julia became the happen. She is already making her having three female rabbis first female rabbi to run her own presence felt with certain innovations synagogue. She became chair of and ideas. “I want to up the game,” here. What difference does Camden and Islington Community she says. “I want it to be possible for it make once you accept that Health Services NHS Trust in 1992, every kind of Jew to find something you can have both male worked as chief executive of the King’s here that engages them, that means and female rabbis? Would Fund from 1997 to 2004, and was something to their lives. I love the chancellor of the University of Ulster fact that we have two young rabbis anyone comment if there from 1994 to 2000. Neuberger was here, and we do things like our Torah were three male rabbis? made a dame in the 2003 New Year on Tap sessions at the pub. I’d like to We do not discriminate Honours, then in June of the following see Friday night dinners like those year she became a life peer as Baroness at the Saatchi’s Shul (synagogue). Neuberger of Primrose Hill in the I want to have a drop-in centre for London Borough of Camden. refugees, like they have at New North Her recent appointment as senior London Synagogue. I want to get rabbi in Marylebone marks her people doing things. A synagogue return to full-time congregational shouldn’t just be a place for the rabbis life, and she is hugely excited by the to spout.” future. “It is the leading non-orthodox At the age of 61, Neuberger congregation in London, and I think accepts that this job will probably be that it could be brilliant. There’s lots to her last, but that doesn’t mean that do here. There are some terrific young she is slowing down. “I have no desire people and some very feisty older ones, to retire,” she insists. “I think that we have a great team of rabbis and I’d be a nightmare for everybody else. some good stuff going on.” I like change.” officiated at our wedding in 1973 How does she feel about there being “To lead a big congregation, together with , rabbi of three female rabbis at her synagogue? you need a lot of energy,” she says. Wimbledon, who had been very good “Couldn’t give a stuff,” she says, bluntly. And that is something that Rabbi to our grandparents. One of the last “What difference does it make once Julia still has in spades. The annual funerals Hugo did was my father’s,” you accept that you can have both male Ha’Atzmaut Oneg Shabbat – a says Julia. and female rabbis? Would anyone celebration of the foundation of the I first met Julia just after she was comment if there were three male state of Israel in 1948 – is one of the ordained as a rabbi aged just 27, rabbis? We do not discriminate.” highlights of the synagogue’s social when she was a carefree young thing Neuberger feels “positive” about calendar. Held on 7th May, the event who rode a sit-up-and-beg bicycle. the future of Judaism. “It will look saw our new senior rabbi let her hair “I ordained with Danny Smith who different, but positive. We have got down and take to the floor in her was with me at Leo Baeck. When they to get our act together but it will be gym shoes, joining the circle of Israeli presented us with our certificates, his dancing. As we bade her goodnight, had a pink ribbon and mine a blue LINKS congratulating her on the success of ribbon,” she chortles. the well-over -subscribed event, she As only the second female rabbi West London Synagogue promised: “I’ll have them dancing to be ordained in Britain, following 33 Seymour Place round the synagogue soon. hot on the heels of fellow Leo 020 7723 4404 We’ll have it like Upper West Side Baeck alumnus , does wls.org.uk yet, even if it kills me.” Neuberger feel that she has had to The journey goes on. 20—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE the man with the golden touch 21—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE the man with the golden touch 22—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE tHE MAN WItH tHE GOLdEN tOUcH

Every few years the Wallace Collection appoints an associate artist – someone to study the collections and then exhibit work that takes its cue from them. This year, it is Dr Kevin Coates, the pioneering goldsmith whose work has graced everywhere from cathedrals to Downing Street. Clare Finney pays him a visit

Like most journalists, I find it tempting to generalise artists – to wrap them up in 800 words of labels and cliché. Kevin coates, however, eludes every neat category I have. Neither musician, nor goldsmith, nor mathematician, the Wallace collection’s latest associate artist is all these things and much more – as his new exhibition, time Regained, plainly shows. We meet at his home, a picturesque townhouse perched daintily atop the leafy heights of Primrose Hill. the inside is startling: Persian rugs, antique mirrors, and Greek pottery geometrical systems used in designing a concert to his Mistress by Vanloo,” make a museum out of the front instruments. I’ve written about those he explains. “In the painting we hall, while the miniature portraits quite a bit and I employ them in my can identify the harpsichordist as a on the staircase wouldn’t look out work – because I believe there is an famous singer of the time, and that of place in the National. Yet these unheard music in mathematics.” she is playing Si, caro, Si – an aria treasures, though beautiful, pale into By “quite a bit” Kevin means about misunderstandings between a insignificance next to the Aladdin’s an entire book: he’s a doctor of married couple.” Extensive research cave that is the coates’ music room. philosophy, and his thesis was based revealed this lady was actually Yes, music room: the elegant on this subject. Yet while maths and married to the painter; even closer abode of not just an 18th century music are both central to Kevin’s scrutiny suggested that, lurking in piano, but also a host of lutes and aesthetic, what I really want to know is the shadows, is a self-portrait of the mandolins, a 17th century violin and how they help him to transform some painter looking on. And Kevin’s a harpsichord put together by Kevin of the greatest items in the Wallace own interpretation, a small brooch himself. It was this harpsichord that collection into gold. in a wall mount, “deals with the led him to his musician wife, Nel, to demonstrate, Kevin picks relationship, their misunderstanding, who played it in its debut concert at up a finely painted box – an ironic and its resolution in music”. Wigmore Hall. they’ve been living starting point for a man who to describe this process, Kevin – and playing – together ever since, metaphorically avoids boxes, but one labels his creations Penumbrae, she on the harpsichord and he on whose influence quickly becomes meaning the “outer shadows”. these one of the many Baroque string clear. “this box was made in 1790, are cast “not just by the thing, but by all instruments he adores. and it’s decoration was inspired by the people who have viewed it”, so at Yet it was also through this the painting the Grand turk Giving the centre there’s the painting, outside instrument that Kevin deepened his that is interpretation – “all those other understanding of the relationship LINKS people who have owned the painting between music and his third great or looked at it” – and on the edge is love, mathematics. Time Regained Kevin, collating and translating all “I have quite an intense 23 June – 25 September these ideas via his understanding, relationship with design geometrics” The Wallace Collection his research and his gold. he smiles, “and there is a particular Manchester Square “I think that all creation is, like musical beauty in the harmonies wallacecollection.org you’re doing now, an analysis of the you find when you look at the component information – which 23—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

It is the people in the objects who matter to me – the people, who have seen it or made it or held it in their hands. You can feel those forces

is why we’re talking – and then a mentioning. Yet Kevin believes were they going, and why were they synthesis, which will be your writing.” moments like this are what make art here? this sense of immediacy, of Flattered, I protest that his golden “a synthesis of what the world has or is connection to the past is universal – wonders are in a very different league saying.” the title, time Regained, is and it is the touchstone of Kevin’s work. to this article. Nevertheless Kevin a reference to Proust, whose writings “It is the people in the objects who kindly insists “it is the same process”. on time Kevin has always admired. matter to me – the people, who have “What was Vanloo’s purpose in Used here it refers to the process seen it or made it or held it in their making this painting?” he asks. of transmutation, from a specific hands. You can feel those forces – “What do other interpretations moment – a music performance, they have clues to find and each one add, like this box? I came away with a paint stroke – to the memory of is a book, there to decipher.” the thought that it is actually about the audience. Yet long before this Whether it’s the “exquisite” horse two senses – her’s of listening, his of exhibition Kevin was obsessed with armour whose original use Kevin looking. I found out that in Europe at the slippery subject of time. finds “so deeply upsetting”, or his own the time they were known for that.” “It is fundamental to what I do,” 17th century violin, which “could have And from these ideas he created he says, “time, and its passing, and been played by Mozart – one of its Penumbra 2 (not illustrated). the people,” like the thumbprint owners was a great friend of his”, each Paintings are just one source of of Poussin in A dance to the Music object Kevin touches finds its self and inspiration for Kevin, whose work of time. “that painting has been its history in the art Kevin creates. draws on everything from the Wallace inspiring me long before I was asked “Only connect” is his motto – but collection’s armour to its furniture. to be associate artist, where you can EM Forster’s great epithet could also Another brooch, inspired by a Boulle see where Poussin has pressed his be said to be the Wallace collection’s cabinet, came about when Kevin thumb down into the wet primer. raison d’etre. “We have this fear that found a cricket in its marquetry. Upon It’s a moment in time, but it’s one art in the Wallace is somehow elitist, arriving back home he found another which has lasted centuries. I find because it was commissioned by a cricket – alive this time, and living that incredibly moving.” high stratum of society. Well that’s under his porch. the ‘cricket’s eyes’ He’s not the only one – after all, it’s true – they were – but those material idea for the jewel, Monsieur Boulle’s a stony sort of person who can’t find a values are false ones. the true values Vistor (Penumbra 11), was born. secret thrill in an original manuscript, are the same for us all. It is the objects to most of us this coincidence or a set of really worn stairs. Who themselves that matter, and the ideas would be just that – a coincidence, has been here, we ask ourselves, and that they awaken in our soul – and we so insignificant as to not be worth put their foot where mine is? Where haven’t had to pay anything for that.” 24—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

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Shannon Denny meets Danielle Eubank, close relationship with water, and of the 20,000 mile voyage started the American painter whose paintings course water is a very important topic in Syria in August 2008, continued of water from her epic adventure in california. It’s always on people’s through the Suez canal, around the circumnavigating Africa in an ancient minds.” In spite of its extensive cape of Good Hope, through the vessel are showing in Marylebone coastline, shortages are common Straits of Gibraltar, and ended back throughout the state, so residents in Syria in October 2010. Danielle’s Water is a handy substance made get plenty of experience in water role was similar to that of an artist in from two parts hydrogen and one rationing. “talking about water, residence, although the residence in part oxygen. It covers well over half conservation and the environment question was in constant motion. the Earth’s surface and a human is permanently ingrained in the the capacity of the boat was body needs around two litres of the culture where I’m from.” about 16, but at any given time there stuff per day. When the summer She’s enjoyed an exceptional were around a dozen individuals skies open up to dump quantities opportunity to appreciate the stuff on board. Danielle’s tours of duty of raindrops on us unsuspecting at close range over the past two years, lasted about three weeks at a stretch, Londoners, it’s easy to forget that in having served as expedition artist and in addition to recording and some parts of the world this life- for an unusual sea voyage. Inspired visually describing the journey she giving liquid – especially the clean, by the claim of the ancient Greek also served as crew member and fresh kind – is in notably short supply. historian Herodotus that a group of adhered to the shift system of four For LA-based artist Danielle Phoenician mariners were the first to hours on, four hours off, four hours Eubank, though, water is constantly achieve a circumnavigation of Africa on, six hours off and six hours on. in the thoughts. Known for her in 600Bc, former British Royal Navy At the outset, the list of potential contemplative waterscapes, Danielle officer Philip Beale set out to recreate challenges ranged from piracy in the says her affinity is thanks to a their sailing vessel and journey. As notorious Gulf of Aden to rough seas california upbringing. “I grew up captain of Phoenicia, he invited along the devastating Skeleton coast, on the coast, so I’ve always had a very Danielle to join the adventure. not to mention day-to-day trials like 25—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

seasickness, the absence of loos and to her LA studio with these records a lack of refrigeration. “I like to think to complete canvases measuring of it as camping with 11 other people up to five feet by six feet in order to that you don’t know – and you’re capture the personality of the water not allowed to leave the campsite,” she observed off the shores of Syria, she laughs. “I find it immensely Mozambique, South Africa, Gibraltar enjoyable.” and tunisia, including the Indian Danielle also had to navigate the Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. tricky question of how to actually For anyone who has tried to accomplish her job as an artist while artistically depict a fixed object while at sea. “I tried painting on the boat, working on dry land, you can only but it proved to be technically and imagine the difficulty in Danielle’s physically impossible,” she says. unique line of work. “You’re on a “canvas is essentially sailcloth, so if moving object trying to capture you’re sitting on the foredeck with a another moving object,” she affirms. big sail in your lap, that doesn’t work “You’re tilting and yawing as well. LINKS so well on a sailboat. And the second there’s a lot of movement going on. thing is it’s quite narrow and people It isn’t like modern boats or gigantic Danielle Eubank: Phoenicia are walking around everywhere, yachts where you’re cutting through 6 – 24 July so I was very conscious of being in the water. It’s more like rocking Thompson’s Gallery people’s way with tubes of cobalt blue in your mother’s arms while she’s 15 New Cavendish Street and things.” skipping rope!” she laughs. 020 7935 3595 constant sketching and taking Nevertheless, the artist seems thompsonsgallery.co.uk “a million photos” became Danielle’s to have handled all these obstacles onboard method. She then returned with abundant skill. “Her paintings 26—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

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vividly and colourfully bring to life in interpreting water, it is only been I turned around. And the very first the extraordinary story of this voyage in the last decade that Danielle has picture just had this little corner of – in a way that the written word embraced it as a focus for her artistic water in it. then the next one had a simply cannot,” says captain Beale. attentions. What took her so long to little more water, and then the next one “the artwork that she has produced come around to tackling a subject had a little more. Pretty soon, they were is critical to this project, because she so clearly loves? “Growing up on all water.” it allows viewers to participate in the seaside I was exposed to a lot of the body of work from Phoenicia the voyage and experience the pictures of water – crashing waves, re-imagines the ripples, reflections, travel themselves through her dolphins – that I couldn’t relate to,” bouncing colours, shifting light and interpretation of the water that she explains. “Also painting water is liquid movement of the epic journey, surrounded us every day.” really, really difficult. It’s really hard inviting the eye to dive in. Without It’s not the first time Danielle has to paint water that has any kind of setting foot on a 6th century sailing risen to Beale’s challenge. She also atmosphere, emotion or motion.” ship, the viewer can get a glimpse of acted as expedition artist on his A trip in 2001 shifted her thinking how tunisian or Syrian seas might 2003 trip covering the 16,000 miles toward the possibilities of the wet stuff. appear. “It’s something that all humans from Indonesia to the Seychelles to “My friend and I travelled around for a have in common,” Danielle says. “We Madagascar to the cape of Good year. At one point we found ourselves all need water and we all need to look Hope to Ghana. that expedition in La Doñana in Spain. It’s a very, very after our resources, so it’s something proved that such a journey would have protected park so you’re not allowed to that everyone can relate to.” Now that been possible for traditionally built go a certain number of metres inland this expedition is finished and the double outrigger vessels dating back from the water,” she remembers. “So I art has gone on show, does she have to the early 8th century, as depicted at spent all my time sitting on the beach further waterborne adventures in the Borobudur temple in Indonesia. with my back to the beautiful ocean her sights? “Oh definitely! Are you While the two adventures painting the dunes! But after several kidding? Absolutely, I can’t wait. illustrate that she is now a virtuoso days of this I got really bored, and Watch this space.” The private bank for historic motor racing Proud sponsors of: Le Mans Classic; Classic Endurance Racing; Dix Mille Tours; Spa Classic; Pau Historique; Donington Historic Festival; RAC Woodcote Trophy; London to Brighton Run; Gstaad Classic; DolderClassics.

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Accordian Maestro (left) and Kerela Waterway by Frazer Price given us the chance to work with the students, which is great fun. In 2009 we showed in the fashion school on Paddington Street, which was a really nice space. then last year they told us that the ceiling needed repairing in that building, so could we put up with the main hall on Marylebone High Street instead? It was amazing. You could not beg, borrow or steal a location as good. the last day of the exhibition coincided with the summer fayre, and the place was packed. that was the final piece of the jigsaw really – the perfect way of getting local people through the doors. I took over as chair of Art in Marylebone two years ago, after Richard and Gemma moved to Portugal. My first thought was that whose work was shown there. It was while the exhibition was an open OPEN ARt a beautiful venue, the timing was show, it was only really open if you perfect, and we got some great press. were a painter or sculptor, which is a SURGERY It was a fantastic social event, and the hell of a limitation. When I worked Marylebone Association gathered at Newsweek in the 1970s we had a Frazer Price, a talented painter and the a really big crowd. they looked feature called A Day in the Life, with chair of Art in Marylebone, gives the at everything, drank everything, the best images from around the world lowdown on this remarkable local arts ate everything. they didn’t buy on a particular day. I pinched the idea organisation’s annual exhibition everything, but you can’t have it all. for A Day in the Life of Marylebone. the second year, we ended up at We ask people to go out and take the fifth annual Art in Marylebone the old library on Marylebone Road. pictures of the area on St George’s Day exhibition takes place over 16th-19th It was a real challenge, as although each year, and the best 50 shots are June. Visitors to the summer fayre will it’s a magnificent building we weren’t shown at the exhibition. It has opened be able to drop into the American allowed to move anything around up Art in Marylebone to anyone Intercontinental University on the inside. We had to hang things off with a camera. this year we are also high street and see the work of dozens the book shelves, which didn’t always running a selection of paintings of of talented artists and photographers, work too well. there was an old Marylebone, and we’ll be judging the all of whom live or work in this hugely sign in the corner saying ‘drinking best one through a public vote. the creative area of London. too much will give you a headache, show is being officially closed this year the idea for Art in Marylebone took and please don’t remove your by Dame Rosalind Savill, the director off some five or six years ago. Getting clothes’. Hilarious. that wasn’t put of the Wallace collection, which is it off the ground was hard work – it all up as art, but it might have won the a great honour. It is hard to think of happened on a wing and a prayer. It competition if it had been. another individual who has done began with Gemma Detti, a local artist that year the competition featured more to enhance the artistic life of the who produced large architectural 25 artists, and it has been growing ever area – and that, after all, is what Art in paintings. Her husband, Richard since. It is an open show, meaning that Marylebone is all about. Harris, approached the Marylebone anyone can submit work – it is a proper Association to ask for backing for a community event, open to anybody. LINKS group show of local artists, including that makes curating it a challenge, but Gemma. the association liked the it’s a sacrifice worth making. Art in Marylebone idea, and Art in Marylebone was born. For the past two years the exhibition 16 – 19 June Amazingly, the association has been hosted by the American American Intercontinental University managed to get us the old fire station Intercontinental University. their 110 Marylebone High Street on chiltern Street as a venue for that involvement has given it some real artinmarylebone.org first exhibition. there were five of us texture and substance. It has also 29—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

Artist Profile Tribute to Royal Love, by Stephen B Whatley

PHILIP SHORt OF ThE CoLomB ART GALLERy INtRODUcES US tO tHE cOLOURFUL PAINtINGS OF StEPHEN B WHAtLEY

Who is Stephen B Whatley? frames, angles and shades to provide this often be said that to create a niche without If you haven’t heard about him yet, the distinct effect. Stephen certainly paints being esoteric is an important balance that chances are you will soon. Over the from the heart and with passion, and few can achieve. Stephen certainly strikes past 20 years his work has caught the empathy is a crucial part of understanding a pose somewhere between popular and attention of the global press, celebrities unknown truths about the subject. There personal. His paintings are a labour of and the Queen. His paintings permanently is certainly an intense emotional and love and his uplifting palette a welcome reside within the Tower of London and spiritual connection that drives him. addition to The Colomb Art Gallery. are reproduced on panels throughout the Tower Hill underpass. In 2004, 30 of his How did The Colomb Art Gallery come Tell us about his forthcoming exhibition. paintings were exhibited in the Tower’s across Stephen? His oil paintings on canvas will be exhibited banqueting hall. Stephen’s portrait sitters We’d been aware of Stephen’s work at the Summer Exhibition 2011 starting include such national treasures as Dame for some time and were keen to know Friday 17th June. His works will be among Judi Dench, Barbara Windsor, Julie Walters more. Initially he showed us examples a selection of 15 artists represented by and Sir Ian McKellen. Across the Atlantic, of his architectural pieces, still lives and The Colomb Art Gallery and York Fine Arts. his paintings, notably his portrait of Barack portraiture. It often takes up to 12 months Also on display will be paintings from the Obama, have featured in Time Magazine from confirmation to having artwork in an abstract cityscape artist Annie Ralli; works with his tribute to Elizabeth Taylor recently exhibition, but after seeing the paintings from the realist still life painter Marie documented by CNN. we pushed the process forward and now Louise Wrightson; sculpture from award feature these in our forthcoming spring winning wildlife artist Adam Binder; and Describe his work. and summer shows. complex botanical watercolours from the Stephen’s paintings are bold and certainly remarkable self taught artist Jerry Walton. memorable, with a fundamentally What is it about his work that appeals to you? expressionist style. Like all great We pride ourselves on variety and Stephen B Whatley expressionists, he paints subjectively, quality of art works. Each of our artists stephenbwhatley.com distorting reality for an emotional rather has been chosen for their uniqueness than a physical truth. Beyond the dramatic and prominence in their particular The Colomb Art Gallery lines and vibrant colours are subtle layers style or method – Stephen’s paintings 52a George Street and perspectives – he works from collages undoubtedly stand distinct among our 020 7487 5118 of photographs taken from different time- other exhibited artworks. With artists it can colombart.co.uk 30—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE cULtURE IN BRIEF

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13 auctioned off to paying guests, with all HARES AND proceeds going to charity. the Hare Styling appeal GRAcES began with Angelica Van clarke, the daughter of top Marylebone 216 canvases, 216 very different hairdresser Michael Van clarke, who perspectives. the Hare Styling underwent a life saving operation at exhibition, recently shown at the Great Ormond Street Hospital when Heartbreak Gallery, featured work just two days old; now in her teens, by celebrities from cheryl cole to she and her dad managed to rally Alastair campbell, as well as a range a mind-blowing rollcall of talent to of people from the creative industries. help raise money for the hospital. It Featuring cute hares, colourful was Angelica’s drawing of a hare that hares and frankly quite disturbing was used as the inspiration by the hares, the exhibition culminated high profile contributors. in the charmingly titled Hare Ball the campaign has been a huge – a glamour-soaked evening at the success, with the funds raised going Dorchester, at which canvasses were towards two new operating theatres. 31—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL cULtURE

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like everyone else in the western with a playwright, who escapes the hemisphere, regardless of gender, office she hates after his intervention age, or (in my case) possession of but finds herself increasingly unable a television, I am obsessed with to wrestle her demons. April is Mad Men. (there’s nothing that beautiful but naïve, new to the city, expresses devotion to a series like craving romance and marriage but watching entire seasons curled disappointed and confused by her up uncomfortably in front of your repeated attempts to find it. At 22 housemate’s computer). therefore Barbara is already divorced with a when I say that rona Jaffe’s beloved infant daughter. She lives scandalous 1958 account of single with her mother and dreams of office girls in New York – a book that another relationship – but is stymied devotees may recall Don and Betty both by her life situation and her discussing in Season 1 – is almost feelings for a married man. as good as the series that prompted Despite its period setting, many its reissue, you will I hope recognise of the novel’s themes are timeless. what an accolade this is. And it’s only What makes a lasting relationship? “almost” because you can’t see Jon How can you tell when to trust? What Hamm’s eyebrows. is love anyway, and can one combine Written with a subtle intelligence it with a family and a career? What and perception that in no way about desire and its consequences, mitigates its honesty, the Best of particularly in a culture where sexual everything offers both an absorbing transgression is policed much more Sexual harassment is a given, narrative of human connections strictly for women? but nobody talks about sex, and a vivid evocation of a different Jaffe is unfailingly emotionally world where sexual harassment is a articulate; able to differentiate and and a new generation of given (and unmarried pregnancy a develop relationships and reactions independent and educated scandal) but nobody talks about sex, with thoughtful precision. the girls have the opportunity to and a new generation of independent Best of everything is immediately, seek both professional success and educated girls have the powerfully believable. Its everyday opportunity to seek both professional details – the cocktail bars, little suits, and personal happiness success and personal happiness, and face powder and casual misogyny are determined to do so. – simply add to its immersive quality, the novel centres on four providing escapism as well as acuity. women taken into the typing pool Despite the hypocritical culture ALL REVIEWED TITLES of Fabian Publications in January, with which they struggle, the bonds AVAILABLE FROM DAUNT 1952. caroline Bender is a college that develop between the girls are graduate seeking to escape her affirmative and supportive, and their Daunt Books fiance’s recent betrayal by burying dedication to each other throughout 83 Marylebone High Street herself in a fulfilling job, and soon the vagaries of love and betrayal is 020 7224 2295 begins to work her way up towards heartwarming. Whether read as dauntbooks.co.uk an editorship despite romantic period drama, incisive commentary complications. Gregg, later or simply compulsively readable caroline’s roommate, is an out-of- fiction,t he Best of everything does work actress embroiled in an affair everything it says on the tin. 33—MArYleBONe JOurNAl culture

Grace Williams Says It Loud for the odds stacked against them – their by emma Henderson confinement, the disdain and disgust of Sceptre, £19.99 doctors who dismiss them as “ghastly, animal, monstrous”, the imposition of violent and degrading punishments (the Grace Williams, born in 1947, is “spastic” scene where Grace “licks the shit from the and the victim of polio. Consigned at the nurses’ toilet” is a particular horror). age of 11 to the Briar Mental Institute with Nevertheless their relationship moves “mangled face”, useless arm, club foot deftly from childhood companions to and the confused conviction of her own teenage sweethearts to adult lovers with imperfection, she doesn’t see the world tenderness, the complications of sexuality like other people. On her first day, however, and closeness under such circumstances she meets Daniel Smith: an epileptic with delineated with a raw honesty and no arms who types with his feet, talks like occasional brutality that reflects both their Oscar Wilde, and doesn’t see the world off-kilter worldviews and the sore reality of like other people either. Despite deaths, their lives. It’s vivid, sometimes painful and accidents and separation, there blossoms frequently disturbing, but at the same time between the two a passionate and offers powerful testimony to the capacity touching love affair, all the more moving of the human heart.

The Lessons back, binding them into a dangerous web by Naomi Alderman of secrecy, passion and betrayal. Penguin, £12.99 Poised between Brideshead Revisited and The Secret History, Alderman swoops seamlessly between sensitive explorations The Lessons is an Oxford novel – a love of relationships and sardonic caricatures letter in poison pen, a poignant tribute of the uncaring absurdity of certain to oak panelling, the hedonistic glory of universities. Both James’s ostentatious golden youth and biting satire. Its narrator sister (now “Assistant Deputy Vice-chair James Scaife begins his undergraduacy a of an important committee tasked with typical high-achiever – only to have dreams investigating soya beans”) and university of scholarship and running Blue shattered fellows are caricatured with a humour that by a fall on the ice. As he recovers, that doesn’t quite disguise his genuine criticism quintessential Oxbridge combination of of a world where tutors refuse to help with continual pressure, neurotic contemporaries work missed through injury, but happily and tutors who respond to imperfection with bed their charges. That said, Alderman’s accusations of bringing the good name of the evocation of the hazy utopia of remembered college into disrepute leaves him struggling. youth is powerful enough to counterbalance When he meets the soothing and sympathetic Mark’s ability to “list for us in alphabetical Jess, however, he is soon drawn into her close order all the members of the Bullingdon circle of friends – studious Franny, political Club he’d ever snogged”, and prevents the Simon, inscrutable Emanuella and the novel from losing its poignancy. novel’s antihero, beautiful, unstable, Mark’s magnetism is matched only fabulously wealthy Mark. by his damage. Unimaginably wealthy For a time, the house and luxurious from birth, echoing Sebastian Flyte in lifestyle they share – Mark’s eager gift to his mysterious sado-masochism, all his the group – seems an oasis, its crumbling relationships have been blighted by his Georgian splendour and lavish indulgence casual assumption of power. In The in keeping with the dreaming spires and Lessons the freedom and luxury of great golden stone surrounding them. Yet as they wealth sits right by its destructive and leave Oxford and try to wend their separate isolating impact – and what begins as a ways through the maze of the real world, paean to gilded youth becomes a touching the threads of memory keep drawing them exploration of the price of privilege. 34—MArYleBONe JOurNAl BOOKS

Annabel Wayne’s female side (literally as well as by Kathleen Winter symbolically manifest in menstruation Jonathan cape, £12.99 and the risk of pregnancy) is nurtured in secret by his mother and thomasina, and christened Annabel. In the wilds of canada in 1968, a child Wayne/Annabel’s struggle to find an is born who seems to be both boy authentic means of self-expression has and girl, his hermaphrodite nature momentous consequences – not just a secret shared only by his parents for the adolescent but for the three and the wise, compassionate teacher adults party to the secret. thomasina, present at the birth. As Winter is from Montreal, and the child’s penis reaches a certain her evocation of vast, inhospitable arbitrary length, the vagina is sewn landscapes and the men who inhabit up and he is raised as a boy named them is masterly. But further, Wayne. In the hyper-masculine Annabel/Wayne’s pain, confusion, hunting culture of remote canada courage and gradually emergent however, Wayne never quite fits in. sense of self are sensitively handled. His close friendship with ambitious It’s a novel about individuality and girl Wally Michelin and an acute what it means, self-knowledge and sensitivity to beauty disquiets and then its price, and about the immense enrages his father. As he grows up, resilience of the human spirit.

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate 18th centuries are the “dirty” centuries, as History of the Home people believed washing the naked body to by lucy Worsley be either dangerous or sexually arousing. Faber and Faber, £20 Tudors cured female sexual dysfunction with goose grease. Women didn’t wear knickers until the late 18th century. Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk: William III favoured green socks with red An Intimate History of the Home is as vests. The Timely Warning was a 19th- fantastically gossipy as its title suggests. century penis-cooling device that used cold The book of a BBC series that I regret to say water to “cool the organ of generation, so has passed me by, it explores the last 800- that the erection subsides and no discharge odd years of English social history through occurs”. (A female equivalent was not developments in the various rooms of the mentioned.) house. Along the way Worsely covers sex, I won’t continue, lest I run out of space food, marriages, masturbation, medicine, to eulogise about the easy familiarity of underwear, animals, carpet cleaning, Worsley’s writing, and the assurance with “the important social distinction between which she handles her vastly disparate being infested with lice and with fleas” and range of material. The joy of If Walls Could Lord Byron’s habit of “passing round, after Talk isn’t just the facts, but the personal dinner, a human skull filled with burgundy”. stories that emerge. William III (he of the The sheer amount of unexpected detail, multicoloured undergarments) slept in a even to a social history junkie like me servant’s pallet bed beside his dying wife so is amazing, and hard to convey without as not to miss a single one of his remaining simply quoting random facts. The English hours in her company. Mehitable Parker’s and the French have been playing out neighbours complained to her in 1683 their differences through cookery since because they feared she loved her husband the 11th century. Fashionable 1930s more than God. If this book demonstrates housewives would host “refrigerator one thing, in all its nosy glory, it’s that some parties” to showcase the capabilities of aspects of the human condition don’t their new equipment. The late 16th to early change – and some, thankfully, do. msf2011_mj_adartwk_june.indd 1 24/5/11 18:23:03 36—MArYleBONe JOurNAl June – July 2011 culture: GUIDE

Around the World in 80 Songs (Family Danny Driver (piano): CPE Bach, MuSIc Day for age 5 plus) – 10:30am Schumann, Debussy, Dale and Bowen Philippe Graffin (violin); Truls Mørk – 7:30pm Wigmore Hall (cello); Juliette Hurel (flute); Chen Sunday 10 July 36 Wigmore Street, W1 Halevi (clarinet); Stephen Kovacevich Jack Liebeck (violin); Katya 020 7935 2141 (piano); Claire Désert (piano): Apekisheva (piano): Beethoven, wigmorehall:org:uk Consonances in Miniature – 7:30pm Szymanowski and Schumann – Sunday 26 June 11:30am The world famous concert venue has Finghin Collins (piano): Beethoven Sunday 10 July a packed schedule of the very finest and Debussy – 11:30am The Brook Street Band: Leclair, chamber music: Visit the website for Martin Cousin (piano): Beethoven, Couperin and Handel – 7:30pm more detailed listings: Brahms, Liadov and Glazunov – Monday 11 July 7:30pm Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano); Tim Sunday 12 June Monday 27 June Lowe (cello); James Baillieu (piano): Kit Armstrong (piano) – 11:30am Wu String Quartet; Maria Marchant The Monday Platform – 7:30pm Jacqueline Roche (violin); Matthew (piano): The Monday Platform – tuesday 12 July Jones (viola); Sophia Rahman 7:30pm Christian Blackshaw (piano): Mozart, (piano): Ravel, Bach and Franck – Wednesday 29 June Schubert and Schumann – 7:30pm 7:30pm Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo – Wednesday 13 July Monday 13 June soprano); András Schiff (piano): Jupiter Quartet: Webern, Bartók, Thomas Hampson (baritone); Christopher Raeburn Memorial Kurtág and Beethoven – 7:30pm Wolfram Rieger (piano): Mahler – Concert – 7:30pm Friday 15 July 7:30pm thursday 30 June Passion and Resurrection: Pre-Concert tuesday 14 June Trevor Pinnock and Friends with Lucy talk: A musical journey through the Paul Lewis (piano): Schubert – Crowe: Purcell, Bach and Handel – events of Holy Week – 6pm 7:30pm 7:30pm Friday 15 July Friday 17 June Friday 1 July Stile Antico: Passion and Resurrection Dante String Quartet: Haydn, Ruth Ziesak (soprano); Michael – 7:30pm Schumann and Sibelius – 7pm Collins (clarinet); András Schiff Saturday 16 July The Other Ebene: Late Night Concert (piano): Schumann, Schubert and Sylvia Schwartz (soprano); Malcolm – 10pm Liszt – 7:30pm Martineau (piano): Decade by Decade Saturday 18 June Saturday 2 July – 100 Years of German Song from Yaniv d’Or counter(tenor); Ensemble Florilegium; Ashley Solomon (director, 1990-1910 – 7:30pm NAYA; Laurence Cummings flute, recorder); Rachel Podger (violin, Sunday 17 July (harpsichord); Iain Burnside (piano): guest director); Julian Podger (tenor): Francois Chaplin (piano): Chopin, Liquefacta Est – 7:30pm Florilegium 20th Anniversary – Fauré and Debussy – 11:30am Sunday 19 June 7:30pm Monday 18 July Marianne Thorsen (violin); Håvard Sunday 3 July Academy of Ancient Music: JS Bach Gimse (piano): Mozart and Fauré – Richard Harwood (cello); Christoph – 7:30pm 11:30am Berner (piano): Beethoven, tuesday 19 July Sunday 19 June Shostakovich and Bridge – 11:30am Waldstein Ensemble: Mozart, Fauré Ann Murray DBE (mezzo – soprano); Sunday 3 July and Brahms – 7:30pm Malcolm Martineau (piano): Ann Florilegium; Ashley Solomon (director, Wednesday 20 July Murray Wigmore Hall Farewell Recital flute, recorder); Rachel Podger (violin, David Fray (piano): Mozart and – 7:30pm guest director); Julian Podger (tenor): Beethoven – 7:30pm Monday 20 June Florilegium 20th Anniversary – thursday 21 July Soloists of the London Philharmonic 7:30pm Alexander Chaushian (cello); Yevgeny Orchestra: Brahms, Martinu and Monday 4 July Sudbin (piano) Beethoven – 7:30pm RCM Chamber Music Concert: Angels Stravinsky, Schnittke, Rachmaninov tuesday 21 June and Demons – 7:30pm and Prokofiev – 7:30pm Mark Padmore (tenor); Paul Lewis tuesday 5 July Friday 22 July (piano): Schubert – 7:30pm David Frühwirth (violin); Milana Stradivari Quartett: Wednesday 22 June Chernyavska (piano): Romantic Mozart, Schnyder and Ravel – 7pm Skampa Quartet: Schubert, Violin – 7:30pm Friday 22 July Shostakovich and Dvorák – 7:30pm Wednesday 6 July London Handel Players: Late Night thursday 23 June Christiane Oelze (soprano); Malcolm Concert – 10pm Mark Padmore (tenor); Paul Lewis Martineau (piano): Decade by Decade, Saturday 23 July (piano): Schubert – 7:30pm 100 Years of German Song from 1890 Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano); Julius Friday 24 June to1990 – 7:30pm Drake (piano): Si mes vers avaient des The Cardinall’s Musick: Palestrina, thursday 7 July ailes: Love and Life in French Mélodies Allegri, Quagliati, Casciolini and Lars Vogt (piano): Janácek, Schubert – 7:30pm Frescobaldi – 7pm and Beethoven – 7:30pm Sunday 24 July Joanna MacGregor (piano): Late Friday 8 July Michelangelo Quartet: Beethoven and Night Concert: Bach and Shostakovich Young Songmakers: A Night in Venice, Dvorák – 11:30am – 10pm A Serenade to Serenissima – 7pm Sunday 24 July Saturday 25 June Saturday 9 July Robert Henry (piano): Bach, Debussy 37—MArYleBONe JOurNAl culture

and Chopin – 7:30pm 5 July Wednesday 27 July Cyprus and the Sinai Icons New London Chamber Ensemble; Art historian robin cormack Angela Hewitt (piano): Mozart, gives an illustrated lecture on mechanical marvels and more – the culture of the Monastery 7:30pm of St catherine’s at Sinai, from thursday 28 July late Antiquity onwards, and its Yevgeny Sudbin (piano): Beethoven, relation to the island of cyprus. Liszt, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov 7pm and Medtner – 7:30pm Admission free but confirm Friday 29 July attendance on 020 7563 9835 or Priya Mitchell and Friends: Cities of [email protected] Dreams – From Istanbul to Buenos Aires – 7:30pm Royal Society of Medicine 1 Wimpole Street, W1 The Royal Academy of Music 020 7290 2900 Marylebone Road, NW1 rsm.ac.uk 020 7873 7300 ram.ac.uk/events until June 24 Exhibition: Incurable Optimism The Royal Academy has a large and Artist Patrick Joyce has motor varied programme of public concerts, neurone disease. He has set out to including many that are free of charge. paint 100 portraits of the people Check the website for full listings. who have inspired him before he dies. the exhibition is part of the Wednesday 15 June MND Association’s campaign, Liszt’s Songs: Unheard Words for Incurable Optimism. Piano – 7:30pm 9:30am-5:30pm Friday17 June Free Marylebone Musical Walk Exploring the rich musical history Patrick Joyce; Royal 7 June of Marylebone and local Academy eveNtS Society of Medicine Public debate: Genetic Medalling figures – 2pm Asia House this debate looks at the role Sunday 19 June 63 New Cavendish Street, W1 of genetics in athletic prowess. British Flute Society/Royal Academy 020 7307 5454 How might this affect attitudes of Music Premier Flautist Series asiahouse.org to sporting ability and fairness? . – 5pm Would it be fair to segregate sports Wednesday 22 June 5 July based on ‘race’ if it turns out that Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) – Orange Dust: Journeys after the Buddha certain ‘races’ have a genetic 1:05pm Any book with a glowing foreword advantage? experts will debate Royal Academy Opera Scenes – 6pm written by the Dalai lama has to these issues and how they may thursday 23 June be worth its salt. this account of impact on the 2012 Olympics. Academy Musical Theatre Company the Bhudda’s teachings, written 6.30pm and Orchestra: ‘Follies’ – 7:30pm by tour guide Kenneth Wilson is Free, but confirm attendance at Friday 24 June no exception. In this talk he deals [email protected] Leclair Sonatas – 1:05pm with such humdrum issues as Academy Musical Theatre Company birth, enlightenment and death. Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Orchestra: ‘Follies’ – 2pm 6:45pm Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 Musical Theatre Cabaret – 5:30pm tickets £6-£10 0844 826 4242 Academy Musical Theatre Company openairtheatre.com and Band: ‘Tommy’ – 7:30pm Hellenic Centre Saturday 25 June 16 – 18 Paddington Street, W1 2 – 23 July Academy Musical Theatre Company 020 7487 5060 Pericles: Reimagined and Band: ‘Tommy’ – 2pm helleniccentre.org last year it was Macbeth, this year Academy Musical Theatre Company the Shakespeare play performed and Orchestra: ‘Follies’ – 7:30pm 22 June with children in mind is the Sunday 26 June The Island epic tale of Pericles. redesigned Bach Cantatas, supported by the victoria Hislop discusses the specifically for the whole family, Kohn Foundation – 12pm writing of her novel, the Island, director Natalie Abrahami Academy Musical Theatre Company set on the cretan leper colony of brings the story of shipwrecks, and Orchestra: ‘Follies’ – 2pm Spinalonga, and its journey from tournaments and love lost and Musical Theatre Cabaret – 5:30pm book to screen. found to a whole new audience. tuesday 28 June 7:15pm Suitable for everyone over the Violin and Piano – 1:05pm Admission free but confirm age of six. Academy Viol Consort:Byrd’s attendance on 020 7563 9835 or momentous six-part Fantasias – 6pm [email protected] 38—MArYleBONe JOurNAl culture

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Art 01 A&D Gallery 51 Chiltern Street, W1 020 7486 0534 aanddgallery.com

2 June – 8 July Summer Sale In June, A&D Gallery will break with tradition and replace its Summer Show with a fund raising Summer Sale. Artists include Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol, and profits will go to the Prince’s Foundation for children & the Arts, and to various projects via the Friends of Pine ridge reservation. Admission free Mon-Sat 10.30am-7pm

The Colomb Art Gallery 17 Bulstrode Street, W1 0845 508 4624 heart-break.co.uk

17 June – mid-September Summer Exhibition Gary and Jerry Walton feature in this lineup of award-winning artists. With painstaking attention to detail, Jerry immortalises the beauty of nature in watercolour, while his brother creates distinctive landscapes with a colour palette and style reminiscent of his inspiration, Salvador Dali. Admission free Mon-Fri 9:30am-6:30pm Sat 10am-5pm

GV Art Gallery, 52a George Street, W1 01 Helen Pynor, GV Art 020 8408 9800 02 03 02 Helen Pynor GV Art gvart.co.uk 03 David Marron, GV Art 04 Gary Walton, The Colomb Art Gallery until 2 July 05 Daniela Mastandrea, jaggedart 06 Paula Zimmerman, Heartbreak BREATH, Helen Pynor Gallery capturing the horror of accidental drowning while treating her subjects with a deft tenderness, artist Helen Pynor explores the interior of the body. Her water- buoyed garments, with organs floating from the spectral folds, are transfixing and eerily fascinating as opposed to overtly disturbing.

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04 when the two collide. the show encased in mist or bursting with will feature David Marron, dappled light, it’s the ideal antidote an artist who combines the to the chaos of city life. anatomical with the aesthetic. Mon - Fri 10 – 6 pm, Admission free Sat10.30 – 5.30 pm tues-Fri 11am-5pm Sun11 – 5pm Sat 11am-4pm RIBA Heartbreak Gallery 66 Portland Place, W1 17 Bulstrode Street W1 020 7580 5533 020 3219 5710 architecture.com heart-break.co.uk until 23 June 8 July – 14 August 61/11 Continuous Collective: BDP Paula Zimmerman at 50 Who better to celebrate man’s best In 2011 BDP, one of the largest friend than Paula Zimmerman? collectives of designers, Fascinated by the expressions, architects, engineers and and the hidden thoughts running urbanists in europe, turns 50. through their minds, she captures this exhibition traces the ethos each dog’s personality as well and work of the practice – from as reflecting the unique bond its inception in 1961, when it between humans and their four rode the wave of cultural change 05 legged friends. breaking over england, to the Admission free international design firm it is Mon-Sat 10am-6pm today. Also book seats for the Sun 11am-4pm Gallery talks series led by tony McGuirk, the urban designer and jaggedart chairman of BDP. 28a Devonshire Street W1 020 7486 7374 until 6 July jaggedart.co.uk Reinvigorating the North East: Architecture 1945-1979 15 June – 22 July this exhibition traces the Midsummer Magic changes in architecture in the From 3D sculptures to prints and north east of england in response canvas, this celebration of the to economic challenges, social sunny season includes work from optimism and political conflict 06 stone sculptor Jude tucker, claire in the aftermath of the Second Brewster’s cut outs of insects, World War. It features models, flowers and fauna and Patricia archive footage and photography Swannell’s striking portrayal of of the key buildings and projects nature in focus. exploring a range shaping the region between 1945 04 of perspectives, and using a variety and 1979. of media, step in from the heat Admission free and celebrate all that is wonderful Mon-Sat 10am-5pm about the British summer. (tues 10am-9pm) Admission free Wed-Fri 11am -6pm Wallace Collection Sat 11am-2pm Manchester Square, W1 020 7887 8998 Thompson’s Gallery wallacecollection.org 15 New Cavendish Street, W1 020 7935 3595 23 June – 25 September thompsonsgallery.co.uk Time Regained: Dr Kevin Coates Associate artist Kevin coates, the until 26 June uK’s foremost artist-goldsmith, David Anthony Hall: Solo Exhibition draws further inspiration from of Photography the Wallace collection with his David Anthony Hall’s landscape signature technical brilliance. photography captures the See pp20-23 for more details. magnificence, colour and solitude Admission free of pastoral landscapes with a Daily 10am-5pm powerful simplicity that never falls short of poignancy. Whether 40—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL stYLE

From lone believer to industry leader – Shannon Denny meets Chrystina Schmidt, one of the steely Scandanavian minds behind design emporium Skandium’s unprecedented rise to success

though many Londoners might store, nothing fancy, just on a shelf. were talking about!” Fortunately already have had a passing And we just thought they were the couple met Danish investment appreciation of scandinavian amazing. so we said, ‘this is like the banker Christopher seidenfaden Modernism before 1999, getting their Gucci of interiors – we should really at a party. His mother had owned a hands on Georg Jensen cutlery, an bring this to London.’” design store in Rome in the 1960s, Arne Jacobsen chair or Marimekko the pair returned to their and his grandfather had founded the fabric in those days was a different adopted city and started leading lighting manufacturer Louis matter. that all changed one fateful contemplating a way to convey “the Poulsen. “He was absolutely in awe of day when Chrystina schmidt and journey of Modernism” to the British the concept,” she recalls. the three Magnus Englund laid eyes on a set of public. At this time Magnus, who is decided to go into business together kitchen tools lying unassumingly on swedish, was working for the fashion and set out to be the best retailer of a shelf in a Finnish department store. designer Paul smith while Chrystina scandinavian design in the world. the pair – who are partners in life was in demand as a photographer the choice of location for their as well as business – took inspiration in the fashion industry. “Magnus venture was made with care. “the from what they glimpsed, and the was having second thoughts about thing is, we wanted to be in central result is skandium, one of the most fashion,” she explains. “He said, ‘You London; we did not want to go to influential design stores in the UK. know, I don’t really want to work in Chelsea or Kensington or Richmond. It’s a chilly but dazzlingly sunny fashion the way it works now, where We wanted to be an international day, and Chrystina – true to her native you have to have new all the time; lantern of scandinavian design, and Finnish form – suggests we sit outside it’s much better to focus on quality, that meant central London.” Money Patisserie Valerie in Marylebone tradition and craftsmanship.’” was tight, so they looked to roads off High street so we can soak up a this notion went into the pitch and behind Oxford street and Bond maximum of solar energy. thanks they prepared to deliver to banks street and, after some searching, perhaps to their long, dark winters, with a view to obtaining a loan. settled on Marylebone. “Wigmore scandinavians lead the world in coffee “I made a presentation with mood street at the time was totally barren consumption, so in keeping with this boards on scandinavian design,” and empty with a few stores selling trend we order lattes while she fills me Chrystina remembers. “Wallpaper* medical equipment!” she recalls in on the skandium story. had just come out with a supplement incredulously. “We got the premises “We went to Finland to see my on stockholm, so we had with us the because no one else wanted it – it was parents in summer 98, and that magazine, showing it was something so dilapidated. It had been empty for was when Finland celebrated 100 that was in the air and the press had five years.” years of Alvar Aalto, the architect.” picked up on it. there was no such transforming the rundown Everywhere they went they saw store anywhere in the world which location into a suitable backdrop tributes to the legendary Finn’s was a United Nations of scandinavian for some of history’s most important iconic creations, ranging from design, as we called it. so we presented design innovations took some stools to glassware to buildings. the this to a bank. this guy was sitting doing – Chrystina describes it as a experience pushed scandinavian behind his desk, very important in his “horrendous ordeal”. “We did that design to the front of their minds. self-righteousness. When we finished shop on a shoestring,” she says. “the “then that summer, Iittala came he said, ‘I don’t quite get it… What day before we were meant to open, out with a series of beautiful kitchen wallpaper do you want to sell?’” the shop wasn’t ready. the floors tools from international designers. Chrystina laughs endlessly about were still wet with paint. All our It is a very old company; they have it now, but at the time it must have crates from Finland, sweden and glasses from the 20s and 30s that are been crushing. “No one believed Denmark were lined up Wigmore still in production. By accident, we in the concept,” she says. “they street from the corner down to saw this in a provincial department didn’t even understand what we the store because we couldn’t take 41—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL stYLE

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concession in selfridges, and later this year is launching in Fitzrovia together with the esteemed furniture manufacturer Fritz Hansen. One wonders what the naysayers must be thinking now. ”We are doing well and we are really proud,” Chrystina smiles. “We proved banks wrong who said it would fail in the first year. We are still here after 11 years and it’s going better and better actually. It’s good!” In spite of their growing geographical reach across the capital, Chrystina insists her heart belongs to the district where their vision first took hold. “I love Marylebone. I’m a Marylebone girl, because when we moved to London we were lucky enough to find a place that we rented in Gloucester Place. them in and we couldn’t afford a been designed as part of a project or at At the time, Marylebone was not as warehouse. We had to have trust in a time when nothing else around was glamorous as it is now. It was really the people around us to not walk off remotely similar, so they had a very the backwaters of the universe in a with the crates. And they didn’t! And big impact on the wider development way – totally forgotten. But for us, it I’m eternally grateful to them.” of what we today perceive as good, was home. And still every time I come Londoners in turn were comfortable, modern living.” from Brompton Road to Marylebone vociferously grateful to skandium for After four years in their initial my heart beats a bit faster.” satisfying their yearning for modern location, the Wigmore street they rented their sunny flat scandinavian furniture, glass, china, landlords decided to redevelop. By for a decade before the landlord cutlery, toys, lighting and stylish coincidence, at exactly the same time announced that he wanted it back, household products. “When we the Howard de Walden Estate invited prompting a move to an Earl’s Court opened, sir Norman Foster jumped skandium to move around the mansion block where they have lived out of a cab, ran in and congratulated corner. “they said, ‘We had someone for two years. still, she is able to draw us.” the lauded architect wasn’t do market research with a stopwatch upon memories of her early London the only luminary to express his standing outside your store, and we years with ease. “I would sometimes admiration; textile designer Lucienne were just wondering – are you hiring walk down Marylebone High street Day was an early visitor too. skandium friends to come in? Because you have and be surprised because it was very quickly established itself as a showcase the highest volume of customers of quaint – but dead. there was nothing for classics from renowned designers all the stores we did research on.’” of interest, just a few charity shops. It as well as products from a new Chrystina, Magnus and Christopher was so central, we thought, ‘At some generation of scandinavian stars. jumped at the chance to move, and point this must come to life!’” International designers working for the subsequent success of their It’s another illustration of scandinavian companies were also Marylebone High street location Chrystina’s knack for forecasting represented, among them Antonio led to a similar invitation by south where tastes will lead. she admits she Citterio and Ross Lovegrove. Kensington Estates to open up in does have some kind of special talent so while banks had failed to grasp their emerging Brompton Quarters. for observation. “My grandmother their vision, the public embraced it. skandium also operates a always used to say to austique.co.uk Chrystina says the secret is simple. me, ‘Girl, if you don’t get anywhere “You want to give quality and long- LINKS in life you always have your eagle lasting ideals. Everything that we sell eyes. You were born with eagle eyes. has a story, an identity. I think we are Skandium Remember to use them, because living more and more in a world that 86 Marylebone High Street that’s a gift.’” so instead of asking her gets anonymous. We are not selling 0207 935 2077 about wallpaper, that bank manager items without a provenance; there is skandium.com would have been wise to listen to something to them. Most of them have her predictions. 43—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL stYLE: IN BRIEF MADE tO tAILOR AUstIQUE MEAsURE MADE POWERs

Pauline Burrows doesn’t look or sound Exciting fashion designers have been much like the bespoke tailor of your flocking to Marylebone in recent imagination. She’s not old, dusty, formal or years, but this time it’s not one designer a little bit creepy. Instead she’s a cheerful following in their colourful footprints soul with a lilting north-east brogue and a but several smaller brands, all creamed bright smile. And the clothes she makes from the very best of contemporary in her new Chiltern Street shop are just womenswear, lingerie and accessories as heartwarming – being handmade by design and presented under the a highly skilled artisan they are, as you’d beautifully purposed New Cavendish expect, beautifully tailored, but there are street roof of King’s Road favourite the Neville Johnson bespoke other things that make them stand out. Austiqe. Alongside established brands furniture company has opened a new Partly it’s the attention given to the details such as Markus Lupfer, Alice & Olivia flagship store on Wigmores treet. – the collars, the cuffs, the buttons, the and Zimmerman, and the shop’s own- Concepts on display in the seams and the backs. “People forget to label range, you will find plenty of as impressively laid-out shop include give shirts a good back,” she says, “but yet undiscovered young talent. some a library (pictured above), a stylish it’s what half the world sees when you of these have names so intriguing home cinema and a luxurious walk along.” And partly it’s the materials you’ll be tempted to buy from them walk-in-wardrobe, all of which have she uses – unusual textures and shades regardless of what the collections been designed to demonstrate abound. The results, which are coveted by actually look like – Love Quotes, the how versatile the brand’s bespoke a long list of regular customers, are classic Pocket Garden and sexy Panties and furniture can be. in style but with bags of individuality. Naughty Knickers being cases in point.

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NEW BEGINNINGs

She was the force behind Fat Face and the making of Monsoon. Now Louise Barnes tells Stevie Martin about her vision for Marylebone native Fenn Wright Manson

For all its quality clothes and timeless cuts, Fenn Wright Manson was due for a revamp. “It’s one of those brands you have a warm fuzzy feeling about and can’t quite remember why. It just needed a bit of a polish,” explains CEO Louise Barnes, running around the newly polished rails of a stockroom laden with the fur jackets, beatnik jumpers and polka dot dresses that make up the new, as yet unreleased collection. A shearling coat nestled between two cashmere cardigans is plucked out and stroked, in a manner reminiscent of a child in a dressing- up box. “Oh isn’t it marvellous? the changing rooms, which come know us from before and those we’d Made by a little man in the East End. complete with Jimmy Choo heels, like to say hello to.” While further He’s wonderful.” she looks over her helpfully placed on hand to eradicate strengthening their ties with the shoulder conspiratorially. “We can’t those why-did-I-choose-to-wear-old- big-name department stores such put it in all the stores, but it’s definitely trainers moments. “It’s awful isn’t as John Lewis and selfridges is going in Marylebone.” it? On the one day you want to try important, the focus is very much on Marylebone High street, where on a posh frock, you’ll undoubtedly the company’s own spaces. It’s time the very first Fenn Wright Manson be wearing horrific shoes. Or pop to start pulling in customers and retail store was established 12 years socks,” says Louise. such flourishes establishing this new, improved Fenn ago, is at the centre of Louise’s plan to give Fenn Wright a new edge, and Wright Manson. put Fenn Wright Manson back on the there’s no doubt Marylebone suits its If anyone is going to achieve this, it’s sartorial map. to date there are three new direction perfectly. Louise. softly spoken, immaculately stores fully refurbished in the UK It’s that blend of quaint suburbia turned out and with a penchant for – Wilmslow and Ringwood are the and thriving city, crammed into caressing coats, she certainly has other two – but it’s Marylebone that one street lined with the chic and the credentials needed to give the spearheaded the transformation. charming shop fronts that truly brand a lift. In 1986, after honing her With its airy, boutique style, it’s the defines the Fenn Wright’s “think merchandise and branding skills at same Fenn Wright Manson but more global act local” premise – and it the Burton Group and Etam, she was contemporary – and it’s setting the makes pinpointing equally suitable told a little clothing chain wanted a tone for others to follow. locations for stores fairly difficult. branding boost. Her initial impression Not only does she plan to roll out “I was trying to think where else was fairly mixed. “It was full of clothes 10 stores a year, but Louise wants to go in London over breakfast this with jingly-jangly bits, and I thought to emulate that unique, intangible morning and I’m struggling to think it was a bit weird. But when I met the charm captured in the intimacy of somewhere like Marylebone. team, I found something exciting, of Marylebone. smoked glass lines It’s the perfect mix of people that something a bit magical.” When she 45—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL stYLE

left 11 years later, the company was a household name: Monsoon. this success led to another bout of brand reinvention for two young men who had opened a store in Fulham to make enough money to support their love of outdoor sports. seven years and 185 shops later the charmingly titled Fat Face was well and truly established, with the owners able to attack as many waves and slopes as they wanted. Now it’s the turn of Fenn Wright Manson – a brand founded in 1974 by Colin Fenn, trevor Wright and Glynn Manson. And the selling point? What Louise calls the ‘Nirvana Wardrobe’ – which regulars will be pleased to hear has nothing to do with the seattle grunge band. Effortlessness is the name of the game, with a splash of cosmopolitan chic for those with a taste for continental elegance. the pieces can be dressed up in heels – Jimmy Choo or otherwise – and dressed down with boots and a cardigan. they are tailored for all occasions. “When I grow up, I want a wardrobe where there’s only 20 things but they’re all quite perfect,” she muses, picking out a light floral summer dress and a beeline for a cardigan – “I’m Of course it’s mainly about the sighing. “I think all of us open the always looking for that bit of sparkle clothes, but the future is not just wardrobe doors and think, oh god! that lifts a tee shirt or a jumper” – woven from top notch fabric. With a Is this it? My life’s work of shopping and twirling the fabric to set the brand such as Fenn Wright Manson and all it’s come to is this!” sequinned stripes shimmering. the possibilities are endless. Candles, It’s this thinking that gives Fenn this, blended with immaculate cuts body lotion, soap, fragrances, Wright Manson devotees something means Louise and her team are onto sunglasses, watches, luggage – to get excited about. Louise is not a winner. “We want surprises, so when Louise pauses and laughs suddenly. sat behind a desk, holed away in her you’re trying something on you think, “I’m going to have to buy a B&Q!” office.s he’s in the thick of it, and oh! I didn’t know that was going to be It’s all part of the plan. soon her enthusiasm is quite infectious. there,” she explains, before darting the woman seeking the Nirvana After the Marylebone redesign she back towards a ruched black evening Wardrobe will be able to fully organised focus groups of regular dress and beaming. “Look, you’d immerse herself into the Fenn customers to discuss the imminent immediately think, I couldn’t possibly Wright Manson lifestyle. “It’s funny,” collection. “they never hold back. wear that, but it’s actually incredibly says Louise, as she sits back down, they tell you the good stuff and flattering. Ruching hides a multitude “everyone says: ‘Hmm yes, I kind the bad. We don’t want to leave of sins, and we’ve all got sins to cover!” of recognise the name, but I can’t behind the people who love us at the tell where from. I think my mum moment, but they do want us to be LINKS used to like them’, or: ‘Oooh do updated.” they do lovely linen things or silks?’ As with the details of the shop Fenn Wright Manson It’s all positive, and that nostalgia itself, it’s the detailing in the clothes 95 Marylebone High Street is a great thing to build on.” With that really gives the new style 020 7486 6040 this sparky CEO at the helm, Fenn direction some wallop. It’s not long fennwrightmanson.com Wright Manson is finally getting the before Louise is up again, making polishing it deserves. 46—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL sTYLE cApE cRUsAdERs Mark Riddaway meets Jane Buckley, a woman who gave up a life of leisure to bring the unique furniture of Muralto all the way from Cape Town to Marylebone

For most people, the idea of retiring swiss,” she says. “He moved to south architecture, especially in cape Town, while still in the prime of life and Africa around 40 years ago and began is ultra-modern, very contemporary, heading off to the south of France designing and making furniture absolutely stunning, and Muralto is a to wile away the long days basking in there. He learned the trade in Zurich, perfect reflection of that.” Mediterranean sunshine would be then got on a boat and started a whole One of the great benefits of an appealing one. But Jane Buckley new life in cape Town. He met my the business is the level of control clearly isn’t most people. aunt, and they built the business up.” provided by Rene’s own factory. “Three years ago, my husband Rene’s business, which he This dovetails perfectly with Jane’s retired, so I gave up my job and we named Muralto after the region philosophy of customer service. moved to Nice,” she says. “It was lovely of switzerland where he had been “It’s having that end-to-end set-up at first, but pretty soon it started to brought up, flourished. “They opened that gives us the edge in giving our do my head in. There’s only a certain a couple of retail outlets – they customers exactly what they want,” amount of rosé you can drink. I was design, manufacture and sell the she says. Like that sofa, but need doing damage to my liver and getting a furniture, which is unusual in this it to be six inches shorter? Not a bit bored. I really missed working.” day and age.” But despite its enviable problem – they’ll get one made that’s Being an adventurous soul as reputation for clean design and six inches shorter. Keen on that well as a restless grafter, she decided expert craftsmanship, his furniture chair but the colour doesn’t match that rather than returning to her was only really being sold in south your walls? Fine – just tell them what highly successful previous life in Africa. After Jane and her husband colour you’re after. Browsing the the banking sector, she would strike John paid him a visit, they began to Marylebone showroom is the start of out in an entirely new direction by wonder how Rene’s furniture could the process, not the end. opening a furniture business. “This find the wider audience it deserved. This flexibility reached its apogee time last year I knew nothing about “We just thought it had real potential before christmas when a businessman furniture except what I’d picked for an international market. I took this came into the shop to buy a painting up from magazines” she says with leap of faith, and here we are.” – one of the many striking artworks a bemused laugh, as we sit among south Africa might not be the most by a young south African artist sold the beautiful modernist pieces on obvious source of great modernist exclusively by Muralto. “He was going display in her new Marylebone shop, furniture, but Jane insists that its Muralto. But although she was no credentials shouldn’t be overlooked. LINKS furniture expert herself, she knew a “When you think about south man who most assuredly was. African furniture you probably Muralto Jane’s uncle is Rene Haas, a think of dark wood and carvings, 6 Seymour Place renowned designer and manufacturer but there’s actually some real 020 7724 3750 of contemporary furniture, based craftsmanship there, and they make muralto.co.uk in cape Town, south Africa. “He’s some amazing furniture. some of the 47—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL sTYLE

people in cape Town have, looking out over the sea, so for the next order we were able to bring over smaller pieces, which worked much better.” One of the pieces of furniture that will be making that same journey in the not too distant future will mark a new direction for the company – rather than being designed by Rene, it will have sprung from the imagination of a young British designer. Muralto recently launched a new award in conjunction with the Institute of Interior design, aimed at nurturing young design talent in the UK. “Rene isn’t getting any younger,” laughs Jane, “so we thought it would be good to run a competition for young graduates to design a piece of furniture – a down to Mirabel for christmas with arrived in London from Northern commercial piece, nothing too wacky. his family and wanted the painting Ireland at the age of 17, “got off the We’ll manufacture the winning piece there,” says Jane. “It was during the bus at Victoria station, then walked and sell it here. It could be the start of really heavy snow, and we tried every around until I found a job”. The something very exciting.” single shipping company, but nobody opening of Muralto was almost a The launch of the competition was able to get it delivered in time.” disaster of epic proportions after the pitched Jane still deeper into the world The result? Jane’s young colleague shipping containers carrying the stock of professional interior design – yet Antonia, who manages the shop, from south Africa were damaged in another rapid education in what has hired a transit van and persuaded her transit, destroying all the furniture been a year of learning on her feet. “It’s boyfriend to join her on a slippery 12 and setting the opening back by six terrifying. But what you put in dictates hour drive to the French Alps. months. But even this worked out well what you get out. We’re meeting lots providing happy endings to in the end. “We were able to take a of interior designers, and I’m really potentially disastrous stories seems to step back and get to know the area,” enjoying getting to know the trade.” be something of a speciality, thanks says Jane. “One thing we quickly “It’s whole new world for me,” she largely to the energy and enthusiasm noticed is that especially around here, says, with a big, wide-eyed laugh. transmitted by Jane, a woman who people don’t have the vast rooms that “You don’t get air kissing in Ireland.” 48—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL fOOd

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Simon Rogan made his name in Cumbria, turning British ingredients into beautiful, innovative dishes. Sybil Kapoor meets this exceptional chef as his first London restaurant prepares to open

Building work is always regarded with territorial interest in Marylebone. Who is moving in and what are they doing? Many of you will have noticed that Michael Moore’s old restaurant at 19 Blandford Street is being transformed into a new restaurant called Roganic. It’s being publicised as a two year pop-up restaurant and is the brainchild of Simon Rogan, the Michelin-starred chef and owner of L’Enclume in Cumbria. Naturally, as a curious Marylebonite, I felt honour-bound to investigate exactly what Rogan planned to do with his new restaurant. But as we sit over a cup of tea at La fromagerie, it soon becomes clear that Roganic, like all of Simon’s projects, is going to evolve week by week. He is not of the old-fashioned Michelin-style school where you create a menu, and then refine it so that it reproduces itself perfectly year after year. Rather, he is someone who is constantly adapting how he cooks in response to his environment, customers and current interests. Simon set up L’Enclume in the picturesque Lake district village of Cartmel in 2002. Within a year he had a Michelin star and was receiving rave reviews for his beautiful, innovative food. “When we opened I had an idea of how I wanted to cook, and I tested it out for the first eight months,” he recalls. “At that time I was very influenced by Marc Veyrat.” Veyrat is one of france’s most rogan’s run famous chefs, who created wild and 50—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL fOOd

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wonderful molecular-style dishes old private dining room downstairs squid and cucumber; or sweet cicely using mountain herbs, flowers and being replaced by more prep space with strawberry, buttermilk and roots from his local Haute-Savoie for the kitchen. verbena? Especially when the latter region. “I realised that although Curiously, Ben Spalding has is made with a sweet cicely ice cream the Lake district might not quite be already worked in Marylebone, just and served with strawberries that the Alps, a lot of our local produce a few doors down at L’Autre Pied, have been compressed in a vacuum is very similar to what Marc Veyrat where he spent 2008 as the senior in strawberry juice, and served used,” he continues. “Then I got a bit sous chef. for the past few months he with a cold set custard made from side-tracked by the technical side and has been working at L’Enclume, so buttermilk, a verbena syrup, verbena went through Japanese, Greek and he’s been fully imbued with the ethos leaves and a tuille made from Spanish-influenced phases [think of the kitchen. dehydrated strawberry juice? El Bulli rather than paella], until And that ethos produces some The Britishness of the menu does finally, I realised that rather than truly extraordinary food. In July, for not stop with the food. “Obviously deconstructing to reconstruct the example, you can expect to eat such we’ll have an international wine list, perfect carrot, I would concentrate delicacies as broad bean and hyssop, but with an emphasis on smaller, more on using the best technique to fresh curds and beetroot; and vintage unusual bio-dynamic and new world cook the perfect carrot, so that the potatoes in onion ashes, lovage and wines that are crisp and light, but we’ll cooking wouldn’t be in your face, but wood sorrel. The latter is made by also have interesting British beers, you’d still be eating amazing food.” cooking a type of pink fir potato ciders, juices and infusions,” says L’Enclume’s menu has developed in a low temperature water-bath Simon. “Cumbria has 36 independent into an expression of its locality. with rapeseed oil, garlic, herbs and breweries and we sell around 30 Where possible, everything is seasonings, before serving it warm different beers at L’Enclume. I think produced locally – much of it on the on an onion puree with little dots of at Roganic we’ll offer beer from all restaurant’s own 15 acre farm – from lovage cream. Richly caramelised around Britain,” he enthuses, with the rapeseed oil used instead of olive onions are mixed with onion oils a dreamy look in his eye. oil, to Herdwick lambs’ tongues and and maltodextrin and scattered over As he talks about making fruit wild dandelions. forget lemons – the top to create the effect of onion juices and infusions, as well as any acidity in the food has to come ashes. The dish is finished with pretty sparkling ‘wines’ such as elderflower from a British ingredient, such as little lovage twigs (dehydrated and ‘champagne’, I realise that this is verjuice, cider vinegar or buttermilk. deep fried lovage stems), tiny slices of a chef whose mind buzzes with So, is Roganic going to be a taste of deep fried potato and delicately sour endless culinary possibilities. He is Cumbria in Marylebone? “No, not wood sorrel. In other words, this is not someone who can be tied down. really,” says Simon. “for a start, I’m not the sort of dish you’d just throw So this September you might find giving Ben Spalding, who is going together at home. yourself being offered a glass of to be my head chef here, a free hand Half of the kitchen staff at Roganic hawthorne blossom ‘champagne’ at about who and where he orders from. will come from L’Enclume, with Roganic. But then again, you might It seems hypocritcal to bring food all Simon wanting to ensure that the not. You may find instead that he’s the way down from our biodynamic emphasis on supportive team work taken a completely different path, farm in Cumbria when he could buy and a calm working environment is such as specialising in southern ales. it more locally, but the food is going replicated in his latest venture. Much will depend on how his London to be British, predominantly organic This is, he says, essential if you want clientele respond to his latest venture. and very seasonal. We’ll change the to maximise creativity while using At the moment, he and Ben menu every week.” high tech culinary methods. have penciled in some ideas for He does intend to bring down Roganic’s menu is scattered with delicious sounding tasting menus certain specialist ingredients from references to herbs, flowers and for the next couple of months. Cartmel, such as Good King Henry, wild plants. Who could resist flaky In August, for example, you can a hardy spinach-like plant which crab and mallow cream, young expect to be offered sea urchin roe thrives on the farm, or flowers such with rye bread, chickweed and apple; as scented pinks, ox eye daisies, violas LINKS along with cured monkfish cheek and chamomile. and charred red onion, dill and Simon plans to have a single 10 Roganic courgettes; creamed chicken of the course tasting menu for dinner 19 Blandford Street woods (a type of mushroom) with (£80), with a shorter version for 020 74860380 cider vinegar and dandelion, and salt lunch (£40). The restaurant is going roganic.co.uk baked plums, meadowsweet granite, to be restricted to 30 covers, with the sour cream and muesli. 51—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL fOOd

One of Simon’s beautiful dishes from his Lake District restaurant, L’Enclume So, why Marylebone and why sign up for just two years? Simon pauses before explaining that there are many reasons behind the idea. He and his partner Penny Tapsell were offered the last two years of the Michael Moore lease and found that they could afford it themselves without having to involve other backers. This allows them to dip their toes into the London market and see how they’re received without any great risk. The restaurant needs redecoration, but they can keep their costs down by using their beautiful Italian furniture from L’Enclume, which is being replaced with locally made chairs and tables, hewn from Cumbrian oak. Coming to London is more complex. It’s clear that Simon Rogan feels that he’ll only get the recognition his food warrants if he comes south, but there’s more to it than that. “In a way Penny and I are using the business to pay for a London life,” he says. “We want our son to go to school in London, and Penny’s going to run the business from London rather than Cumbria, as it doesn’t really matter where the office is,” he explains. As to Marylebone, they nearly got a restaurant here two years ago, but it fell through. “The area is a real jewel with its local feel and the sheer quality of shops and artisan food suppliers,” he says. Last, but by no means least, it turns out that they can stay with friends who live in the area until they find their feet. As we finish our tea, Simon pulls out his pad to jot down some notes. As he does so, well-thumbed seed catalogues and menu notes drop out onto the table. “It’s sad, I know,” he says, “but I love reading seed catalogues.” “No,” I reply, “they make wonderful Simon pulls out his pad reading,” thinking as I say it that and as he does so, some well they might inspire some even more wonderful eating. I wonder what scarlet thumbed seed catalogues drop ball turnip and sugar snax carrots out onto the table. ‘It’s sad, actually taste like? Luckily, they’re I know,’ he says, ‘but I love listed on the menu. Anyone for scarlet reading seed catalogues.’ ball turnip baked in salt, smoked yolk, blite and wild mustard, or sugar snax carrots with ham fat and nasturtiums? 52—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FOOD Image: Joe Fox Image: 53—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FOOD

Michelin-starred chez Bruce, cooked FOOD & ME at claridge’s and ran the Four0nine kitchen in clapham. satti was the TOM McNEiLE, senior pastry chef at Pied a Terre, MD OF L’ATELiER DEs chEFs which has two Michelin stars. Andy Press worked with Gary Rhodes for many years and we have a fantastic Peruvian chef called Fabricio cano Davila. These guys are real pros.

Have you always loved food? When did you join L’atelier des Chefs? What sort of courses do you offer? Yes. i would describe myself as a good November 2009. i heard about The range is huge. Our shortest home cook, though i’m nothing the position, in a roundabout way, course is the cook, Eat and Run, special – i’m definitely not a chef. Food from Francois Bergerault, one of where you spend 30 minutes in the for me is important. My brother eats the founders of L’atelier des chefs. kitchen, while our longest is the four- cheese three times a day, because he it appealed to me on every level. it hour Grande cuisine Master class. has no interest in food; it’s fuel, nothing quickly became apparent that i was We show our courses on the website more. But i like a bit of flavour and to interviewing for the role of managing for 28 days. if you were to look now use food the way i believe is correct. it’s director, and the opportunity to run you’d see 160 courses. probably wrong – Andre our head chef a business based around a passion of would probably kill me. mine was far too attractive. Do you do special themes? We do almost everything you can Have you always run a cookery school? Tell us about the business. think of: French, italian, sushi, No, in a previous life i was a salmon it was set up in Paris in 2004 by baking, fish, meat and vegetarian. fisherman in northern Russia, brothers Francois and Nicholas One that seems to be really popular spending six months of the year in Bergerault. They had noticed that is British classics – we clearly love our the Arctic circle – 24 hour daylight, over the generations the French had food and people want to learn how to -40c. i ate nothing but salmon – slightly fallen out of love with cooking cook it a little better. fried, boiled, frozen. And it was a very and that recipes weren’t being passed exciting time. i was in my early 20s and down. L’atelier des chefs took off You run courses for children. Is that wise? was convinced i was James Bond. very quickly and we now have 17 units For me, it’s really important. My son is in France. We have a joint venture in 15 months old and will eat anything, How did that come about? Dubai and the unit here in London. but i know the stage will come when After i left university, i wanted to travel. he’ll turn his nose up at certain foods i heard about a company running Who is the cookery school aimed at? for no apparent reason. But my wife salmon fishing up there, soi went Literally anybody. it’s not vocational. and i are adamant that when he’s old for an interview. i signed up for night We’re not going to turn you into a enough to sit at the table he’s not going school courses in motor mechanics chef, but what we will do is show you to have different food to us. Working and Russian, so that at the interview how to do recipes differently and with children is great. We teach them i could say: “Yes, i’m doing motor how to expand your repertoire. They to cook real food, for example, salmon mechanics. Yes, i speak Russian.” They will teach you how to make food en croute. Recently we had local sent me out there and it was fantastic, on a daily basis and show you that schoolchildren making fish fingers. though it scared the hell out of me. i food isn’t always expensive, doesn’t The children took the gujons of had a very nasty experience with a bear, always take hours to make, but can be pollock and put them through flour, which convinced me to leave. so i came ultimately delicious. if you’re shown egg and breadcrumbs. My chef then back to England and got a job in the how to do things by an expert then cooked them in the oven. They were city as a currency trader. they become very simple and second the politest clients we’ve ever had. nature. You go home and cook for How long did you work in the City? your family and friends, and your LINKS For just under four years. i have food is better and you’re healthier. an entrepreneurial mind – it’s in L’atelier des Chefs the family – but that spirit wasn’t How good are the teachers here? 19 Wigmore Street necessarily welcome. i was looking second to none. Andre Dupin, who 020 7499 6580 after people’s money and it was quite heads up the brigade, is an absolutely atelierdeschefs.co.uk dry, staid and pedestrian. amazing chef. he was at the 54—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FOOD

World of Wine

WINE CONSULTANT ROBERT GIORGIONE TAKES A BREAK FROM hIS TOUR OF ThE WORLD AND LOOKS TO OUR OWN ShORES INSTEAD

You have to admit, there’s probably local farmers’ market, reading with English wine enthusiast and nothing more ‘British’ than a good a menu or browsing through Marylebone resident Julia Stafford. old royal wedding. According to my a wine list, you can come away The combination of chalk limestone sources on the grapevine, the great with more information than ever and clay in the Downland area of house of Pol Roger (the personal about the food and drink that you England bears an uncanny similarity favourite tipple of Sir Winston consume. Television programmes to the Champagne region. As pointed Churchill) was served at the wedding are dedicating themselves to out by owner Mike Roberts the reception of Prince William and British produce, and chefs vie for location of the vineyards is actually Princess Catherine, but apparently prominence in promoting the cause. closer to the region than it is to Luton. the award-winning English wine Within these shores we have truly The RidgeView “Merret” sparkling produced by Chapel Down in Kent delicious produce, which deserves wine is named to commemorate a also got the royal nod of approval. In to be celebrated. We enjoy amazing notable Englishman, Christopher fact, it has also been known for the English asparagus, legendary Jersey Merret, who produced sparkling Queen herself to be particularly fond Royals and delicious seasonal fruits wine by what is now known as the of Nytimber, the now iconic vineyard such as rhubarb, gooseberries, ‘traditional method’ some 30 years in Sussex. strawberries and raspberries. Britain before the legendary Dom Perignon This is an amazing endorsement also has talented cheesemongers, did the same in Champagne. for any brand and is surely a butchers and fishermen, artisans and Christopher Merret’s papers marketing boffin’s dream. I’m winemakers, who have all learned describing his findings were archived sure that during the run up to the their craft. For me, these are the real at the Royal Society in London wedding, the great and the good unsung heroes and their produce in 1662. Champagne has its own of the wine industry would have should always be the star of the show. protected and de-limited region of been pitching their finest vinous To make this food complete, I origin and Appellation Controlee wares to the palace. In my opinion, sincerely believe that we should try status, and I sincerely believe that we it is extremely poignant and entirely to at least pay more attention to the should call an English sparkling wine appropriate that an English producer wines of this country. Much has been “Merret”, not only because it has its was among those that got the nod, as written about how our wines have the own place in history and trademark, we are now genuinely producing great potential to be world beaters. Already wines in this country. Like our Royal within a short space of time, a small LINKS Family, some of them are truly world- handful of vineyards have won some class. Moreover, I sincerely believe that very prestigious awards and much Robert’s blog the Bacchus grape has the potential to acclaim. No wonder the Champenois robertgiorgione.com be an English success story in a similar themselves have apparently thought twitter.com/robertgiorgione vein to the New Zealanders with their about purchasing land within south- Consultancy, advice and bespoke tastings Sauvignon Blanc. east England to convert into vineyards [email protected] Nowadays, more attention is for the production of sparkling wine. being paid to the provenance of Earlier this year, I visited award- Robert’s first book, An Epicurean Odyssey ingredients and the importance winning vineyard RidgeView in – A Road Trip Around New Zealand, is out of ‘locavore’. Just by scanning your Ditchling, Sussex. I went there now. Visit his website for details 55—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL FOOD

which clearly demonstrates its vinous 2007 (64% heritage, but also makes perfect Chardonnay, 22% Pinot Noir, 14% sense. I propose we get behind the Pinot Meunier) – dominant fruit Merret cause. character with chardonnay element Sloping towards the South Downs, bringing some tropical notes. Will RidgeView’s soils are influenced by age beautifully for 3-4 years and the natural limestone and chalk of would match English asparagus the region. The winters are mild extremely well. and the high, undulating hills to the south keep the micro-climate dry 2007 Cavendish (25% Chardonnay, and positively warm in the summer. 14% Pinot Noir, 41% Pinot Meunier) The vineyards grow the three classic – deep golden colour with a lovely grape varities that create the finest fine mousse. Pinot dominance brings sparkling wine: Chardonnay for depth and complexity. Fresh and freshness, backbone and finesse, floral, with plenty of red fruits and Pinot Noir for body and depth and delicious length on finish. Should Pinot Meunier for richness of fruit work well with smoked salmon. and an elegant floral quality. The state-of-the-art winery includes a 2007 Fitzrovia (46% Chardonnay, purpose-built underground cellar 32% Pinot Noir, 22% Pinot Meunier) where the wines can mature gently in – delightful light salmon pink perfect conditions, with great care, colour and a lovely rose wine. The and end up as wonderful RidgeView Chardonnay in the blend brings Merret wines as a result. finesse to match a fine mousse. The RidgeView was established during balance of the Pinots add structure to the mid-1990s, began commercial the palate. Perfect as an aperitif. sales in 2000 and immediately won numerous national and international 2006 Grosvenor (100% Chardonnay) awards. By 2003 its status was affirmed Blanc de Blanc – light gold colour with by its wines winning medals in Paris a very fine texture. The nose displays and listings in the French hachette freshness, delicacy and elegance with publication 1000 Vins du Monde. some toasty nuances. Fruity with a The ultimate recognition came long, clean and persistent finish with in 2005 when RidgeView Merret deliciously mouth-watering acidity. “Bloomsbury” won the trophy for the This wine has real versatility as it has best bottle fermented sparkling wine the freshness to act as the perfect in the world at the International Wine aperitif, yet I reckon would be great and Spirits Competition. with some cheeses. Recently, I tasted Mike and Tamara Roberts the 2000 vintage in magnum and it showed us around the vineyards was superb. and winery and very eloquently answered our probing questions. 2006 Knightsbridge (51% Pinot Later on, we ventured back to the Noir, 49% Pinot Meunier) Blanc de tasting room to sample the range. Noirs – ripe black grapes provide a They have given the names of each full round nose with a generous and cuvee something quintessentially well-balanced mouth feel. This wine English. At the estate they produce would work well with fish. five wines: “Bloomsbury”, “Fitzrovia”, “Grosvenor”, “Knightsbridge” and, Without doubt, the retailer for you good people of Marylebone, that carries the best selection of “Cavendish”. I reckon little English wines is Waitrose. Its range touches like that add extra special includes RidgeView, Chapel Down, provenance to the wines and make hush heath Estate “Balfour” Rose, the occasion more memorable. Nytimber and Primrose hill labels. 56—MArYLEBONE JOurNAL HISTOrY

THE DukE AND THE DANCEr WHEN THE EArL OF OrkNEY WED A SHOWGIrL IN A MArYLEBONE CHurCH, ALL THE TALk WAS OF THE NOTOrIOuS DukE WHO GAvE HEr AWAY BY TOM HuGHES

The beautiful Nash church of All On her wedding day, Connie was The theatrical press dubbed her Souls, Langham Place has seen many 27, if one accepts that she was born “The Child.” society weddings in its 186 years. Few in 1865. Her parentage was always a Sadly, for a maturing actress, there have been quite such clandestine mystery. It was said her mother took were few parts in the West End that affairs as the nuptials of 19th July in “theatrical laundry”. Her father, included a need to skip rope. But 1892, when the Earl of Orkney if not the Duke, was perhaps a civil Connie could always rely on her beauty. quietly married Miss Constance engineer who rarely came around. She was possessed of what one of her MacDonald. That was the bride’s As a little girl, Connie’s cherubic numerous admirers described as name on the register, but she was beauty had attracted the interest “liquid blue eyes”. John Hollingshead, known behind the footlights as of a popular designer of Christmas legendary impresario of the Gaiety the “celebrated burlesque actress” cards. Her face, surrounded by holly, Theatre, soon employed Connie in Connie Gilchrist. For a time at bows and other holiday flummery, his burlesque extravaganzas. The least, she held the unenviable (but sold thousands of cards annually. adorable ingénue would innocently traditionally transitory) title of “the Lewis Carroll, whose eye for a pretty deliver her lines – usually featuring the most notorious woman in London”. little girl was quite well-developed, most ribald double-entendres. And Adding to the sensational events thought her “one of the most did I mention her legs? The occasional of this summer Tuesday morning, beautiful children in face and figure flash of Connie’s appendages was the bride was given away by the Duke that I have ever seen”. enough to fill the boxes every night of Beaufort, a rakish octogenarian When Connie outgrew the toddler with her gentleman devotees. Alas for variously described as Connie’s phase (and Carroll’s interest), her Connie’s long-term career, she had no erstwhile lover, protector, or, whisper mother put her on the stage. She voice. One of the few critics immune it, even her father. The wedding starred in children’s entertainments to her appeal thought her singing was breakfast was held just a few steps and pantomimes. She also won shrill and her speech was shrewish. away from the church, off Portland acclaim for her facility in the greatly And so she mostly danced, behind Place, at 4 Duchess Street, where underestimated stage talent of rope those eyes and on those legs. Connie had resided in well-furnished skipping. So renowned had she One of those stage-door admirers Marylebone comfort for most of a become that she was asked to pose stood out. The Duke of Beaufort decade, all of which had been openly for Whistler. In 1877, he painted her seems to have been a jolly old sort, if paid for by the Duke, who was also a (with her skipping rope) as The Gold you like your peers with a little less of frequent visitor. Girl – a Harmony in Yellow & White. the noblesse oblige about them. His 57—MArYLEBONE JOurNAL HISTOrY 58—MArYLEBONE JOurNAL HISTOrY

THE DukE AND THE DANCEr

household. The arrangement excited crowded. The groom’s parents were a good deal of comment, almost all in attendance. The two official of it of the censorious kind. When witnesses were the bride and groom’s she rode in rotten row, it was a scene respective solicitors (a rather crass not to be missed. The men ogled, bit of business, one would suggest). the women tutted. Connie lived Of course, the Duke was there in Duchess Street for more than a to walk the bride down the aisle. decade, while the Duke kept rooms As mentioned, there had been nearby, generally a short walk away, whispered speculation that Connie often in Mortimer Street. As Connie’s was his daughter, as if perhaps Edmond was a year or two theatrical talents began to wane, her that put a rosier tint on the Duke’s younger than Connie and name became less common on the interest in her welfare. However, that bill. She was now more likely to be morning, on the license, Connie – at least according to the seen riding with the hunt in Melton swore to be the “daughter of David London correspondent of Mowbray. She thoughtfully eschewed Gilchrist, civil engineer, deceased”. the New York Times – he pursuing the Badminton foxes, out of These are not questions for a was a ‘flat-skulled, vacuous respect for the Duchess. wedding day. A reporter from the In the Duke’s defence, he always Penny Illustrated Paper had dashed young noodle’ observed all the proprieties of good to the scene and wrote later that conduct in public, as he understood Connie looked “very well indeed” in them. Connie was always suitably a dress of blue bengaline with puffed chaperoned when on her hunting velvet sleeves and a “very becoming weekends. It was understood by straw hat”. She also displayed a quite any young swell who wished to sizeable diamond brooch (said to be be introduced to Connie that he from the Earl but possibly a parting splendid home was at Badminton, must first approach the Duke for gift from the Duke?) It was a small Gloucestershire where he was known permission. This brings the story but happy group that took the short to all as, simply, the Duke. The back to All Souls, Langham Place, walk to 4 Duchess Street for the Duchess also kept her establishment in the summer of 1892. wedding breakfast. The Earl and his at Badminton and rarely came to For some months that year, new Countess would leave that night London. On one famous occasion, there had been talk in the clubs of for Minehead and their honeymoon. a portrait arrived at Badminton. a romance. While in Leicestershire, It’s always preferable to end The Duchess asked that it be brought Connie had been seen more than a romance “happily ever after” to her – it was the painting of an once in the company of Edmond and, in this case, it seems to be an actress (it may have been Connie). Walter Fitzmaurice, the 7th Earl of accurate statement. Her Duchess With that phlegm that only a Duchess Orkney, a Scottish peer. Edmond was Street home was given up. The Earl can display, she told the butler, a year or two younger than Connie and Countess settled in the Home “His Grace will want that placed and – at least according to the London Counties at Stewkley, their country in his room, perhaps.” correspondent of the New York house near Leighton Buzzard. The Duke was a famous four- Times – he was a “flat-skulled, vacuous Connie grew flowers and grew stout. in-hand coachman in his day, a young noodle”. regardless, the Duke The Earl, presumably, became an legendary supporter of hunting and had not stood in Cupid’s way. Some older “vacuous noodle”. They are field sports, and he keenly enjoyed had whispered that perhaps the remembered well in the area for their the company of actresses. Duke had wearied of the bills and good works and long lives. Constance, He lurked backstage at the Gaiety thought it time for Connie to make a Countess of Orkney died in 1946, the and elsewhere, taking his favourites good marriage. The radical journal, Earl lived until 1951. As for the Duke to supper, gifting them with jewellery The Star, put it plainly: “The heavy of Beaufort, he died (fittingly) before and maybe something nice from expense is more than a Duke with one the end of the 19th century. The gout their corsetiere of choice. foot in the grave relishes in these days carried him off in 1899. One of the The Duke’s fascination with of agricultural depression.” Gloucestershire papers acknowledged Connie Gilchrist moved beyond the The wedding had not been that Puritan sectors of the public may odd supper. When she was only in her announced until the morning have found great fault with him, but late teens, he set her up at 4 Duchess of the ceremony. The curate-in- “we do not think anything petty, mean Street. He furnished the house charge, the rev Mr Legge would or unsportsmanlike was ever alleged and superintended the domestic officiate. All Souls was not overly against him”. 59—MArYLEBONE JOurNAL ADvErTISING

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level of development and progress challenging it helps enormously.” possible. Use as much variety as Profile At Baker Street Counselling sessions possible (swimming, jogging, are 50 minutes and can either be short weights, circuits), looking to or long term. Miki can see clients during train two to four times per week the day or evening – even sometimes on a consistent basis. With golf, at weekends – which allows them to consistency is the key. fit counselling around work and family commitments. During each one-to-one » Sound body strength and stability session Miki offers them a confidential, are very important in improving impartial space to explore their your golf. Resistance training, difficulties. This allows the client to see using body weight exercises or problems from a different perspective, gym training with free weights to better understand themselves and is excellent for developing these others and to find strategies to cope and abilities. make positive changes. Miki Hildebrand has been a practising » It is important to continue playing MIkI hIlDeBRaND ON hOW therapist for 20 years. She was originally while you improve your fitness. BakER stREEt couNsEllINg a volunteer for the Barnet Bereavement this will allow you to take the caN OffeR NeW PeRSPectIveS Society. “I worked for them at first on physical training improvements a voluntary basis and liked it so much you have made and integrate them It’s good to talk. This is certainly that I just continued on to do it as a with the specific technical skills and the professional experience of Miki proper three-year course. The course tactical abilities required for overall Hildebrand MBAC Accredited Counsellor was psychodynamic, initially, but they golfing success. UKRC, the founder and practising do teach all of the other methods and therapist at Baker Street Counselling. theories because not everyone fits one » Make sure that when you get to Miki sees clients struggling to cope with system and you have to work with what the course you physically prepare a wide range of issues. the client is bringing to you. And it might yourself to play. Ideally perform “I deal a lot with relationships – be just something like how to deal with some simple joint mobility those coping with separation, divorce, the in-laws when they come at Christmas movements followed by basic bereavement or just having difficulties time. So they don’t want to go back to exercises to work major muscle with their partner or a colleague for their childhood necessarily. They want groups, and then active stretches for example,” she says. Others may be the strategies for helping them to cope.” the areas specific to the golf swing. suffering from depression, anxiety, Miki has always worked closely with try to perform 10-15 minutes of an eating disorder, facing problems the medical profession. “I’ve worked as pre-play preparation before you surrounding sexual identity or may be a counsellor at four different surgeries hit any balls. aware of unresolved issues from the in north west London,” she says. “Most past which keep resurfacing. There can surgeries have at least six doctors plus » to get the maximum benefit also be a great deal of stress caused by their locums, so whatever they send in from your golf conditioning retirement – particularly for men. you learn to deal with. It’s very front line, efforts, seek out specialists to “Men often don’t realise the impact and it’s exciting and humbling as well.” design your training. having a that retirement will have on them,” says Miki knows just how beneficial qualified team assess your strengths Miki. “Women can somehow diverse counselling can be. “It’s very and weaknesses allows your differently to men. Men almost feel their empowering to know where a problem conditioning regime to be fine identity goes when their job goes, and has started from, how to deal with it, tuned specifically to you for the I think that if they can plan for it then it how to look forward and not always look best results. helps them enormously.” in the past. People do need to know So who are Miki’s clients? “Absolutely there is somewhere to go to when they Exercise scientist and fitness coach Jon anybody,” she says. “Anyone who feels need help.” Denoris is the owner of the Club Fifty One they have a problem – no matter how personal training studio. small. People will often say: “‘I know Baker Street Counselling it’s silly, but…’ But it isn’t silly if it Baker Street Club Fifty One bothers you. Talking things through and 020 7724 2191 51 New Cavendish Street hearing yourself say the problem, and 07817 322 515 020 7258 8456 then working together to find a way of bakerstreetcounselling.co.uk clubfiftyone.co.uk 64—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL hEALth thE thIRD WAY

Viel Richardson pays a visit to were missing,” he explains. “Energy not mended, changing rooms a Marylebone’s newest and most was one. When you go into many bit grubby, machines a bit worn. It spectacular-looking gym and finds out large gyms, even though people didn’t feel like walking into high about energy, architecture and why one of are expending a lot of energy the quality spaces. So here we have used the rooms looks just like his old school hall atmosphere is flat, So people leave the highest quality finishes, we have thinking that the industry as a whole the best machines we can get, and I’m not really sure what to expect doesn’t provide very good service. we replace them before they get as I approach the glistening new We want people to feel energised worn out. We also look for different entrance to the third Space gym from the moment they arrive and types of machine to help reinforce on Bulstrode Place. I mean, just throughout their workout. We also that sense of energy and interest. what exactly is a 5-star gym? Inside, want people to smile while they are Crucially it is also about looking for the space is bright, spacious and here, to have fun. When they smile the highest quality staff. We go to shiny, with machines waiting for the people feel better and more positive great lengths to find the best people attention of a horde of dedicated about whatever they are doing. we can and then invest in their fitness members in pursuit of the hence things like the retro gym here training to provide the best possible body beautiful. So later when seated or the climbing wall in Soho. service from the moment you walk opposite Eric Dunmore, CEO of “We also wanted to bring a real into reception.” the company, I ask him what it’s all sense of quality to the place. We felt this attention to the atmosphere about. “Our ambition was to bring that even in the high end clubs, that is reflected in the airy feel of the into the sector things that we thought quality feel was missing – things place. It turns out that this was more 65—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL hEALth

It does not feel like things have just James’s presence here is especially been shoved in a corner, or as many useful as his special area of interest things squeezed in as possible.” is the retro gym, a style of training this positive flow of energy that had been attracting attention that Eric and Dan emphasise is from industry insiders and the also reflected in the way that those general public alike. It is based on machines are laid out. “the spin those tarnished wooden frames and class area is on a raised platform in fraying ropes familiar to generations a corner with the trainer facing out of children from school gyms across into the gym. Behind the spin cycles the land. we have arranged most of the rest of “It’s a bit more creative,” James tells the machines facing the spin class. me. “Climbing the rope is a challenge It means other members can tap in – it becomes a real objective, and to the energy generated by the class. people work really hard towards that, It becomes a shared experience. making huge strides in their general there is a great feeling of sharing, fitness. Also the retro gym is not so and hopefully from that a feeling of intimidating because of the familiar community develops.” feel of the equipment. People can Queuing for machines is one go over and under the bars, up and aspect of community life that down the ropes, hang off the bars. members will not have to indulge It’s all a bit more fun, but a very in unless they wish to. “We are a effective training method.” 5-star outfit,” Eric says. “We will the third Space also has a always make sure that you are not in fully functioning medical centre, a position where you have to queue complete with full time GP, based for machinery. We don’t think it’s at its other gym in Soho to which appropriate that a member has to all members have access. “We work wait to use a piece of equipment with medical referrals, so if someone that is part of their programme. We has blood pressure issues we work ensure our members are experienced with information from their GP, with several types of training, so we also have the medical staff at there is always another way to keep the third Space who we consult,” moving if their chosen machine is James explains. “All this information busy. But we are very careful not to is available to me on request, so oversubscribe our membership so as I can keep an eye on things like than just a design choice as general not to overcrowd the space.” blood pressure, just to make sure manager James Lloyd explains. So what can the lucky few expect the member is keeping within set “One of the things we tried to do when they first arrive? James parameters.” was to make a great deal of use of Gilbertson, ex-marine and personal the medical centre also offers natural light to connect the different instructor is on hand to explain. services ranging from physiotherapy areas, so there is a really positive “When someone first comes in there to colonic hydrotherapy. Marylebone flow around the building,” he says. will be a chat about what they want also offers a permanently staffed “We saw the space as more than just to achieve, their exercise history, spa – which trainers can programme a place to put things. So we looked whether there are any medical issues into your fitness regime – and a 17m at the size as well as the type of that we want to consider. then we swimming pool. equipment we were going to bring in. go through some gait and posture So how has all this been going analysis, we also check core strength. down? “So far it has been brilliant LINKS It gives us a picture of how their body in Marylebone,” Eric says, and the is working, and can give them the others nod in agreement. “A real The Third Space best possible programme, whether camaraderie is already developing The Marylebone Hotel it is corrective, strengthening or here both within the staff and the Marylebone Lane cardio vascular fitness. About a members.” With the third Space, a 020 7042 6333 week later they come back and new kind of 5-star outfit, has arrived thethirdspace.com we have the programme ready in Marylebone, and the locals seem for them.” to approve. 66—MArylEbonE JournAl SPACE

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What was your brief at Cavendish working out what you can use them about seeing the opportunity. Mews South? for. it’s about thinking on your feet. this way you can create some really the project comprises four buildings like this develop as you go dynamic spaces that you hadn’t properties – numbers 5,6,7,and along. for instance, one wardrobe sat planned for. 8 – whereas the original site only next to a dormer. it created a useless contained two properties. our initial space, but we pushed drawers into The spaces feel light and airy. How did brief was to demolish both properties that space which opened sideways you achieve this? and to build new contemporary mews into the wardrobe, and suddenly we dropped a light well down the houses. it was quite an open brief, we we had some quirky but very front of each building by setting were initially just asked to see what useful storage. the internal entrance back by about we could get on the site. we decided on a larger scale, in the basement 1.5m from the external facade. this on creating four new properties fairly of the old number 6 there was an allowed us to get fresh air and natural early on. the site was about 22m wide existing right-of-way fire escape from light down to the basement levels. At and when you divide that by four a nearby building that we had to the rear of the buildings we put in you get a bay width of about 5.5m, maintain. it came through the centre light wells from the roof level down to which is fine for a house.d uring pre- of the ground floor, right in the the ground floor or basement levels. planning we found that parts of the middle of some very valuable space. this is recreated in the middle of the site were listed and we were asked by using some space regained from old plan with a generous staircase with westminster and English heritage to vaults, we re-routed the fire escape roof light at the top. the idea was to keep the front and rear façades of the via the ground floor level.t his left divide the properties in the middle old number 5. us with a very wide stairwell above with a generous stairwell with a large the new escape route, so we took the roof light. we used open risers for the How did you approach the use of space in opportunity to create a place to put stairs so that light can reflect down the project? statues, or plants, or to just sit. it sits into the heart of the property, and you start off with a clear idea of below a roof light, again bringing they also helped with the stack effect. what you want to do, how you want in natural light. the stair above this we have placed the bathrooms off to bring in the light and air. first we space is set away from the wall with this generous stairwell and made use placed the stairwells and the light glass in-fills allowing more light to of the natural light flooding down wells. After that, it is like a jigsaw – we flood down the wall into the heart by putting opaque glass onto the side put the main rooms front and back, of the plan. of the bathrooms. this means when and then designed the spaces in Again, it’s about finding an odd you are in your bathroom you still get between. Sometimes you end up with space and turning it into a delight. a generous amount of natural light, peculiar spaces, especially working it is the kind of thing that can only and still feel connected with what with existing buildings, so it is about happen as the project develops. it is going on outside. the stairwell is utilising them as best you can and is about staying open minded. it’s a hard-working part of the design, 67—MArylEbonE JournAl SPACE 68—MArylEbonE JournAl SPACE

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properties. in maximising the living space we added an extra floor at the top with a mansard roof, and changed the floor levels.t his meant the windows on the rear façade did not line up with the new floors. what we did was to push the rear façade back by about 1.5m, but only extended the lower floor, creating a gap that allows you to see into the upper. we then topped this new space with a roof light. the gap means the height of the windows is no longer an issue, and there is more light flooding into both spaces. So you have created quite a special triple height space while accomplishing the practical aims of increasing space and light in the living areas.

It has made for an interesting internal dynamics. Pushing the lower level back further than the upper one has created internal balconies, but we connect the two spaces with a substantial staircase at the back. but they are more than just steps, which i think is important. we have put lots of openings in and around the stairs for people’s books or art. it’s almost LINKS like setting a staircase into a room as a piece of furniture, somewhere The Howard de Walden Estate else to sit and enjoy the light flooding 020 7580 3163 in. it also created a much stronger hdwe.co.uk connection between the two levels.

So it was more than just a design choice? Absolutely, but it is a balancing act. not just a means of getting up and through the upper openings it is you have to keep in mind that if you down. it helps transform what could replaced by cooler air being drawn take out too much floor space you are otherwise be quite a gloomy space. in at the bottom. we make use of this reducing the living area and wasting by creating tall internal spaces with the client’s money. the rear light You just mentioned the stack effect. an opening at the top and then make wells may have been rejected or made What is this? sure that air can be drawn into them smaller by some clients in an attempt the stack effect acts like a chimney, from below. it is a system that has to preserve floor space, which is and is about getting fresh air to been used through the centuries to valuable, but then the design would enter and gently circulate through ventilate buildings. not work so well. but somebody is the house. hot air is less dense than going to live here, this is going to cool air and naturally rises as its There are also light wells at the rear of the be their home, what is the point of density drops. therefore you can house what are they for? chasing some iconic statement that increase the airflow in a space by they arose from the request to keep doesn’t work on a practical level? having openings at both high and the facades for number 5, though it is hugely important to visualise low levels – as the hot air escapes we have used the device in all the the final use of a space. So storage, 69—MArylEbonE JournAl SPACE

We have managed to create spaces that are flooded with natural light in what is a very tightly constrained building for example, is really important to How did you find working with the What has been your overall impression of me – so many modern day houses Howard de Walden Estate? the project? are designed without any storage. they were great to work with. they it has been a great pleasure to work So all the rooms are well served with see the value of good design and on. what i think i like best is the wardrobe space. we have also put in understand that it can add value to creation of new spaces. we have a sound system, with ceiling speakers the rentable space. but more than managed to get light into the centre all around the property that can be that, they are very open-minded. and the back of the properties, and controlled through a central hub. they are open to the new possibilities create spaces that are flooded with you plug in your MP3 player and you that can arise during the project, natural light in what is a very tightly have sound throughout the house. which is essential in getting the best constrained building. we have tried to there are also connection points for out of an existing building. it means make the space flow and interconnect. floor-standing speakers in various you can end up with aspects to the i thing we have created something rooms, so there are no speaker building that you never imaged at the quite unusual in a mews house. you cables. it is very important to make outset, but which really enhance the don’t expect to come into a mews sure these spaces work as homes. final space. house and find spaces like this. 70—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL SPACE: IN BRIEF Places of Interest OPEN THE JOURNAL’S REgULAR gUIDE TO THE BEST HOMES AND OFFICES SEASON AVAILABLE FOR SALE OR RENT IN THE MARYLEBONE AREA Many of Marylebone’s garden squares, which are usually only accessible to residents, will be throwing open their gates to the public on the weekend of 11th and 12th June as part of the Open Garden Squares Weekend. This London-wide initiative, featuring around 200 gardens in 22 London boroughs, offers people the chance to nose around some of the most historic and well looked after green spaces in the capital, many of which are hosting special events in celebration. Access to all the participating squares can be gained with a single ticket, costing £7.50 in advance or £10 on the day. Visit the website for detailed listings.

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£2 250 000

Portman Towers , W1 Fantastic Finish

A stunning 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment which has been completely refurbished throughout and is finished to a very high standard. Located on the 1st floor of this sought after development on George Street the property benefits from 2 balconies and 24-hour porterage.

Entrance Hall, Reception Room, Two Bedrooms, Two Bathrooms, Guest WC

Gross Internal: 116 sq m/ 1249 sq ft Leasehold: 76 years approximately

£2 100 000

1 Baker Street 020 7486 5655 Portman Square manors.co.uk London W1U 8ED [email protected] Wimpole Mews, W1 Newly refurbished

A newly refurbished four bedroom Mews House spread over the lower ground, ground, first and second floor. The property offers an open plan kitchen to reception with wooden floors, a large cinema/office on the lower ground, three bathrooms plus a garage. The mews is within walking distance to Marylebone High Street.

Two Reception Rooms, Four Bedrooms, Three bathrooms, Garage

Gross Internal 242 sq.m/ 2605 sq.ft approx Unfurnished

£2 700 per week

Wendover Court, W1 Designer Apartment

A bright and contemporary two bedroom flat on the second floor (walk up) of this purpose built building. The property benefits from wooden floors to the main areas, a bespoke shaker style kitchen, a bespoke designer bathroom and is minutes from Baker Street underground station and the fashionable Marylebone High Street.

Two reception Rooms, Two Bedrooms, One Bathroom

Gross Internal: 73 sq.m/ 782 sq.ft approx Furnished

£795 per week

1 Baker Street 020 7486 5655 Portman Square manors.co.uk London W1U 8ED [email protected] JEREMY JAMES & COMPANY 020 7486 4111 Over 30 years experience in Marylebone Village Residential • Medical • Management

WEYMOUTH MEWS, MARYLEBONE, W1 Mews house in Marylebone Village This fabulous three bedroom mews house boasts modern, bright interiors, three good-sized bedrooms and an enviable central location. Recently refurbished to an exquisite standard, the house is a bright and spacious living space around the corner from all the amenities of Marylebone Village. ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES OF: • Reception room • Kitchen / dining room • Three bedrooms • Three bathrooms • Garage £1850.00 per week

CAVENDISH MEWS SOUTH, W1 Newly Refurbished Mews House This newly refurbished three bedroom mews house has been completely renovated to an exacting standard and would be suitable for a family or sharers. Located in a quiet enclave close to all the amenities of Marylebone Village, the house benefits from an extremely high standard throughout with hardwood floors, bespoke kitchens and bathrooms. ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES OF: • Two reception rooms • Kitchen • Three bedrooms • Three bathrooms • Three terraces • Garage £2300.00 per week

33 New Cavendish Street, W1G 9TS www.jeremy-james.co.uk Fax: 020 7486 4637 Sales: [email protected] Lettings: [email protected]

Beautiful Lateral Apartment

New Cavendish Street, W1 York Street, W1 The apartment is offered in good condition throughout and benefits from An excellent one bedroom apartment located on the raised ground floor of over 2,650 sq ft with two superb South facing reception rooms overlooking this end of terrace Georgian House. The flat features an exceptional drawing Mansfield Street. This is truly Marylebone’s finest street location. room with high ceilings, Georgian features and an original fireplace. £3,450,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT £565,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT DRUCE ARE DELIGHTED TO ONCE AGAIN BE KEY SPONSORS OF THE MARYLEBONE SUMMER FAYRE, SUPPORTING THE TEENAGE CANCER TRUST

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Orchard Court Marylebone, W1 An excellent opportunity to acquire a beautiful lateral apartment set on the 4th floor of the highly sought after Orchard Court. The apartment has been remodelled and refurbished to a very high standard by the current owners. The apartment offers excellent entertaining space, master bedroom with En-suite, dressing room and 24hr uniformed porterage. Situated on Portman Square, Orchard Court is superbly located to the amenities of Selfridges, Hyde Park, Marylebone village and transport links. EntranceThe Regent, Hall • DoubleHallam Reception Street, W1Including Formal Dining Room • Master BedroomNottingham with En-Suite Place, and W1 Separate Dressing Room • Two Further Bedrooms Library/4thA rare opportunity Bedroom to• Familyacquire Bathroom a magnificent • FittedOrchard three Kitchen/Morning bedroom Court duplex Room apartment • Utility RoomA really • Guest bright Cloakroom apartmentMarylebone, • is 24 available hr W1Uniformed to purchase Porterage on the • Communal 3rd floor WITH Hot WaterLIFT!!! and Heatingapproaching • Access 3,000 to Portman sq ft with Square a stunning Gardens terrace,An excellentwith opportunity inTennis a beautiful to acquire Court a beautiful andGrade lateral apartment Children’s II setlisted on the 4th floor play of theThe highlyarea soughtaccommodation after Orchard Court. The apartment comprises has been remodelled and2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a reception refurbished to a very high standard by the current owners. The apartment offers excellent entertaining space, master bedroom with En-suite, dressing room and 24hr building comprising of only three lateral apartments.uniformed porterage. Situated on Portman Square, Orchard Court is superbly located to theroom amenities with of Selfridges, a Hydeseparate Park, Marylebone kitchen village and transport. links. LEASEHOLD Entrance Hall • Double Reception Including Formal Dining Room • Master Bedroom with En-Suite and Separate Dressing Room • Two Further Bedrooms PRICE: £5,350,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT £6,950,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT Library/4th Bedroom • Family Bathroom • Fitted Kitchen/Morning Room • Utility Room£739,950 • Guest Cloakroom • 24 SUBJECThr Uniformed Porterage TO • Communal CONTRACT Hot Water and Heating • Access to Portman Square Gardens with Tennis Court and Children’s play area LEASEHOLD PRICE: £5,350,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT

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Molyneux Street, W1 Wheatley Street, W1 Refurbishment Opportunity! Freehold house with garden! A charming house A unique opportunity to live in this first and second floor maisonette featuring is available to purchase in this quiet street on the western side of Marylebone. a 20 foot high ceiling in the reception with galleried study area. The apartment The house can be extended and enlarged subject to the usual consents. is located a stones throw away from the delights of Marylebone High Street. £1,535,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT £1,475 per week

Cavendish Mews South, W1 Devonshire Close, W1 A fantastic brand newly refurbished mews house in Marylebone. The house A charming one bedroom apartment on the first floor of this mews property, comprises of a master bedroom with ensuite bathroom, second double bedroom located at the end of this very sought after cobbled Mews Street. The property is with ensuite bathroom, third double bedroom with ensuite shower room. presented in very good decorative condition. Available furnished £2,300 per week £550 per week

Orchard Court Marylebone, W1 An excellent opportunity to acquire a beautiful lateral apartment set on the 4th floor of the highly sought after Orchard Court. The apartment has been remodelled and refurbished to a very high standard by the current owners. The apartment offers excellent entertaining space, master bedroom with En-suite, dressing room and 24hr uniformed porterage. Situated on Portman Square, Orchard Court is superbly located to the amenities of Selfridges, Hyde Park, Marylebone village and transport links. EntranceBlandford Hall •Street, Double W1 Reception Including Formal Dining Room • Master BedroomWeymouth with En-Suite Street, andW1 Separate Dressing Room • Two Further Bedrooms Library/4thA conveniently Bedroom located • Family first Bathroom floor studio • Fitted apartment Kitchen/Morning with floor-to-ceiling Room • Utility RoomA stunning • Guest two Cloakroom bedroom • 24apartment hr Uniformed available Porterage on the • thirdCommunal floor of Hot this Water new and Heatingsash windows • Access in to the Portman reception, Square the Gardens apartment with also Tennis benefits Court from and Children’sa modern playdevelopment area (with lift) benefitting from, 24 hour security, CCTV, concierge bathroom and separate kitchen with dishwasher. Available unfurnished. service, house keeping services, flat screen TVs, and many other features. LEASEHOLD PRICE: £5,350,000 SUBJECT TO CONTRACT £380 per week £825 per week

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Chiltern Street, Marylebone W1 Montagu Mews West, Marylebone W1 ADorset spacious Square, second Marylebone,floor refurbished NW1 mansion flat, living room, dining room, eat-in ADorset beautifully Street, presented Marylebone, 1st, 2nd and Marylebone3rd floor flat in W1a mews next to Bryanston Square, kitchen,ADorset spacious 3Square, bedrooms, apartment Marylebone, study, in this 2 bathrooms, superb NW1 development guest cloakroom, of unique 24hr period porterage apartments, receptionDorset Street,open plan Marylebone, to kitchen, 2 double Marylebone bedrooms, W1 2 bathrooms (1 en suite), roof terrace A spacious apartment in this superb development of unique period apartments, A beautiful owner’s own home on the 2nd floor of a period house, living room, £1,300large entrance per week hall, Furnished/reception, kitchen,Unfurnished 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. £975eat-inA beautiful per kitchen, week owner’s 2 partly bedrooms, own Unfurnished home study/3rd on the 2nd bedroom, floor of bathroom, a period house,guest wc. living room, large entrance hall, reception, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. eat-in kitchen, 2 bedrooms, study/3rd bedroom, bathroom, guest wc. £1,300 per week furnished/unfurnished £750 per week furnished/unfurnished £1,300 per week furnished/unfurnished £750 per week furnished/unfurnished

Ellerton House, Bryanston Square, Marylebone W1 Robert Adam Street, Marylebone W1 AnEllerton elegant House, 1st floor Bryanston apartment Square, overlooking Marylebone this famous W1 square in an exclusive ARobert newly refurbishedAdam Street, apartment Marylebone on the W1raised ground and lower ground floor, BeverstonAn elegant 1stMews, floor Marylebone apartment overlooking W1 this famous square in an exclusive MolyneuxA newly refurbished Street, Marylebone apartment on W1 the raised ground and lower ground floor, Beautifullydevelopment refurbished, with 24 hropen porterage plan dining and room private through underground to designer parking, kitchen, living/dining drawing Beautifulreception, five kitchen,storey house master in immaculate bedroom withcondition, en-suite reception bathroom, room, 2 kitchen/dining double room,development kitchen, with 3 double 24 hr porteragebedrooms, and 2 bathrooms,private underground guest cloakroom. parking, living/dining bedrooms,reception, kitchen,family bathroom. master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, 2 double room, studykitchen, area, 3 3 double bedrooms bedrooms, with en suite 2 bathrooms, bathrooms, guest guest cloakroom. cloakroom, integral garage room,bedrooms, entrance family hall, bathroom.4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, utility room, paved garden £1, 750 per week unfurnished £1,100 per week unfurnished £1,500£1, 750 perper weekweek Furnished/unfurnishedUnfurnished £1,750£1,100 per per week week Furnished/Unfurnished unfurnished Bryan Court, Seymour Place, W1 A bright and airy 2 bedroom, double reception apartment in excellent condition on the 1st floor of this small purpose built block situated within minutes walk to Marble Arch, Hyde Park and fashionable Marylebone High Street. Further benefits include a terrace overlooking quiet mews, long lease and low outgoings.

£895,000

Montagu Street, W1 An exclusive and opulently designed, 2 bed/2 bathroom apartment, situated on the third floor (with passenger lift), within a well maintained residential building in Marylebone. Uninterrupted views of a peaceful mews and in close proximity to the stylish boutiques of the Portman village, the exceptional shops of the Marylebone high street and the relaxing spaces of Hyde Park

£1,395,000

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A unique recently refurbished period house charlotte street, w1

Entrance hall  open plan kitchen/dining room  first floor double reception Savills Mayfair room  studio room  master bedroom suite  3 further bedrooms Charles Lloyd  further bathroom  guest cloakroom  utility room  patio  self contained [email protected] lower ground floor one bedroom apartment  365 sq m (3,936 sq ft) 020 7578 5100

Guide £4.5 million Freehold savills.co.uk

TWO NEWLY CONSTRUCTED MARYLEBONE TOWN HOUSES Shillibeer Place, w1

Entrance hall  first floor reception room  kitchen/family room Savills Mayfair  master bedroom with en suite bathroom  2 bedrooms (1 en suite) Claire Reynolds  shower room  guest cloakroom  comfort cooling  terrace  garage [email protected]  176 sq m (1,905 sq ft) and 180 sq m (1,938 sq ft) respectively 020 7578 5100

Guide £2.45 million Freehold savills.co.uk

a beautiful first floor flat in period building portland place, w1

Entrance hall  31’ reception room  study  kitchen  master bedroom Savills Mayfair with dressing area and en suite bathroom  2 further en suite bedrooms Claire Reynolds  guest cloakroom  253 sq m (2,725 sq ft) [email protected] 020 7578 5100

Guide £4.95 million Leasehold, approximately 100 years remaining savills.co.uk

an elegant five storey georgian townhouse Molyneux street, w1

3 bedrooms  double reception room  open plan kitchen  3 bathrooms  guest cloakroom  patio garden  self contained studio  204 sq m (2,196 sq ft)

£1,750 per week Flexible Furnishings

Savills Mayfair Leonie Bucher [email protected] 020 7578 5100

superbly located mews house woodstock mews, w1

2 en suite bedrooms  reception room  kitchen  guest cloakroom  garage  149 sq m (1,606 sq ft)

£1,950 per week Furnished

Savills Mayfair Leonie Bucher [email protected] 020 7578 5100 Outstanding Track Record

sold sold sold Upper Wimpole Street, W1 Bruton Place, W1 Fitzroy Square, W1 Guide £10 million Guide £4.25 million Guide £3.75 million

sold sold sold Chesterfield Street, W1 Meard Street, W1 Shillibeer Place, W1 Guide £3.5 million Guide £2.75 million Guide £2.5 million

sold sold sold Aldford Street, W1 Clarendon Place, W2 Curzon Street, W1 Guide £1.95 million Guide £1.65 million Guide £1.3 million

Savills Mayfair and Marylebone 36 North Audley Street London W1K 6ZJ 020 7578 5100

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MARYLEBONE

Marylebone Mews, Marylebone W1

A beautiful, well presented freehold mews house located in prime Marylebone village just moments away from the High Street. This fantastic property benefits from an abundance of light, private garage and large roof terrace.

Accommodation comprises: 2 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Reception, Kitchen, Utility, Dining Area, Study, Garage, Terrace

£3,950,000 Freehold Marylebone 020 7486 8866 [email protected]

MARYLEBONE

Devonshire Mews North, Marylebone W1

Charming traditional mews house with unique features throughout. Tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac location with prestigious properties surrounding, the house needs updating but is bright and spacious throughout.

Accommodation comprises: 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Reception, Kitchen, Study, Garage

£1,495,000 Leasehold Marylebone 020 7486 8866 [email protected]

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MARYLEBONE

Cavendish Mews South, Marylebone W1

A stunning, contemporary newly refurbished three bedroom mews house available unfurnished, or furnished by separate negotiation. Very high specification refurbishment, with solid oak flooring, double height ceilings and top of the range kitchen and bathrooms.

Accommodation comprises: 2 Reception rooms one with terrace, Eat in Kitchen, Garden Area, Master Bedroom with En Suite Bathroom and Terrace, 2 further Double Bedrooms with 2 Bathrooms, WC and Garage

£2,300 per week Furnished / Unfurnished by separate negotiation Marylebone 020 7486 8866 [email protected]

MARYLEBONE

Ossington Buildings, Marylebone W1

A modern two double bedroom apartment located in a quiet residential street behind Marylebone High Street. The property benefits from wooden flooring to the reception room and hallway, an open-plan kitchen, two double bedrooms, large bathroom and a private patio area.

Accommodation comprises: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, Open plan kitchen, Reception room and Private patio

£725 per week Furnished / Unfurnished by separate negotiation Marylebone 020 7486 8866 [email protected]

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Marylebone Journal - Feb 09.indd 1 13/03/2009 16:37:46 SOLD SOLD SOLD Devonshire Street, W1G Montagu Mansions, W1U Picton Place, W1U £240,000 £725,000 £995,000

Exceptional results in MARYLEBONE SOLD SOLD Let our knowledge, Barrett Street, W1U Bolsover Street, W1W £1,500,000 experience and successes £1,575,000 help generate the best result for your property in 2011. Please call us for a free and discreet market appraisal.

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Marylebone Street, Marylebone W1 A superb two bedroom penthouse apartment A rare opportunity to buy a 2 bedroom lateral flat on the Marylebone High Street. KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone This penthouse apartment is situated on the fourth floor offering quiet and secluded accomodation. [email protected] 020 7483 8349 SOLD2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, open plan reception/diningSOLD room and kitchen. SOLD Approximately 75 sq m (807 sq ft) Montagu Square, W1H Harley Street, W1G Wimpole Street, W1G £2,750,000Leasehold approximately 20 years £6,555,000 £6,950,000 Guide price: £675,000 * Asking prices quoted - many agreed at asking price or above (WER080032)

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258992_KF_MJ_FEB11.indd 2 24/01/2011 17:23 SOLD SOLD SOLD Devonshire Street, W1G Montagu Mansions, W1U Picton Place, W1U £240,000 £725,000 £995,000

Exceptional results in MARYLEBONE SOLD SOLD Let our knowledge, Barrett Street, W1U Bolsover Street, W1W £1,500,000 experience and successes £1,575,000 help generate the best result for your property in 2011. Please call us for a free and discreet market appraisal.

KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone [email protected] SOLD 020 7483 8349 SOLD Blandford Street, W1U Bryanston Square, W1H £1,850,000 £2,750,000

Blandford Street, Marylebone W1 A three bedroom apartment in the heart of the Marylebone Village KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone [email protected] A three bedroom apartment located on the second floor in this very popular modern SOLDdevelopment with secure underground parking,SOLD lift and porter, located moments from SOLD 020 7483 8349 the Marylebone High Street and Oxford Street. Approx 79 sq m (850 sq ft) Montagu Square, W1H Harley Street, W1G Wimpole Street, W1G £2,750,000Leasehold approximately 120 Years £6,555,000 £6,950,000 Price: £1,225,000 * Asking prices quoted - many agreed at asking price or above (MRY100051)

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Applicants are looking LET LET for a new home to buy 6,800 or rent in London Dorset Street, W1U Harley Street, W1G £775 per week £795 per week

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